A Guide to the Crisis Cycle

Cost: $5

“[This is] useful information that I can incorporate into my reports and recommended actions on completed cases.”
— Oregon State Abuse Investigator

Description:

Understanding the crisis cycle, and knowing how to respond at each stage of it, can dramatically improve your odds of helping someone de-escalate and avoid a crisis.

This guide explains the different ‘stages’ of a crisis, and for each stage it gives information about:

  • what someone’s rational brain capacity typically is

  • what someone's emotions and emotional regulation skill are likely to be

  • how someone's behaviors are likely to change

  • and what strategies someone’s support team should use 

This tool includes:

  1. An overview of the crisis cycle

  2. An explanation of:

    1. Baseline and proactive strategies

    2. Escalation and intervention strategies

    3. Recovery and de-escalation strategies

    4. Stabilization and re-regulation strategies