Authoritative and based on the authors' extensive experience teaching crisis intervention courses, this best-selling text presents the latest skills and techniques for handling real crisis situations. The author's six-step model clearly illustrates and elucidates the process of dealing with people in crisis: Defining the Problem, Ensuring Client Safety, Providing Support, Examining Alternatives, Making Plans, and Obtaining Commitment. Using this model, the authorthen builds specific strategies for handling a myriad of different crisis situations, accompanied in many cases with the dialogue that a practitioner mightuse when working with the individual in crisis. New videos, available througha DVD and through CourseMate (both of which are available for packaging with the text), correlate with the text and demonstrate crisis intervention techniques for students who must not only understand the theoretical underpinnings ofcrisis intervention theories, but also apply them in crisis situations. INDICE: 1. Approaching Crisis Intervention.2. Culturally Effective Helping.3. The Intervention and Assessment Models.4. Tools of the Trade.5. Crisis Case Handling.6. Telephone and Online Crisis Counseling.7. Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.8. Crisis of Lethality.9. Sexual Assault.10. Partner Violence.11. Chemical Dependency: The Crisis of Addiction.12. Personal Loss: Bereavement and Grief.13. Crisis in Schools.14. Violent Behavior in Institutions.15. Crisis/Hostage Negotiation .16. Human Service Workers in Crisis: Burnout, Vicarious Traumatization, and Compassion Fatigue.
- ISBN: 978-1-111-18678-4
- Editorial: South Western
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 720
- Fecha Publicación: 25/05/2012
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés