Crisis can be described as a turning point that cannot be avoided. Crisis situation may be expected or unexpected, real or imagined, actual (like the death of a loved one) or potential (like the prospect that a loved one will die soon). Every crisis involves two characters- Danger or Opportunity. Crises are fitted with danger because they disrupt life and threaten to overwhelm the people who are affected. But crises also present people with opportunity to change, grow, and develop better ways of coping. Since people in crises often feel confused, they are more open to outside help, including help that comes from God and from the counselor. Even when they get counseling, some individuals try to ignore and evade the crisis, withdraw into irrational fantasies, give up in despair, or respond in socially unacceptable ways. Others react in healthier ways- they reevaluate the situation and look for creative, socially acceptable, reality based, and problem solving techniques that can help in the present crisis and add to the person’s capacity to deal effectively with future difficulties. Emotional and Spiritual crises are unavoidable turning points of life. To live is to experience crises. To experience crises is to face turning points that bring either growth and maturation or deterioration and continuing immaturity. The Christian counselor is in a vital position to influence which direction the crisis resolution will take.
Posted on: Sat, 28 Sep 2013 07:24:15 +0000
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