After completing your assigned reading from The Gift of Fear, discuss the role that intuition plays in crisis intervention. What is your response to de Becker’s approach and understanding of crisis? How does it relate to the content you read from your textbook?

Week 1 Discussion: Intuition and Prediction

Instructions

After completing your assigned reading from The Gift of Fear, discuss the role that intuition plays in crisis intervention. What is your response to de Becker’s approach and understanding of crisis? How does it relate to the content you read from your textbook?

• Describe at least one approach or concept related to prediction that was covered in Chapter 3 that you think would be most relevant to someone working as a helping professional. Explain why it’s important.
• As you formulate your response, make sure you are directly referencing content from both your textbook and The Gift of Fear.  

REFERENCES

Becker, G. D. (2010). Gift of Fear: Survival signals that protect us from violence. Little Brown & Company.

France, K. (2014). Crisis intervention: a handbook of immediate person-to-person help: Vol. Sixth edition. Charles C Thomas Publisher, Ltd.

Weekly Readings

• Book: The Gift of Fear and Other Survival Signals That Protect Us From Violence
  • Chapter 1: In the Presence of Danger
  • Chapter 2: The Technology of Intuition
  • Chapter 3: The Academy of Prediction
• Textbook: Crisis intervention: a handbook of immediate person-to-person help

• Chapter 1: Crisis Theory and the Philosophy of Crisis Intervention