Full Description
Designed to help in day-to-day, on-the-scene crisis intervention, ELEMENTS OF CRISIS INTERVENTION: CRISES AND HOW TO RESPOND TO THEM, 3e offers a nuts-and-bolts presentation of the information, strategies, and guidelines needed to be an effective crisis worker. A concise handbook for helping professionals who work on the front lines of crisis intervention, it is an ideal reference for crisis interveners, first responders, counselors, nurses, disaster responders, EMTs, law enforcement, human service workers, psychologists, social workers, teachers, agency directors, military, and any other professionals who encounter crisis situations.
Contents
1. Approach to Crisis Intervention.
2. Procedure for Effective Crisis Intervention.
3. Words Matter: Effective Crisis Communication.
4. Team Intervention.
5. Special Issues.
6. Intervener Survival.
7. Children's Reactions to Crisis.
8. Hot-Line Workers.
9. Family Crisis.
10. The Grief Factor.
11. Disaster Intervention.
11. Legal Implications of Crisis Intervention.
Appendix.
Bibliography.
