This classic volume includes developments in crisis intervention practices and services, a field that was permanently altered on September 11th, 2001. With 15 new chapters and a new section on disaster mental health and frontline crisis intervention strategies, this book gives professionals access to specific guidelines, practice techniques, protective factors, 60 case study applications, and evidence-based crisis intervention strategies that maximize opportunities for rapid assessment and crisis resolution. This highly ...
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This classic volume includes developments in crisis intervention practices and services, a field that was permanently altered on September 11th, 2001. With 15 new chapters and a new section on disaster mental health and frontline crisis intervention strategies, this book gives professionals access to specific guidelines, practice techniques, protective factors, 60 case study applications, and evidence-based crisis intervention strategies that maximize opportunities for rapid assessment and crisis resolution. This highly practical, timely, and reader-friendly handbook addresses the full range of acute substance abuse, battering, sexually transmitted diseases, bio-terrorism, and terrorist bombings. This new edition remains essential reading for crisis workers, crisis counselors, behavioral health clinicians, emergency service workers, disaster mental health specialists, and social workers.
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