Decision in Paradise Pt2Join now to read essay Decision in Paradise Pt2Review of LiteratureCrisis Intervention and Brief TherapyGeorgia State UniversityBrenda MichealsJune 9, 2007This literature review evaluates the increase in the focus of crisis intervention in research and academia. As state in the article, “On Financial Crisis,” by Arjen Bojen, in the wake of events such as September 11th and Katrina, the crisis field has gained a great deal of relevance in both academic and practitioner circles. As a result, more funding has been given to policymakers and managers who have become interested in crisis research findings about the impact of crisis situations on people.
The article effectively demonstrates how several professional fields have merged to become a single research field. Since the crisis field is made up of a multidisciplinary field that draws from many disciplines such as disaster sociology, psychology, public administration, political science, international relations and management, the crisis field has evolved into specialized academic area. According to the article, research from these disciplines define crisis in terms of some basic threat to the core values of a system, necessitating urgent response under conditions of severe uncertainty. This analysis is consistent with Robert’s view of disequilibrium that occurs when a significant crisis happens in peoples lives. This multidisciplinary definition of crisis allows for communication between these academics generic crisis field.
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Many people argue that crisis is defined by “closing an internal rift. A fundamental disagreement between a certain and all of the scholars has led to a common understanding concerning how we make critical sense of this conflict. On the one hand, we recognize that these disciplines are fundamentally interconnected and are interdependent and can never be separated, but on the other hand, because we can create and maintain shared understanding of these disciplines, our collective understanding tends to fail. (See
Hence we seek a non-linearist version of crisis as a tool to allow communication between disciplines.) However, we should note that such an understanding cannot be made immediately, i.e. one needs to wait for the current crisis in order to avoid that moment of crisis.
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An important element of the discussion here is that this analysis is not done in isolation from each other. There is a strong community of experts who are all interested in developing more effective crisis training frameworks. The idea that crisis has been eliminated is a very important and valid claim that anyone with an interest in crisis would consider.
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Despite the fact that some of the issues presented in the article are so complicated that it requires considerable resources of one’s own expertise, no one has been able to do any kind of research in this field directly without some kind of professional-level assistance. There remain some outstanding scholars out there who contribute to this literature and would be helpful for anyone seeking to learn.
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A new way to get help with this issue is by taking a step to get to people who are well know about this topic on their websites – which will help us in our efforts to keep this issue and any other important conflict off the agenda.
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We also recently received an email from John T. Schmitt, Chief of Staff at the Foundation for Investigative Journalism, which said that no more than 6 research grants were made in this area last year; that in fact only 2 were funded during fiscal 2015.