Life Space Crisis Intervention (LSCI)
Life Space Crisis Intervention is an advanced, interactive therapeutic strategy for turning crisis situations into learning opportunities for children and youth with chronic patterns of self-defeating behaviors. LSCI views problems or stressful incidents as opportunities for learning, growth, insight, and change. This non-physical intervention program uses a multi-theoretical approach to behavior management and problem solving. LSCI provides a roadmap through conflict to desired outcomes using crisis as an opportunity to teach and create positive relationships with youth.
LSCI provides strategies for students who:
LSCI provides strategies for students who:
- Escalate incidents into no-win power struggles
- Distort reality
- Are self-abusive
- Engage in destructive peer relationships
- Lack social skills
- Show little conscience for aggressive behavior
Above is LSCI's conflict cycle:
- An incident occurs (frustration, failure, etc.) that ACTIVATES a troubled student’s irrational beliefs (e.g., “Nothing good ever happens to me,” “Adults are unfair!”), which in turn defines it as a stressful incident
- These negative beliefs and thoughts determine and TRIGGER the intensity of the student’s feelings.
- These intense feelings – not the student’s rational forces – DRIVE his or her inappropriate behaviors.
- The inappropriate behaviors (yelling, threatening, sarcasm, refusing to speak) INCITE adults.
- Adults not only pick up the student’s feelings, but also they frequently MIRROR the student’s behaviors (yell back, threaten, etc.).
- These negative adult REACTIONS increase the student’s level of stress, escalating the conflict into a self-defeating crisis.
- Although the student may lose this battle (i.e., he or she is punished), the student wins the war! His or her SELF-FULFILLING PROPHECY (irrational belief about adults) is REINFORCED. Therefore, the student has no motivation to change or alter the irrational beliefs or the inappropriate behaviors.
*Long Ph.D, Nicholas J., and Frank A. Fecser Ph.D. Life Space Crisis Intervention. LSCI, n.d. Web.
27 Feb. 2012.
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