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Nowadays, it is impossible to turn on the TV or browse the Internet without being exposed to tragic events happening in the world: the war in Ukraine, the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria with almost 50,000 deaths, tsunamis, floods, hurricanes, sudden deaths, apocalyptic scenarios with nuclear weapons, and the list goes on. Young people are also among those who daily "come into contact with the raw details of such terrifying events", and school staff are daily confronted with increasingly unusual situations, where prompt interventions to solve them or smoothen them out are necessary. These events can range from minor incidents involving one or two students to major crises affecting the entire school community. Broke and Jimerson (2004) note the need to distinguish between potentially traumatic events that require crisis intervention and events that may be merely stressful and can be managed with fewer resources. The term "crisis situation" refers to a potentially traumatic event, which by its nature exceeds the adaptation capacity of some individuals or groups of people. Events are "extremely negative, uncontrollable, depersonalized and/or unpredictable" (Broke, 2002). Evidence-based practice facilitates decision-making processes, in an approach in which the beneficiary becomes the expert who, following successive empowerment processes, becomes "the central element in self-care management, being considered to have the best expertise on his own condition" (Sandu, 2021).
Keywords: crisis intervention, evidence-based social work, empowerment
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