Crisis Intervention Strategies
Language: English
Pages: 748
ISBN: 1305271475
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Based on the authors' extensive experience in crisis intervention and teaching crisis intervention courses, this authoritative text presents the latest skills and techniques for handling crisis situations. CRISIS INTERVENTION STRATEGIES, 8th Edition features the authors' task model, which illustrates and elucidates the process of dealing with people in crisis. Using this model, the authors build specific strategies for handling a myriad of different crisis situations, accompanied in many cases with dialogue that a practitioner might use when working with the individual in crisis. Two new chapters systematically illuminate the topics of families in crisis and legal and ethical issues in crisis intervention. New videos in MindTap (available with the text) correlate with the text and demonstrate crisis intervention techniques for students who must not only understand the theoretical underpinnings of crisis intervention theories, but also apply them in crisis situations.
participating in such thinking, and as the delusion increases, it becomes difficult to extricate oneself from it. Yet grandiose thinking, no matter how bizarre, should not be denied. CW: (Inappropriate and sarcastic.) Come on, now. The CIA isn’t really listening to an auto mechanic by electronic eavesdropping. Certainly they’ve got better things to do than that. Why do you believe that? CW: (Appropriate and empathic.) It’s pretty clear that you really believe the CIA is listening to you. When did
tend to be at higher risk than returnees from Afghanistan (Hoge et al., 2004). Whether these rates are due to the somewhat “cleaner” type of warfare waged so far in Afghanistan, where the enemy is more distinct and identifiable, or whether some other factors are extant is difficult to determine. However, from preliminary data and research it certainly appears that Veterans Administration hospitals are not going to go out of the PTSD business anytime soon. DYNAMICS OF PTSD Diagnostic
fuller, more meaningful responses if we ask questions that are not dead ends. Open-ended questions usually start with what or how or ask for more clarification or details. Openended questions encourage clients to respond with full statements and at deeper levels of meaning. Remember that open-ended questions are used to elicit from clients something about their feelings, thoughts, and behaviors and are particularly helpful in the Problem Exploration step in the six-step intervention model. Here
runaround and bureaucratic red tape. 7. Whenever necessary, without engendering dependency, go with clients to the referral agencies to assist and to ensure that effective communication takes place. 8. Write thank-you messages (with copies to their bosses) to persons who are particularly helpful to you and your clients. 9. Don’t criticize fellow professionals or the agencies they represent, and don’t gossip about either workers or agencies. 10. Keep accurate records of referral activities, so you
representation of how clients are taken care of who walk into or are brought to a community mental health facility. This clinic’s catchment area includes a number of housing projects, the downtown area, the University of Tennessee medical facility, the city hospital, private hospitals that have inpatient psychiatric facilities, the Memphis Veterans Administration Hospital, the Memphis Mental Health Institute (a state psychiatric hospital), the county jail, several halfway shelters for drug