What is the specific role of the Crisis Counselor?
There are a number of helpful tasks for the Crisis Counselor, but none of them include conducting debriefing or therapy services. Some of the critical roles for the crisis counselors include: • What tasks are not appropriate for the Crisis Counselor? • Assisting survivors in the identification and acknowledgement that dealing with new and complex organizations or agencies is difficult and can be very stressful; • Assisting in normalizing the experience; • Assisting survivors in organizing and prioritizing recovery tasks and external demands placed by recovery organizations; • Establish and maintain current information about a wide variety of recovery resources so the survivors can be appropriately referred; • Through counseling and training, help survivors obtain or maximize skills that will enable them to work effectively with recovery organizations. these skills may include communication, problem solving, conflict resolution, time management and stress management; • Representing the
