Strategic Interventions for People in Crisis, Trauma, and Disaster Revised Edition

Name: Strategic Interventions for People in Crisis, Trauma, and Disaster Revised Edition
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ISBN: 9780415950718

ISBN-10: 0415950716

ISBN-13: 9780415950718

Edition: 2nd 2007 (Revised)

Authors: Diane Sullivan Everstine, Louis Everstine, Paul Watzlawick

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With the stressful turbulence of our present culture, more and more clinicians are called upon to intervene in crisis situations. This volume provides them with both the theoretical background and practical techniques to help people learn from crisis experiences and move toward change and growth.

Book details

List price: $220.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 8/15/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 340
Size: 6.26" wide x 9.06" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.518
Language: English



Foreword



Introduction


Acknowledgments


Emergency Psychology


The People


The Problem


The Center


Some Facts and Figures


Beyond the Model


Communication Principles for High Stress or Dangerous Situations


Clinical Intervention in Emergency Situations


The First Telephone Contact with a Person in Crisis


Responding to an Emergency


Arriving at the Scene of an Emergency Without the Police


Basic Steps and Goals. Strategies for Defusing Emergencies


Hospitalizing Persons in Crisis


Deciding Whether or Not to Hospitalize


Assessment and Plan


Involuntary Hospitalization


The Homicidal or Dangerous Person


A Case Study Illustrating the Hospitalization Process


A Case Illustrating that Things are Not Always What They Appear to Be


Domestic Violence


The Scope of the Problem


Couples who Fight Violently


A Violent Husband


A Case of Murder Reconsidered


Battered Spouses


A Battered Wife


The Battered Child


What is Child Abuse? General Diagnostic Indications


Physical Indications


Assessing the Safety of a Home


Treatment of Child Abuse


Sexual Assault on Children


The Child Victim


The Adolescent Victim


The Incestuous Family


Victims of Violent Crimes


General Characteristics of Victim Behavior


Victims of Prolonged Terror


The Adult Woman Victim of Rape


General Considerations


Treatment Techniques


Sexual Factors in Rape


The Criminal Justice Process


The Support Network


Suicide


Etiology of Suicidal Behavior


An Interactional View


Methods of Prevention


A Serious Attempt


Anatomy of a Suicide


Clinical Ethics and Legal Responsibilities


General Principles


Duty to Hospitalize


Duty to Warn


Duty to Report


Special Characteristics of Emergency Work


Index