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Handle any crisis situation with ease with A GUIDE TO CRISIS INTERVENTION! This practical nuts-and-bolts guide provides you with the skills necessary to effectively manage crises. Using the comprehensive ABC model of crisis intervention, this counseling text keeps you up-to-date on the latest information regarding crises. Case examples and scripts that show what to actually say provide you with actual examples of dialogue with the client illustrating the ABC model. Tables that outline key points such as history of crisis intervention, contributions, suicide assessment, and death and dying issues provide you with a framework in which to assess the client.

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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
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
The ABC Model of Crisis Intervention	p. 29
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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