School Crisis Management A Hands-On Guide to Training Crisis Response Teams

by Johnson, Kendall; Stephens, Ronald D.

• ISBN13: 9780897933056
• ISBN10: 0897933052
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-05-07
• Publisher: Hunter House

Summary

This definitive illustrated guide helps schools develop contingency plans and train on-site response teams in crisis management. Updated with new information on the impact of crisis on children, detailed strategies and procedures teach how to manage any emergency that may hit a school. 100 charts can be reproduced as overheads or copied for training sessions.

Table of Contents

List of Copy Masters (Figures)	ix
Foreword	xi
Important Notice	xi
Introduction	1	(2)
Crisis, Trauma, and the Schools	3	(15)
Basics of Psychotraumatology	3	(4)
Recent Advances in PTSD Research	7	(2)
Diagnostic Criteria for 309.81: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder	9	(1)
Children's Posttrauma Behavior	10	(2)
Trauma, Brain Chemistry, and Learning	12	(2)
Group-Level Effects	14	(2)
Suggestions for Community Mental Health and Crisis Response Teams	16	(1)
Columbine High School at Year's End: Challenges to Reestablish the Educational Process	17	(1)
School Crisis Management: Goals and Objectives	18	(7)
Goals for School Crisis Management	18	(1)
Shooting at a Middle School Dance	19	(5)
Suggestions for Community Mental Health and Crisis Response Teams	24	(1)
Conclusion	24	(1)
School Crisis Response	25	(11)
Crisis Teams	26	(2)
Response Team Strategies	28	(3)
Orchestrating Services	31	(1)
Working with Traumatized Staff	32	(1)
Suggestions for Community Mental Health and Crisis Response Teams	33	(1)
Responding to the Omagh Bomb	34	(2)
Emergency Management	36	(11)
Incident Command	36	(1)
Five Functions of the Incident Command System for School Systems	37	(1)
Assessing Crisis Situations	38	(1)
Threat Assessment	38	(1)
School Violence Prevention and Intervention: A New Application of Threat Assessment Technology	39	(1)
Situation Assessment Checklist Status Update	40	(4)
Situational Planning	44	(1)
Suggestions for Community Mental Health and Crisis Response Teams	44	(1)
Care and Feeding of the Crisis Intervention Team	45	(2)
Individual Intervention	47	(5)
An Open Letter to My Counselor	47	(1)
Crisis Intervention	48	(2)
Suggestions for Community Mental Health and Crisis Response Teams	50	(1)
Conclusion	51	(1)
Rapid Assessment	52	(9)
Individual Functioning	53	(3)
Families	56	(3)
Social Support	59	(1)
Other Issues	59	(1)
Suggestions for Community Mental Health and Crisis Response Teams	59	(1)
Conclusion	60	(1)
Group Intervention	61	(13)
Response to the Columbine High School Shooting by the Jefferson Center for Mental Health	63	(2)
Crisis Intervention Following a Collective Traumatic Event	65	(4)
Developmental Differences in Group Interventions	69	(4)
Suggestions for Community Mental Health and Crisis Response Teams	73	(1)
Special Problems	74	(13)
Presuicide	74	(1)
Threat Assessment Teams	75	(1)
Postsuicide or Postmurder	76	(2)
Sudden Loss	78	(1)
Family Crisis	79	(1)
Disaster and Large-Scale Crisis	80	(3)
Suggestions for Community Mental Health and Crisis Response Teams	83	(4)
Taking Care of Yourself	87	(6)
Vicarious Trauma	88	(1)
Receptivity	88	(1)
Hot Spots	89	(1)
Taking Care of Ourselves	90	(2)
The Dilemma	92	(1)
Suggestions for Community Mental Health and Crisis Response Teams	92	(1)
Taking Care of Our Teams	93	(9)
Operational Debriefings	93	(1)
Cumulative Traumatic Stress	94	(1)
Staff Reactions to the Columbine High School Shooting	95	(1)
CTS Debriefings	96	(3)
Suggestions for Community Mental Health and Crisis Response Teams	99	(3)
Issues: Legal and Otherwise	102	(6)
Some Concerns	102	(1)
Some Suggestions	103	(1)
Other Issues	104	(4)
Afterword	108	(1)
Appendix I: What Therapists Can Offer Educators and What Educators Can Offer Therapists	109	(5)
Appendix II: Crisis Consultant's Checklist	114	(4)
Appendix III: Assessing Depressive Reactions	118	(1)
Appendix IV: Risk of Suicide Assessment	119	(2)
Appendix V: Family Mapping	121	(2)
Appendix VI: Psychological Effects of Nature Disaster	123	(1)
References	124	(2)
Copy Masters (Figures)	126	(106)
Index	232