Crisis Intervention Strategies

by James, Richard K.

• ISBN13: 9780495100263
• ISBN10: 0495100269
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-07-27
• Publisher: Brooks Cole

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Crisis Theory and Practice: Basic Training

Approaching Crisis Intervention

Culturally Effective Helping

Basic Crisis Intervention Skills

Crisis Case Handling

Handling Specific Crises: Going Into The Trenches

Telephone and On-Line Crisis Counseling

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Crisis of Lethality

Sexual assault

Partner violence

Chemical dependency-crisis of addiction

Personal Loss: Bereavement and Grief

Crises in Schools

Crisis in the Human Services Workplace: Under Fire

Violent Behavior in Institutions

Crisis/Hostage Negotiation

Human Services Workers in Crisis: Burnout, Vicarious Traumatization and Compassion Fatigue

New Directions: No Man's Land

Off the Couch and Into the Streets

Ecosystemic Crisis Intervention

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