Climate of human growth necessitates the understanding of terms like;

Human Growth refers, in context, to the development and increase in human capacity to perceive and react to their environment with efficacy. This term infers to the ability of individuals to make use of experiences, skills and their innate capabilities to deal with what life brings.

Climate, with regard to the inquest at hand, this refers to the conditions or aspects of the environment in which crisis occurs, is perceived and or dealt with. It includes socioeconomic and psychological triggers or stimulus, professional input, individuals' support system and the surroundings.

Necessary conditions for client’s growth

1). Empathy

It is the ability of a therapist to recognize and relate to emotions and thoughts of a client. Empathic thinking is often characterized as the willingness and ability to place oneself in another person’s situation, to feel another person’s feelings, or to recognize that another person might experience feelings in the same way as oneself.

Therapist must not only understand what a person says in a therapy session but also understand what the person is not saying and communicate this understanding. Therapists who are highly empathic can help people in treatment face past experiences and obtain a greater understanding of both the experience and feelings surrounding it.

● Five Empathic Techniques

• Attending: This involves behaviors such as nodding, maintaining eye contact, smiling, showing appropriate seriousness, leaning forward, keeping an open stance, and positioning oneself close to the client without invading their space. These actions convey involvement, concern, commitment, and trust.

• Verbally communicating empathic understanding: Use minimal prompts to encourage the client to continue sharing. Phrases like "mmmh!", "Yes!", "I hear you," and "Go on!" signal to the client that they are being listened to attentively.

• Reflecting feelings: Accurately identifying and mirroring the client’s emotions helps them feel understood and validated.

• Non-verbally communicating empathic understanding: Through the mnemonic SOLER—Sitting upright, maintaining an Open posture, Leaning forward, making appropriate Eye contact, and Relaxing—therapists can non verbally demonstrate empathy, creating an environment where the client feels heard and understood.

• Silence as a way of communicating empathic understanding: Sometimes, silence can be powerful, allowing clients the space to process their emotions and thoughts. When a therapist is unsure of what to say, maintaining silence or owning their own feelings can be more beneficial than speaking.

Distancing

When the worker doesn't know what to say to a client, it is better to stay silent or to own the feelings that they are experiencing

Attending

Nodding, keeping eye contact, smiling, showing appropriate seriousness of expression, leaning forward, keeping an open stance, and sitting or standing close to the client without invading the client's space conveys a since of involvement, concern, commitment, and trust

Effective listening

Accurately hear and understand the core emotional feelings inside the client and accurately and caringly communicate that understanding to the client.

Verbally communicating empathic understanding

This involves the use of minimal prompts to encourage the client to continue talking and expressing themselves. Moreover, these minimal prompts communicate to a client that they are being listened to. Examples of these minimal prompts include and not limited to mmmh! Yes! I hear you, go on!

Non-verbally communicating empathy

This is to mean the manner in which a helper presents themselves to the client will show whether or not they are empathetic. Correct non-verbal communication that relays empathy can be summed up by this mnemonic SOLER which is interpreted as when a helper Sits upright, has an Open Posture, Leans forward approximately, maintains appropriate Eye contact and Relaxes then he is portraying empathy to a client and offers that environment of making a client feel that they are being listened to and understood.

2). Genuineness

Congruence refers to the therapist being real, authentic, and genuine with their clients. It’s called congruence because their inner experience and outward expression match. In being authentic, the therapist shows they are trustworthy, which helps in building a good therapeutic relationship with the client. It also serves as a model for clients, encouraging them to be their true selves, expressing their thoughts and feelings, without any sort of false front.

3). Acceptance

Therapist should display acceptance by understanding their beliefs, values, religion, norms, thoughts and behaviors without being judgmental. This helps clients learn to stop avoiding, denying, and struggling with their inner emotions and, instead, accept that these deeper feelings are appropriate responses to certain situations that should not prevent them from moving forward in their lives. With this understanding, clients begin to accept their issues and hardships and commit to making necessary changes in their behavior, regardless of what is going on in their lives, and how they feel about it.

IMPACTS OF CRISIS INTERVENTION

Psychological: Anxiety, Confusion, Mental disorders, Anger, Suicidal attempts, depression.

Economical: Loss of job

Social: Stigmatization

CONCLUSION

It is critical that in relation to the climate of human growth as illustrated previously, a Counselor employs informed and practical strategies of crisis intervention.

There is no crisis so big a human cannot bounce back from. It is imperative that a Counselor be open minded and dedicated. This is in order to avail genuineness, empathy and acceptance in their intervention plan to ensure significant growth in the client. This is the essence of addressing the basic strategies of crisis intervention and climate of human growth.