A Guide to Crisis Intervention

by Kanel, Kristi

• ISBN13: 9780495007760
• ISBN10: 0495007765
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-02-27
• 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

Preface	xvii
About the Author	xix
What Is a Crisis?	1	(13)
Crisis Defined	1	(2)
Crisis as Both Danger and Opportunity	3	(1)
Crisis as Opportunity	3	(2)
Crisis as Danger: Becoming a Crisis-Prone Person	5	(1)
Other Factors Determining Danger or Possibility	6	(2)
Precipitating Events	8	(1)
Developmental Crises	8	(1)
Situational Crises	9	(1)
Subjective Distress	9	(2)
Failure of Coping Methods	11	(1)
Key Terms for Study	12	(2)
The History of Crisis Intervention	14	(13)
Contributions from Other Theoretical Modalities	18	(1)
Psychoanalytic Theory	18	(1)
Existential Theory	18	(1)
Humanistic Approach	19	(1)
Cognitive-Behavioral Theories	19	(1)
Family Systems Theory	20	(3)
Brief Therapy	23	(1)
Critical Incident Debriefing	23	(1)
The ABC Model of Crisis Intervention	23	(2)
Key Terms for Study	25	(2)
Ethical and Professional Issues	27	(11)
The Need for Ethics	27	(1)
Use of Paraprofessionals	27	(1)
Self-Awareness and Countertransference	28	(1)
Dual Relationships	29	(1)
Confidentiality	29	(1)
Elder Abuse Reporting Act	30	(1)
Child Abuse Reporting Act	30	(1)
Informed Consent	31	(1)
Supervision and Training	31	(1)
Burnout and Secondary Posttraumatic Stress Disorder	32	(1)
Definitions of Burnout	32	(1)
Symptoms of Burnout	33	(1)
Causes of Burnout	33	(1)
Prevention of Burnout	34	(1)
A Study of Community Crisis Workers	34	(2)
Key Terms for Study	36	(2)
Cultural Sensitivity in Crisis Intervention	38	(31)
Development of Culturally Sensitive Psychotherapists	38	(2)
Latinos	40	(1)
Mexican American Families	41	(1)
Mexican American Cultural Patterns	42	(1)
Issues Related to Different Rates of Acculturation	43	(1)
Comparison of Mainstream Cultural Values and Latino Resistance in the Mental Health Field	44	(1)
Ataque de Nervios	44	(3)
African American Families	47	(1)
Role of Religion in African American Life	47	(1)
Problem-Solving Model for African Americans	48	(1)
Asian American Families	49	(1)
Crisis Intervention Issues for Asian Americans	49	(1)
Southeast Asians and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder	49	(2)
Asian American Family Structure	51	(1)
Shame and Obligation in Asian American Culture	51	(2)
Communication Process in Asian American Culture	53	(1)
People with Disabilities and Crisis Intervention	54	(1)
Responses to People with Disabilities	55	(1)
The Disabled Population and the ADA	56	(1)
Vulnerable Subgroups within the Disabled Population	57	(3)
Crisis Intervention Strategies for Persons with Disabilities	60	(1)
The Subculture of Gays, Lesbians, Bisexuals, and Transgenders	61	(1)
Typical Issues Facing G/L/B/T Persons in Crisis	62	(1)
Coming Out	63	(2)
Case Vignettes	65	(2)
Key Terms for Study	67	(2)
The ABC Model of Crisis Intervention	69	(28)
Developing and Maintaining Rapport	70	(1)
Attending Behavior	71	(1)
Exercise	71	(2)
Questioning	73	(2)
Paraphrasing	75	(1)
Exercise	76	(1)
Reflection of Feelings	76	(1)
Exercise	76	(1)
Summarization	77	(1)
Identifying the Problem	77	(4)
Identifying the Precipitating Event	81	(1)
Recognizing the Meaning or Perception of the Precipitating Event	82	(1)
Identifying Subjective Distress and Functioning Level	83	(1)
Making Ethical Checks	84	(1)
Substance Abuse Issues	85	(1)
Therapeutic Interaction	86	(2)
Coping	88	(1)
Exploring the Client's Own Attempts at Coping	88	(1)
Encouraging the Development of New Coping Behaviors	89	(1)
Presenting Alternative Coping Behaviors	89	(3)
Commitment and Follow-Up	92	(1)
Key Terms for Study	92	(5)
When Crisis Is a Danger	97	(17)
Suicide	97	(1)
Symptoms and Clues	98	(2)
Suicide Assessment	100	(1)
A Phenomenological Look at Suicide	101	(1)
Suicide Prevention	102	(2)
Interventions	104	(3)
Self-Mutilative Behaviors (SMB)	107	(1)
Managing a Client Who Is a Danger to Others	108	(2)
Psychotic Breakdowns and Gravely Disabled Mentally Ill Persons	110	(1)
Exercises	111	(1)
Key Terms for Study	112	(2)
Developmental Crises	114	(21)
Evolutional Crises	116	(1)
First Stage of a Family: Creating a Marital Subsystem	116	(4)
Creating a Parental Subsystem	120	(1)
Creating Sibling Subsystems	121	(1)
Creating Grandparental Subsystems	121	(1)
Situational Crises Related to Adolescence	122	(1)
Teen Pregnancy	122	(1)
Gangs	123	(2)
Runaways	125	(1)
Eating Disorders	126	(2)
Crises of Old Age	128	(1)
Alzheimer's Disease	129	(2)
Case Vignettes	131	(2)
Key Terms for Study	133	(2)
Crises of Loss	135	(16)
Death and Dying	135	(1)
Kubler-Ross's Five Stages of Death and Dying	136	(1)
Definitions	137	(1)
Tasks of Mourning	137	(2)
Manifestations of Normal Grief	139	(1)
Determinants of Grief	140	(1)
Intervention	140	(1)
Counseling Principles and Procedures	141	(2)
Losing a Child	143	(2)
Divorce and Separation	145	(1)
Intervention	146	(1)
Children and Divorce	146	(1)
Crises Related to Blended Families	147	(1)
Exercises	148	(2)
Key Terms for Study	150	(1)
Crises Related to AIDS and HIV	151	(16)
Basic Statistics About AIDS	153	(1)
Acronyms and Terms	153	(1)
A Brief Outline of the History of AIDS	153	(1)
What Is AIDS?	153	(2)
Signs and Symptoms of AIDS	155	(1)
Misconceptions about AIDS	155	(1)
Modes of Transmission	156	(1)
Progression of HIV Infection to AIDS	156	(1)
AIDS Testing	157	(1)
Treatment	157	(1)
Social Aspects	158	(1)
Interventions	159	(1)
Treatment Issues	160	(3)
Exercises	163	(2)
Key Terms for Study	165	(2)
Crises Related to Substance Abuse	167	(27)
Recognizing Substance Dependence and Substance Abuse	169	(1)
Criteria for Substance Dependence	169	(1)
Criteria for Substance Abuse	170	(1)
Types of Drug Abuse Crises	170	(1)
Medical Crises	171	(1)
Legal Crises	171	(1)
Psychological Crises	172	(1)
Spiritual Crises	172	(1)
Alcohol: The Most Common Drug of Abuse	173	(1)
Facts about Alcoholism and Alcohol-Related Problems	173	(1)
The Alcoholic	174	(1)
Intervention	175	(5)
The Co-Dependent	180	(4)
Cocaine, Crack, and Crystal Meth	184	(2)
Effects of Cocaine and Speed on the Family	186	(1)
Marijuana	186	(3)
LSD (Lysergic Acid Diethylamide)	189	(1)
Heroin	189	(2)
Exercises	191	(1)
Key Terms for Study	192	(2)
PTSD, Community Disasters, and Trauma Response	194	(14)
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)	194	(2)
Diagnostic Criteria for Acute Stress Disorder	196	(1)
Serving in Combat or Living in a War Zone	197	(1)
Suffering Personal or Family Victimization	198	(1)
Living Through a Natural Disaster	198	(2)
Surviving a Manmade Disaster	200	(1)
Interventions	201	(1)
Critical Incident and Debriefing	202	(1)
Effects on Young Children	203	(1)
Debriefing Process	203	(1)
Other Therapeutic Approaches Commonly Used to Treat PTSD	204	(1)
Case Vignettes	205	(1)
Key Terms for Study	206	(2)
Child Abuse, Spousal Abuse, and Sexual Assault	208	(34)
Child Abuse	208	(1)
Prevalence	209	(1)
Types of Child Abuse	209	(1)
How to Detect Child Abuse and Neglect	210	(1)
How to Detect Sexual Abuse of Children	211	(1)
Association of Child Abuse with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder	212	(1)
Reporting Child Abuse	213	(1)
Interventions with an Abused Child	214	(2)
The Battering Parent	216	(1)
Interventions for Adults Who Were Sexually Abused as Children	217	(1)
Elder Abuse	218	(1)
Interventions with Abused Elderly People	219	(1)
Intimate Partner Abuse and Domestic Violence	220	(1)
Prevalence	220	(2)
How Are Children Affected?	222	(1)
Common Myths	222	(1)
A Historical Perspective	222	(1)
Why Do Women Stay?	223	(1)
The Battering Cycle	224	(1)
Battered Woman Syndrome	224	(2)
Intervening with Battered Women	226	(3)
The Batterer	229	(2)
Interventions with the Batterer	231	(1)
Rape	232	(1)
Common Myths and Facts about Rape	233	(1)
What Is Rape?	234	(1)
Rape Trauma Syndrome	234	(1)
Interventions with a Rape Victim	235	(1)
Date and Acquaintance Rape	236	(1)
Case Vignettes	237	(1)
Child Abuse and Spousal Abuse	238	(1)
Child Sexual Abuse	238	(1)
Child Physical Abuse	238	(1)
Child Neglect	238	(1)
Spousal Abuse	238	(1)
Spousal Abuse and Elder Abuse	239	(1)
Acquaintance Rape	239	(1)
Rape	239	(1)
Rape	239	(1)
Key Terms for Study	239	(3)
References	242	(11)
Name Index	253	(3)
Subject Index	256