Crisis Intervention - Precipitating Events
People sometimes face stressful or tragic events leading to a sense of crisis, often involving some sort of loss. Consider how you can help people with events leading up to a time of crisis. Let's not wait to intervene until people feel so helpless or hopeless they don't see a way out.
Precipitating events leading to a crisis could include:
Clicking on the links below the precipitating events will take you to articles on other sites or to one of our affiliate bookstores. While seeking to choose sites and books that are doctrinally sound, the Ministry Tools Resource Center makes no claim to total endorsement of any listing.
adverse pregnancy diagnosis, birth, or miscarriage
death of a loved one
- Comforting & Helping People Through Their Loss - Article
- Coping With Death and Grief - Articles
- Grieving the Loss of Someone You Love by Raymond Mitsch & Lynn Brookside
- A Grace Disguised by Gerald Sittser
- A Grief Observed by C. S. Lewis
- More resources on dealing with loss & grieving (under the 'comforting' tab on that page)
financial loss
- Financial CPR: 7 Steps to Avoid a Financial Crisis by James L. Paris & J. W. Dicks
- Financial Crisis - Group's Emergency Response Handbooklet Series by Group Publishing
- More resources on dealing with financial stewardship
job loss
- Confronting Unemployment
- Coping with Job Loss
- Making a Career Change
- When You've Lost Your Job
- More resources on dealing with the workplace
marital breakdown or divorce
- When the One You Love Wants to Leave: Guidance and Comfort for Surviving Marital Crisis by Donald Harvey
- My Friend is Struggling With . . . Divorce of Parents by Josh McDowell & Ed Steward
- More resources on dealing with marriage, separation & divorce
mid-life insecurities
- Midlife Living - Articles
- Halftime by Bob Buford
- Lost In The Middle: Midlife and The Grace of God by Paul David Tripp
- Men in Mid-Life Crisis by Jim Conway
- Midlife Manual for Men by Stephen Arterburn, John Shore
retirement
- Rethinking Retirement: Finishing Life for the Glory of Christ by John Piper
- When Christians Retire: Finding New Purpose in Life After Work by Dwight Hervey Small
- More resources on our senior years
serious or chronic illness
- Spiritual Care: A Guide for Caregivers by Judith Allen Shelly
- Life On Hold: Finding Hope in the Face of Serious Illness by Laurel Brunvoll & David Seiler
- More resources dealing with sickness & being shut-in
tragedy (i.e. accident, fire, flood, earthquake, etc.)
- When Tragedy Strikes by Charles Stanley
- Trust & Tragedy: Encountering God in Times of Crisis by Tommy Tenney
- More resources on dealing with tragedies
The People Helping Ministry Manual helps you develop a starting point for preventing and preparing people for crisis.