Synopses & Reviews
Crisis intervention has become the most widely used brief treatment modality in the world. As a result of millions of acute crisis events occurring each year and impacting the lives of the general public, interest in crisis intervention, response teams, and crisis management has grown tremendously in the past decade. However, there exists a limited amount of literature designed to give timely and comprehensive help for crisis workers. This book fills that gap. It is the first interdisciplinary handbook to prepare the crisis counselor for rapid assessment and timely crisis intervention in the 21st century.
In this classic volume, Dr. Roberts and 34 clinical experts and distinguished chapter authors have set the "standard of care and treatment" for persons in trauma and acute crises. This handbook gives all professionals ready access to the specific guidelines, practice techniques, protective factors and resilience, case study applications, and crisis intervention strategies that are most appropriate for maximizing opportunities for rapid assessment and crisis resolution.
Now expanded and fully updated, Crisis Intervention Handbook: Assessment, Treatment, and Research, Second Edition focuses on crisis intervention services for persons who are victims of natural disasters, school-based and home-based violence, violent crimes, and personal or family crises. Consisting of five parts, it covers a broad array of subjects, including psychiatric emergencies, medical crises, community-wide disasters, and high school shootings. Part I provides an overview; Part II addresses crisis assessment and intervention models for children and youths; Part III explores crisis intervention and prevention for victims of violence; Part IV describes crisis assessment and intervention in health and mental health related crises; and Part V focuses on research and outcome studies on the effectiveness of crisis intervention programs throughout the world.
In the current managed-care era of accountability and utilization of best practices, every practitioner will find this handbook indispensable and essential reading. It applies a unifying model of crisis intervention, making it appropriate for front-line crisis workers, clinical psychologists, social workers, psychiatric mental health nurses, counselors, and graduate students who need to know the latest steps and methods for intervening effectively with persons experiencing a full-blown crisis episode.
Review
"The Crisis Intervention Handbook (2nd Edition) ... is a classic tome that remains acutely relevant during times when crisis and psychological trauma are pervasive throughout society. ... the chapters in this book are highly readable, informative and practical in application. This is the first compendium of all original chapters to examine and clarify the differences between stressful life events, traumatic stress, developmental crisis, traumatic crisis, psychiatric emergencies, and catastrophic crisis. ... Roberts's book is a necessity for practitioners, faculty, and students ... [it] has clearly surpassed both the first edition and my high expectations. ... [This book] will rapidly become the gold standard for all beginning and experienced crisis clinicians."--Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention
Table of Contents
Part I: Overview
1. An Overview of Crisis Theory and Crisis Intervention
2. How to Work with Clients' Strengths in Crisis Intervention: A Solution Focused Approach
3. Crisis Intervention for Persons with Clinical Disorders Based on the Stress-Crisis Continuum
4. Innovations in Group Crisis Intervention: Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD) and Critical Incident Stress Management
Part II: Crisis Assessment and Intervention Models with Children and Youth
5. Crisis Intervention with Early Adolescents Who Have Suffered a Significant Loss
6. Adolescent Suicidality and Crisis Intervention
7. Crisis Interventions at College Counseling Centers
Part III: Crisis Intervention and Crisis Prevention with Victims of Violence
8. A Comprehensive Model for Crisis Intervention with Battered Women and Their Children
9. School Crisis Intervention, Crisis Prevention, and Crisis Response
10. Crisis Intervention with School Violence Problems and Volatile Situations
11. An Application of Crisis Intervention to Situational Crises Frequently Experienced by Adult Survivors of Incest
Part IV: Crisis Assessment and Intervention in Health-Related and Mental-Health Related Crises
12. Crisis Intervention Applications of Brief Solution Focused Therapy in Addictions
13. The Crisis of Divorce: Cognitive-Behavioral and Constructivist Assessment and Treatment
14. Crisis Intervention with HIV-Positive Women
15. Mobile Crisis Units: Frontline Community Mental Health Services
16. Comprehensive Crisis Intervention Model of Community Integration, Inc. Crisis Services
17. Crisis Intervention in the Hospital Emergency Room
18. A Model of Crisis Intervention in Critical and Intensive Care Units of General Hospitals
19. Crisis Interventions with Culturally Diverse Families
Part V: Research
20. Procedures for Evaluating Time-Limited Crisis Intervention