Crisis can be defined as a psychologic disequilibruim in a person who confronts hazardous circumstance that for him constitutes an important problem which he can for the time being neither escape nor solve with his customary problem-solving resources.
Crisis can be classified as either situational or maturational. A person experiences crisis when he perceived a stressful event as a threat to his equilibruim and when his usual adaptive coping mechanisms are not sufficient to handle the disturbing event. This is to say that the individual who finds himself in a state of disequilibrum due to the application and failure of his usual problem solving mechanisms when faced with hazardous and serious event may be considered to be in a state of crisis, with crisis as (a) human beings (b) teachers (c) administrator.
Man can be viewed as Physical, Social and Idea self. He constantly reacts to the stimuli in his environment. His ability to adapt is related to the stability of the state of his ego, functioning during crises which are constantly or persistently his primitive defenses in order to resolve the crisis and keep his state physically, mentally, socially and psychologically in form. It must be understood that being in crisis may give individual victim strength or it may affect his personality depending on how he handles the situation.
STAGES OF RESOLVING CRISIS
a. The Stage of Disorganization: This is the stage in which the hazardous event is perceived. It threatens ones ego and if not properly handled, can break one down totally. By making use of the problems-solving technique, one can go easily into the next stage of
b. Reorganization: with this stage, one is able to tap his potential strength and capitalize on it. He either becomes stronger or he become weaker depending on how she or he handles the situation and also the impact of the crisis on his ego
c. Resolution: Better strength or worse situation. Crisis that is badly handled will cause mental illness
Types Of Crisis
Situational crisis
Maturational crisis
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