THE ROLE OF THE SCHOOL SOCIAL WORKER IN PREVENTING CRISIS SITUATIONS IN PRE-UNIVERSITY EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS
THE ROLE OF THE SCHOOL SOCIAL WORKER IN PREVENTING CRISIS SITUATIONS IN PRE-UNIVERSITY EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the counseling principles in crisis situations, with emphasis on how pre-university education institutions can prevent and intervene when such situations occur. Researchers such as: Hillman (2002), Dupper (2003), Lines (2006), Openshaw (2008), Sandoval (2013), emphasize the fact that that students may also be affected by anxiety, depression, neuroses, suicide or self-injury -suicidal. In our country, there has been an increase in the number of juvenile mothers, cases of emotional and sexual abuse, rape, ill-treatment, consumption of alcohol and psychoactive substances among minors, addictions to digital games, even gambling, alcohol and other psychoactive substances, addiction to certain foods harmful to health, anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa. Victims of bullying can develop low self-esteem, depression and suicide attempts. For some students, it is necessary to work on the management of anger, aggression and acts of violence. All the previously mentioned situations, as well as any others, can be perceived by the students as extremely stressful and difficult to manage. They require the intervention of specialists at school: psychologists, school counselors, priests, specialists in pediatric psychiatry (if the situation requires) and school safety officers. The activity of the multidisciplinary team, made up of the aforementioned specialists, is certainly coordinated by the case manager, the school social worker, who becomes responsible for the speed and efficiency of the intervention, for each case separately.

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