Assignment Task: Consider the effects that traumatic experiences have had in your own life. Based on your experiences and all that you have learned in this course to this point, submit a personal reflection discussion post addressing what you have or could learn from exposure to trauma and crisis in your life. Pay particular attention to how this knowledge and experience can benefit you as a human service professional in crisis intervention and prevention. Use the following prompts to structure your submission:
1. What was the event and how was it a crisis?
2. What coping skills were used?
3. What resources were available?
4. What did you learn from this experience?
5. How might this experience influence your work as a human service professional?
6. Considering the characteristics of effective crisis professionals discussed in the James and Gilliland text (pgs. 23-24), what crisis interventionist characteristics do you currently possess, and what characteristics would you still need to develop?