A Guide to Crisis Intervention

by Kanel, Kristi

• ISBN13: 9780534547943
• ISBN10: 053454794X
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-02-21
• Publisher: Brooks Cole

Summary

Handle any crisis situation with ease with A GUIDE TO CRISIS INTERVENTION! This practical nuts-and-bolts guide provides you with the skills necessary to effectively manage crises. Using the comprehensive ABC model of crisis intervention, this counseling text keeps you up-to-date on the latest information regarding crises. Case examples and scripts that show what to actually say provide you with actual examples of dialogue with the client illustrating the ABC model. Tables that outline key points such as history of crisis intervention, contributions, suicide assessment, and death and dying issues provide you with a framework in which to assess the client.

Table of Contents

What Is a Crisis?	1	(14)
Crisis Defined	1	(2)
Crises as Danger and Opportunity	3	(1)
Process of Crises	3	(2)
The Crisis-Prone Person	5	(1)
Other Determining Factors	6	(1)
Precipitating Events	7	(1)
Developmental Crises	8	(1)
Situational Crises	8	(1)
Subjective Distress	9	(1)
Coping Methods Fail	10	(1)
Key Terms for Study	11	(3)
Crisis Intervention	14	(15)
The History of Crisis Intervention	14	(4)
Contributions from Other Theoretical Modalities	18	(7)
Psychoanalytic Theory	18	(1)
Existential Theory	18	(1)
Humanistic Approach	19	(1)
Cognitive-Behavioral Theories	19	(1)
Family Systems Theory	20	(5)
Brief Therapy	25	(1)
Critical Incident Debriefing	25	(1)
The ABC Model of Crisis Intervention	25	(2)
Key Terms for Study	27	(2)
The ABC Model of Crisis Intervention	29	(34)
A: Developing and Maintaining Rapport	30	(8)
Attending Behavior	32	(1)
Questioning	33	(2)
Paraphrasing	35	(1)
Reflection of Feelings	36	(1)
Summarization	37	(1)
Key Terms for Study	38	(1)
B: Identifying the Problem	38	(17)
Identifying the Precipitating Event	42	(1)
Recognizing the Meaning/Perception of the Precipitating Event	43	(1)
Identifying Subjective Distress and Functioning Level	43	(1)
Making Ethical Checks	44	(1)
Mental Status Exam and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders	45	(3)
Substance Abuse Issues	48	(6)
Key Terms for Study	54	(1)
C: Coping	55	(8)
Exploring the Client's Own Attempts at Coping	55	(1)
Encouraging the Development of New Coping Behaviors	55	(1)
Presenting Alternative Coping Behaviors	56	(2)
Commitment and Follow-up	58	(1)
Key Terms for Study	59	(4)
Ethical and Professional Issues	63	(11)
The Need for Ethics	63	(1)
Use of Paraprofessionals	63	(1)
Self-Awareness and Countertransference	64	(1)
Dual Relationships	65	(1)
Confidentiality	65	(2)
Elder Abuse Reporting Act	66	(1)
Child Abuse Reporting Act	66	(1)
Informed Consent	67	(1)
Supervision and Training	67	(1)
Burnout and Secondary Posttraumatic Stress Disorder	68	(4)
Definitions of Burnout	68	(1)
Symptoms of Burnout	69	(1)
Causes of Burnout	69	(1)
Prevention of Burnout	70	(1)
A Study of Community Crisis Workers	70	(2)
Key Terms for Study	72	(2)
When Crisis Is a Danger	74	(17)
Suicide	75	(11)
Symptoms and Clues	76	(1)
Suicide Assessment	77	(1)
A Phenomenological Look at Suicide	78	(2)
Suicide Prevention	80	(2)
Interventions	82	(4)
Managing a Client Who is a Danger to Others	86	(2)
Psychotic Breakdowns and The Gravely Disabled	88	(2)
Key Terms for Study	90	(1)
Developmental Crises	91	(17)
Evolutional Crises	96	(2)
First Stage of a Family: Creating a Marital Subsystem	96	(1)
Creating a Parental Subsystem	96	(1)
Creating Sibling Subsystems	97	(1)
Creating Grandparental Subsystems	97	(1)
Situational Crises Related to Adolescence	98	(4)
Teen Pregnancy	98	(1)
Gangs	99	(1)
Runaways	100	(2)
Crises of Old Age	102	(3)
Alzheimer's Disease	102	(2)
Elder Abuse	104	(1)
Key Terms for Study	105	(3)
Cultural Sensitivity in Crisis Intervention	108	(31)
The Role of Ethnicity and Gender on Help-Seeking Attitudes	109	(1)
Development of Culturally Sensitive Psychotherapists	109	(2)
Latinos	111	(6)
Mexican American Families	112	(1)
Mexican American Cultural Patterns	113	(1)
Issues Related to Different Rates of Acculturation	114	(1)
A Comparison of Mainstream Culture Values and Latino Resistance in the Mental Health Field	115	(2)
African American Families	117	(2)
The Role of Religion	117	(1)
Problem-Solving Model	118	(1)
Asian American Families	119	(7)
Crisis Intervention Issues	119	(1)
Southeast Asians and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder	120	(1)
The Family Structure	121	(1)
Shame and Obligation	122	(1)
The Communication Process	123	(2)
Key Terms for Study	125	(1)
People with Disabilities and Crisis Intervention	126	(9)
Responses to the Disabled	127	(1)
The Disabled Population	128	(1)
Vulnerable Subgroups	128	(4)
Crisis Intervention Strategies for Persons with Disabilities	132	(2)
Key Terms for Study	134	(1)
The Subculture of Homosexuality	135	(4)
Typical Issues Facing Homosexuals in Crisis	135	(1)
Coming Out	136	(1)
Key Terms for Study	137	(2)
Crises of Loss	139	(17)
Death and Dying	139	(11)
Kubler-Ross's Five Stages of Death and Dying	140	(1)
Tasks of Mourning	141	(2)
Manifestations of Normal Grief	143	(1)
Determinants of Grief	144	(1)
Intervention	144	(1)
Counseling Principles and Procedures	145	(2)
When the Loss Is One's Child	147	(3)
Divorce and Separation	150	(4)
Intervention	151	(1)
Children and Divorce	151	(1)
Crises Related to Blended Families	152	(2)
Key Terms for Study	154	(2)
Crises Related to AIDS and HIV	156	(17)
Basic Statistics about AIDS	158	(7)
Acronyms/Terms	158	(1)
AIDS: A Brief Outline History	158	(2)
What Is AIDS?	160	(1)
Symptoms of AIDS	161	(1)
Misconceptions	161	(1)
Modes of Transmission	162	(1)
Progression of HIV Infection to AIDS	162	(1)
AIDS Testing	163	(1)
Treatment	163	(1)
Social Aspects	164	(1)
Intervention	165	(6)
Treatment Issues	165	(6)
Key Terms for Study	171	(2)
Crises Related to Substance Abuse	173	(29)
Recognizing Substance Dependence and Substance Abuse	175	(1)
Criteria for Substance Dependence	175	(1)
Criteria for Substance Abuse	176	(1)
Types of Drug Abuse Crises	176	(2)
Medical Crises	176	(1)
Legal Crises	177	(1)
Psychological Crises	178	(1)
Spiritual Crises	178	(1)
Alcohol: The Leading Abused Drug	178	(14)
Facts on Alcoholism and Alcohol-Related Problems	179	(1)
The Alcoholic	179	(3)
Intervention	182	(5)
The Co-Dependent	187	(1)
Adult Children of Alcoholics	188	(1)
Treatment for the Co-Dependent	188	(3)
12-Step Groups	191	(1)
The Role of Hospitalization	191	(1)
Cocaine, Crack Cocaine, and Speed (Amphetamines)	192	(3)
Effects of Cocaine and Speed on the Family	195	(1)
Marijuana	195	(3)
LSD (LySergic acid Diethyamide)	198	(1)
Heroin	199	(1)
Key Terms for Study	200	(2)
PTSD and Crises of Victimization	202	(38)
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)	202	(6)
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Defined	204	(1)
Diagnostic Criteria for Acute Stress Disorder	205	(1)
Critical Incident and Debriefing	206	(1)
Interventions After a Critical Incident	207	(1)
Child Abuse as a Trauma	208	(10)
Types of Child Abuse	209	(1)
How to Detect Child Abuse	209	(2)
How to Detect Sexual Abuse	211	(1)
Association of Child Abuse with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder	212	(1)
Reporting Child Abuse	212	(1)
Interventions with an Abused Child	213	(2)
The Battering Parent	215	(1)
Incest	216	(2)
Spousal Abuse	218	(20)
How Are Children Affected?	220	(1)
Common Myths	220	(1)
A Historical Perspective	220	(1)
Why Do the Women Stay?	221	(1)
The Battering Cycle	221	(3)
The Battered Woman Syndrome	224	(2)
Intervening	226	(3)
The Batterer	229	(1)
A Phenomenological View of the Batterer	229	(1)
Intervention	230	(2)
Sexual Assault	232	(1)
Common Myths and Facts about Rape	233	(1)
What Is Rape?	233	(1)
Rape Trauma Syndrome	234	(1)
Intervention	235	(3)
Key Terms for Study	238	(2)
Epilogue	240	(2)
References	242	(7)
Author Index	249	(2)
Subject Index	251