crisis intervention (mental health services)

Offers advice to students on how to recognize and deal with potential crises, featuring vignettes that show a girl who is feeling suicidal after being dumped by her boyfriend, and a victim of bullying who is threatening revenge.

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, 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.

"In People in Crisis every crisis worker-regardless of discipline-will find a treasury of practical guidelines that are comprehensive, well organized, illustrated by appropriate examples, and thoroughly referenced. Lee Ann Hoff covers the spectrum of crisis experience-individual, couples, group, and community, never losing sight of the uniqueness of each clinical situation and its cultural context." Jerome A. Motto, professor of psychiatry, emeritus, University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine.

Ministers-both clergy and lay-are often the first recourse for people in crisis, and people expect them to navigate through emergency, tragedy, disaster, loss. Often these persons are paralyzed and they expect help to get in motion again. Crisis Counseling is written for persons who seek to provide such assistance, whether as ministers or hotline volunteers or pastoral counselors. Here, Howard W. Stone unites the historic skills of pastoral care and counseling with the recent methods of crisis intervention from the fields of psychology and psychotherapy. The insights of marriage and family systems also have been incorporated into this book, even though crisis intervention arose out of individual psychotherapeutic theory and practice. This thoroughly revised book includes new material on suicide, working with the family of Alzheimer patients, crisis counseling by telephone, intervention in volatile or hazardous situations, and the minister's personal safety.

1. Crisis Theory and Practice: Introduction and Overview -- 2. Understanding People in Crisis -- 3. Identifying People in Crisis -- 4. Helping People in Crisis -- 5. Family and Social Network Strategies During Crisis -- 6. Suicide and Other Self-Destructive Behavior: Understanding and Assessment -- 7. Helping Self-Destructive People and Those Mourning Suicide -- 8. The Crisis of Victimization by Violence -- 9. The Violent Person: Individual and Sociocultural Factors -- 10. Violence and Crisis from Disaster -- 11. Threats to Health Status and Self-Image -- 12. Threats to Occupational and Residential Security -- 13. Stress and Change During Life Passages -- 14. People with AIDS: Personal, Community, and Global Perspectives.

Provides detailed guidelines and materials for developing a crisis management plan for schools, offering advice on putting together a crisis team, describing techniques for crisis and grief counseling for children, and including activities for various ages.

Discusses strategies that friends and family members may use to make a teen face up to his or her addiction and get support to overcome it.