This video reviews short term and acute crisis care with long term counseling. Crisis Counseling deals with more immediate issues while long term counseling deals with long term therapy and growth and healing. Understanding the difference in these types of counseling and helping arts is important skills for counselors. The needs of a person in crisis are far different than the needs of a person undergoing healing and growth. In many ways, it is like a ER doctor performing emergency surgery while other doctors work on rehab and healing.

Please also review AIHCP’s Crisis Intervention Program and see if it matches your academic and professional goals. Please also review AIHCP’s multiple other behavioral health programs as well!