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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 :
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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:
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Establishing contact-establishing trustfull relations
Strengthening personal identification
Structuring situation-tying fragments
Declining uniqueness
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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:
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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:
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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.