Synopses & Reviews
This authoritative, best-selling text presents the latest skills and techniques for handling real crisis situations. The authors' 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 authors then build specific strategies for handling a myriad of different crisis situations, accompanied in many cases with the dialogue that a practitioner might use when working with the individual in crisis. New videos, available through a DVD and through CourseMate (both of which are available for purchase with the text), correlate with the text and demonstrate crisis intervention techniques, ensuring that you not only understand the theoretical underpinnings of crisis intervention theories, but also know how to apply them in crisis situations.
Synopsis
Best-selling author Richard K. James presents the latest skills and techniques for handling real crisis situations. Authoritative and based on the author's extensive experience teaching crisis intervention courses, the new edition presents a six-step model for dealing with people in crisis: Defining the Problem, Ensuring Client Safety, Providing Support, Examining Alternatives, Making Plans, and Obtaining Commitment. Using this model, the author then builds specific strategies for handling a myriad of different crisis situations - in many cases providing the dialogue that you might use as a nurse, minister, police officer, counselor, or other practitioner. At the end of this course, you will have developed skills and strategies that you can take out of the classroom and onto the street.
About the Author
Richard "Dick" James is a Crader Professor of Counseling at the University of Memphis. He is a licensed psychologist and licensed professional counselor. He also is a Nationally Certified School Counselor. He is currently coordinator of psychological assessment at the University of Memphis Center for Rehabilitation and teaches graduate classes in crisis intervention, theories of counseling, and school counseling at the University of Memphis. He trains police officers for crisis intervention with the mentall
Table of Contents
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.