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http://fdhr.tripod.com/ SCIETIFIC-PRACTICAL CONFERENCE Society & Psychological Support August 9-10, 1999, Tbilisi Sponsored by Norwegian Refugee Council Peculiarities of group crisis intervention VETA LAZARASHVILI, MANANA ROGOVSKAIA, NANA JIBGASHVILI, MARINA GEGELASHVILI, NANA AGAPISHVILI Centre for Social-Psycological Aid “Ndoba”, Tbilisi, Georgia Centre for Social-Psycological Aid “Ndoba” has been functioning from 1990 and is the first structure of social-psycological aid in Georgia, the author of new models of urgent social-psycological aid and psycho-social rehabilitation. During the period of it’s existance centre “Ndoba” has created various services of psychosocial aid.These services are : Two channels of Hot-Line – for adults and for children Out-patient service of psycho-social aid Rehadaptation clubs Crisis intervention brigades Psychological crisis is defined as internal disturbance of emotional balance of person, arising under the threat and provoking social-psychological desadaptation. Intensive negative emotions, feeling of loneliness, vagueness, hopelessness, helplesness, low self-esteem, state of ficsation on travmatizing situation, demobilization and difficulties with future orientation are characteristic features of this state. Process of crisis intervention (individual and group) consists of several main steps. Crisis intervention brigades of centre “Ndoba” followed these steps during working with IDP's from Gali region. State of crisis is more sharply expressed with these groups of IDP's, and that’s why it’s destructive for them. The steps of crisis intervention are: Establishing contact-establishing trustfull relations Strengthening personal identification Structuring situation-tying fragments Declining uniqueness Putting the crisis in common life context Declining sharpeness Directing behavior into the constructive flow According to our working experience during group crisis intervention with IDP groups revealed some preferences of brigade method in comparision with individual in this concrete situation. Group crisis intervention: Is effective in time and gives opportunities to work with individuals too. Strengthens group processes: identification of members with group and cohesiveness of group. Gives opportunities to group members for realizing stimulation of narrating and listening each other. Helps and makes easier processes of dissosiation of travmatizing situation. Encouraging processes in groups decreases irritation and srengthens crisis motivation – crisis overcoming tendences. As a result of group crisis intervention with IDP's from Gali region, we have got: stimulation and activization of personal resourses of group members, it makes easier constructive resistance to crisis, helps adoption of present and future planning process. Increased empathy among group members and orientation to cooperation. Via establishing cooperative relationships with crisis brigade and IDP's, decreased psychological distance.