A Life Space Crisis Intervention [LSCI]

LSCI is a model of reconciliation used in youth’s people life to turn a stressful and challenging personal situation into a learning experience.
This model is build around the conflict cycle [1. stressful incident, 2. student’s feelings, 3. student’s observable behavior, 4. adult/peer reaction] where the adult instead of mastering or giving the answers to the youth in question, it coach the youth helping them to use their own intelligence and strengths to solve the problem.
The LSCI has an abbreviated four step format:

1.Defusing the conflict
2.Building a time line of the conflict
3.Understanding what causes the conflict
4.Resolving the conflict.

1.Defusing the conflict
With defusing the conflict, the goal, before solving can begin, we must defuse strong emotions and lure the child back into communication. The first thing to do is for the adult to be in a total control of his or her emotions with out turning moralistic of judgmental, instead, helping the young person to become more compose and focus in what really happened.

2.Building a time line of the conflict
We want them to think in what really happened, it is necessary to listen very carefully and again don’t get judgmental and together figure out the time line of how the crisis unfolded. We need to be aware and listening to specific behaviors but also in feelings and thought at the crisis moment.

3.Understanding what causes the conflict
Knowing already what happened from our time line of the conflict, now we are better able to identify the central issue. Sometimes the problems are limited in scope, more often; the immediate problem is the latest in a string of similar problems.

4.Resolving the conflict
When we understand how conflicts develop, we are able to find better strategies for coping with such situations. Helping young persons reflects on a problem objectively enables them to see how their behavior has hurt others and what they can do to make amends.

LSCI model, in a future situation where I am going to have to deal with a crisis, that involves not just the young’s lives but the community as well, I will be necessary to sit and to discover together the real roots of the behave. To listen carefully and to give it time to the time helps in terms of find a solution; I must remember that this people is either a new believer, teenagers going through puberty, people with many other social problems, so just being part of their pain and show sympathy will help much better instead of shutting them down just like everybody else.
To listen to their complaining or listen to them figuring it out how the got to the point that they are talking with me in the office, help them with they growing process and will make more difference in the future.

I think that in a future situation also I will need to find a good helper to be part of this, to help the family as well, in this case my Co’s will be totally involve and we as team will work with the family and the youth and we all together will try to understand each other problems and together with the help of the Holy Spirit will get a answer.