Assessment for Crisis Intervention A Triage Assessment Model

by Myer, Rick A.

• ISBN13: 9780534362324
• ISBN10: 053436232X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-07-25
• Publisher: Cengage Learning

Summary

Handling crisis situations is a scary and often intimidating task for many beginning and even seasoned counselors, social workers, human service workers, psychologists, nurses, police officers and other professionals. Assessment is the foundation and most critical process in crisis intervention since it helps provide the practitioner with essential information reducing the trial and error method that many practitioners find themselves using Myer discusses a three-dimensional model for understanding the assessment process using affect, cognition, and behavior reactions as the three core components of the assessment process. Unique in its focus on assessment in crisis intervention, this text provides a needed element that is often left out or treated superficially in other crisis intervention texts.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	ix
List of Figures	xi
Preface	xiii
Introduction to Crisis Assessment	1	(18)
Growth of Crisis Intervention	2	(1)
Defining Crisis	3	(2)
Defining Crisis Intervention	5	(2)
Crisis Assessment Issues	7	(9)
Summary	16	(1)
Points to Remember	16	(1)
Study Questions	17	(2)
Crisis Assessment Models	19	(17)
Assessment Practices	20	(2)
Assessment Models	22	(7)
Triage Assessment Model	29	(3)
Summary	32	(1)
Points to Remember	32	(1)
Study Questions	33	(3)
Assessment of Affective Reactions	36	(20)
Crisis Workers' Role	37	(2)
Affective Reactions	39	(2)
Assessment of Affective Reactions	41	(5)
Assessment of Severity	46	(6)
Summary	52	(1)
Points to Remember	53	(1)
Study Questions	54	(2)
Assessment of Cognitive Reactions	56	(28)
Crisis Worker's Role	57	(3)
Cognitive Reactions	60	(2)
Life Dimensions	62	(2)
Assessment of Cognitive Reactions	64	(6)
Assessment of Life Dimensions	70	(3)
Assessment of Severity	73	(6)
Summary	79	(1)
Points to Remember	80	(1)
Study Questions	81	(3)
Assessment of Behavioral Reactions	84	(25)
Crisis Workers' Role	86	(2)
Behavioral Reactions	88	(4)
Assessment of Behavioral Reactions	92	(5)
Assessment of Severity	97	(8)
Summary	105	(1)
Points to Remember	106	(1)
Study Questions	107	(2)
Using the Triage Assessment Form: Crisis Intervention	109	(32)
Crisis Workers' Role	109	(3)
Identifying the Crisis Event	112	(1)
Identifying Domains	113	(2)
Use of Severity Scales	115	(1)
Connection to Intervention	116	(5)
Case Studies	121	(16)
Summary	137	(1)
Points to Remember	138	(1)
Study Questions	138	(3)
Appendix A: Ethical and Legal Issues	141	(6)
Appendix B: Triage Assessment Form: Crisis Intervention	147	(4)
Index	151