Main description:

People in Crisis, 7th edition, remains the most comprehensive and user-friendly text available to health and social-service professionals. The new edition includes revised case examples and expanded coverage of cross-cultural content, including updated analyses of the roles and effects of violence, unconscious racism, and crisis responses. Each chapter illustrates the application of crisis concepts and intervention strategies across a wide range of health and mental health settings, and chapters also contain closing summaries that include discussion questions, references, and connections to the online resources available on the book's companion website.

Contents:

Part 1: The Understanding and Practice of Crisis Intervention 1. Crisis Theory and Practice: Introduction and Overview 2. Understanding People in Crisis 3. Crises Rooted in Disparities: Race, Class, Gender, Religion 4. Identifying People at Risk 5. Helping People in Crisis 6. Family and Social Network Strategies During Crisis Part 2: Crisis Related to Developmental and Situational Transitional States 7. Stress and Change During Life Passages 8. Threats to Health and Self-image 9. Threats to Occupational and Residential Security Part 3: Suicide, Violence, and Catastrophic Events 10. Suicide and Other Self-destructive Behavior: Understanding and Assessment 11. Helping Self-destructive People and Survivors of Suicide 12. The Crisis of Victimization by Violence 13. The Violent or Abusive Person: Individual and Sociocultural Factors 14. Violence and Crisis from Disaster. Glossary.