Main description:

This practical nuts-and-bolts guide provides readers with the skills necessary to handle any crisis situation. The book utilizes the comprehensive ABC Model of Crisis Intervention, which can be used as effectively for day-to-day interactions as for emergency situations. A GUIDE TO CRISIS INTERVENTION, 5th Edition addresses such crises as drug abuse, secondary PTSD, crisis worker burnout, AIDS, suicide, death and dying, Alzheimer's, and victimization and abuse.

Contents:

1. What Is a Crisis and Crisis Intervention?
2. Ethical, Legal, and Professional Issues.
3. The ABC Model of Crisis Intervention.
4. When a Crisis Leads to Danger to Self, Others, or Psychotic Decompensation.
5. Developmental Crises and Special Issues of Adolescence (Bullying, Pregnancy, Runaways, and Eating Disorders).
6. Crises of Loss: Death, Relationship Breakups, and Economic Loss.
7. PTSD, Trauma, and Community Disasters.
8. Veterans Issues.
9. Sexual Assault and Rape.
10. Crises of Personal Victimization: Child Abuse, Elder Abuse, Intimate Partner Abuse.
11. Crises Related to Substance Abuse.
12. Crises in Reaction to Serious Illness and Disabilities.