Effective intervention in Chat counselling

This master's thesis studies effective intervention in chat-based crisis support. This topic is especially relevant, as children, adolescents and young adults have been becoming more interested in such services in the Czech Republic. The theoretical part provides a window into the field of crisis support and elaborates on details of crisis intervention. It presents selected models, approaches, methods, and techniques of crisis intervention. The thesis also describes social support, effectivity, and effective intervention and connects these issues with the topic of crisis intervention. The main aim of this part is to focus on chat-based crisis intervention and its specific features when concerning children and young adults. The empirical part presents a mixed methods study conducted in the Safety line organization, which operates an important nation-wide hotline for children and young adults. In the study, clients and consultants were asked to evaluate the conversation that had just ended by filling out a questionnaire. The chat records were then analyzed in the next part of the study. Key words chat-based crisis intervention, chat counselling, children, adolescents, young adults, effectivity, effective approaches, Safety line / Child Helplin