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This practical nuts-and-bolts guide provides students with the skills necessary to handle any crisis situation. The text utilizes the comprehensive and effective ABC Model of Crisis Intervention that can be used as effectively for day-to-day interactions as for emergency situations. Addressing such crises as drug abuse, secondary PTSD, crisis worker burnout, AIDS, suicide, death and dying, Alzheimers and victimization and abuse, A GUIDE TO CRISIS INTERVENTION is useful for both students and practitioners.

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• Chapter 1 What Is a Crisis?(p. 1)
• Crisis Defined(p. 1)
• Crises as Danger and Opportunity(p. 3)
• Process of Crises(p. 3)
• The Crisis-Prone Person(p. 5)
• Other Determining Factors(p. 6)
• Precipitating Events(p. 7)
• Developmental Crises(p. 8)
• Situational Crises(p. 8)
• Subjective Distress(p. 9)
• Coping Methods Fail(p. 10)
• Key Terms for Study(p. 11)
• Chapter 2 Crisis Intervention(p. 14)
• The History of Crisis Intervention(p. 14)
• Contributions from Other Theoretical Modalities(p. 18)
• Psychoanalytic Theory(p. 18)
• Existential Theory(p. 18)
• Humanistic Approach(p. 19)
• Cognitive-Behavioral Theories(p. 19)
• Family Systems Theory(p. 20)
• Brief Therapy(p. 25)
• Critical Incident Debriefing(p. 25)
• The ABC Model of Crisis Intervention(p. 25)
• Key Terms for Study(p. 27)
• Chapter 3 The ABC Model of Crisis Intervention(p. 29)
• A Developing and Maintaining Rapport(p. 30)
• Attending Behavior(p. 32)
• Questioning(p. 33)
• Paraphrasing(p. 35)
• Reflection of Feelings(p. 36)
• Summarization(p. 37)
• Key Terms for Study(p. 38)
• B Identifying the Problem(p. 38)
• Identifying the Precipitating Event(p. 42)
• Recognizing the Meaning/Perception of the Precipitating Event(p. 43)
• Identifying Subjective Distress and Functioning Level(p. 43)
• Making Ethical Checks(p. 44)
• Mental Status Exam and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders(p. 45)
• Substance Abuse Issues(p. 48)
• Key Terms for Study(p. 54)
• C Coping(p. 55)
• Exploring the Client's Own Attempts at Coping(p. 55)
• Encouraging the Development of New Coping Behaviors(p. 55)
• Presenting Alternative Coping Behaviors(p. 56)
• Commitment and Follow-Up(p. 58)
• Key Terms for Study(p. 59)
• Chapter 4 Ethical and Professional Issues(p. 63)
• The Need for Ethics(p. 63)
• Use of Paraprofessionals(p. 63)
• Self-Awareness and Countertransference(p. 64)
• Dual Relationships(p. 65)
• Confidentiality(p. 65)
• Elder Abuse Reporting Act(p. 66)
• Child Abuse Reporting Act(p. 66)
• Informed Consent(p. 67)
• Supervision and Training(p. 67)
• Burnout and Secondary Posttraumatic Stress Disorder(p. 68)
• Definitions of Burnout(p. 68)
• Symptoms of Burnout(p. 69)
• Causes of Burnout(p. 69)
• Prevention of Burnout(p. 70)
• A Study of Community Crisis Workers(p. 70)
• Key Terms for Study(p. 72)
• Chapter 5 When Crisis Is a Danger(p. 74)
• Suicide(p. 75)
• Symptoms and Clues(p. 76)
• Suicide Assessment(p. 77)
• A Phenomenological Look at Suicide(p. 78)
• Suicide Prevention(p. 80)
• Interventions(p. 82)
• Managing a Client Who is a Danger to Others(p. 86)
• Psychotic Breakdowns and The Gravely Disabled(p. 88)
• Key Terms for Study(p. 90)
• Chapter 6 Developmental Crises(p. 91)
• Evolutional Crises(p. 96)
• First Stage of a Family: Creating a Marital Subsystem(p. 96)
• Creating a Parental Subsystem(p. 96)
• Creating Sibling Subsystems(p. 97)
• Creating Grandparental Subsystems(p. 97)
• Situational Crises Related to Adolescence(p. 98)
• Teen Pregnancy(p. 98)
• Gangs(p. 99)
• Runaways(p. 100)
• Crises of Old Age(p. 102)
• Alzheimer's Disease(p. 102)
• Elder Abuse(p. 104)
• Key Terms for Study(p. 105)
• Chapter 7 Cultural Sensitivity in Crisis Intervention(p. 108)
• The Role of Ethnicity and Gender on Help-Seeking Attitudes(p. 109)
• Development of Culturally Sensitive Psychotherapists(p. 109)
• Latinos(p. 111)
• Mexican American Families(p. 112)
• Mexican American Cultural Patterns(p. 113)
• Issues Related to Different Rates of Acculturation(p. 114)
• A Comparison of Mainstream Culture Values and Latino Resistance in the Mental Health Field(p. 115)
• African American Families(p. 117)
• The Role of Religion(p. 117)
• Problem-Solving Model(p. 118)
• Asian American Families(p. 119)
• Crisis Intervention Issues(p. 119)
• Southeast Asians and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder(p. 120)
• The Family Structure(p. 121)
• Shame and Obligation(p. 122)
• The Communication Process(p. 123)
• Key Terms for Study(p. 125)
• People with Disabilities and Crisis Intervention(p. 126)
• Responses to the Disabled(p. 127)
• The Disabled Population(p. 128)
• Vulnerable Subgroups(p. 128)
• Crisis Intervention Strategies for Persons with Disabilities(p. 132)
• Key Terms for Study(p. 134)
• The Subculture of Homosexuality(p. 135)
• Typical Issues Facing Homosexuals in Crisis(p. 135)
• Coming Out(p. 136)
• Key Terms for Study(p. 137)
• Chapter 8 Crises of Loss(p. 139)
• Death and Dying(p. 139)
• Kubler-Ross's Five Stages of Death and Dying(p. 140)
• Tasks of Mourning(p. 141)
• Manifestations of Normal Grief(p. 143)
• Determinants of Grief(p. 144)
• Intervention(p. 144)
• Counseling Principles and Procedures(p. 145)
• When the Loss Is One's Child(p. 147)
• Divorce and Separation(p. 150)
• Intervention(p. 151)
• Children and Divorce(p. 151)
• Crises Related to Blended Families(p. 152)
• Key Terms for Study(p. 154)
• Chapter 9 Crises Related to AIDS and HIV(p. 156)
• Basic Statistics about AIDS(p. 158)
• Acronyms/Terms(p. 158)
• AIDS: A Brief Outline History(p. 158)
• What Is AIDS?(p. 160)
• Symptoms of AIDS(p. 161)
• Misconceptions(p. 161)
• Modes of Transmission(p. 162)
• Progression of HIV Infection to AIDS(p. 162)
• AIDS Testing(p. 163)
• Treatment(p. 163)
• Social Aspects(p. 164)
• Intervention(p. 165)
• Treatment Issues(p. 165)
• Key Terms for Study(p. 171)
• Chapter 10 Crises Related to Substance Abuse(p. 173)
• Recognizing Substance Dependence and Substance Abuse(p. 175)
• Criteria for Substance Dependence(p. 175)
• Criteria for Substance Abuse(p. 176)
• Types of Drug Abuse Crises(p. 176)
• Medical Crises(p. 176)
• Legal Crises(p. 177)
• Psychological Crises(p. 178)
• Spiritual Crises(p. 178)
• Alcohol: The Leading Abused Drug(p. 178)
• Facts on Alcoholism and Alcohol-Related Problems(p. 179)
• The Alcoholic(p. 179)
• Intervention(p. 182)
• The Co-Dependent(p. 187)
• Adult Children of Alcoholics(p. 188)
• Treatment for the Co-Dependent(p. 188)
• 12-Step Groups(p. 191)
• The Role of Hospitalization(p. 191)
• Cocaine, Crack Cocaine, and Speed (Amphetamines)(p. 192)
• Effects of Cocaine and Speed on the Family(p. 195)
• Marijuana(p. 195)
• LSD (LySergic acid Diethyamide)(p. 198)
• Heroin(p. 199)
• Key Terms for Study(p. 200)
• Chapter 11 PTSD and Crises of Victimization(p. 202)
• Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)(p. 202)
• Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Defined(p. 204)
• Diagnostic Criteria for Acute Stress Disorder(p. 205)
• Critical Incident and Debriefing(p. 206)
• Interventions After a Critical Incident(p. 207)
• Child Abuse as a Trauma(p. 208)
• Types of Child Abuse(p. 209)
• How to Detect Child Abuse(p. 209)
• How to Detect Sexual Abuse(p. 211)
• Association of Child Abuse with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder(p. 212)
• Reporting Child Abuse(p. 212)
• Interventions with an Abused Child(p. 213)
• The Battering Parent(p. 215)
• Incest(p. 216)
• Spousal Abuse(p. 218)
• How Are Children Affected?(p. 220)
• Common Myths(p. 220)
• A Historical Perspective(p. 220)
• Why Do the Women Stay?(p. 221)
• The Battering Cycle(p. 221)
• The Battered Woman Syndrome(p. 224)
• Intervening(p. 226)
• The Batterer(p. 229)
• A Phenomenological View of the Batterer(p. 229)
• Intervention(p. 230)
• Sexual Assault(p. 232)
• Common Myths and Facts about Rape(p. 233)
• What Is Rape?(p. 233)
• Rape Trauma Syndrome(p. 234)
• Intervention(p. 235)
• Key Terms for Study(p. 238)
• Epilogue(p. 240)
• References(p. 242)
• Author Index(p. 249)
• Subject Index(p. 251)