In the article, Crisis Counseling: An Overview by Sandoval, Scott and Padilla, the authors talk about a school psychologist’s role as it is related to crisis counseling. The authors have broken down crisis counseling in a school setting into eight core psychological first aid actions steps; making contact, providing safety, the stabilizing affect, assessing needs and concerns, providing practical assistance, facilitate connections with social supports, facilitate coping and create linkages with needed collaborative services. The primary goal of these steps are to help individuals undergoing a crisis be able to restore to their previous level of functioning with additional coping techniques for future crisis’ (Sandoval, Scott, Padilla, 2009,
