Main description:

This book provides a practical guide to crisis intervention. It emphasizes the role of violence, patient suicide, long-term sequelae of trauma, clinical assessment and risk management, professional boundaries and burn-out, and the neurophysiology of trauma, as well as the needs of underserved patient populations including minority group members, older adults, gays and lesbians, and children. It features critical reviews of controversial topics, including EMDR, critical incident stress debriefing, recovered memories, dissociative identity disorder, and alternative medicine.

Contents:

1. Introductory Aspects of Crisis Intervention and Trauma Counseling.
2. The Social Psychology of Trauma: What Clinicians Need to Know.
3. A Step-Wise Plan for Intervention.
4. Post Traumatic Stress: The Need for a Multidimensional Approach.
5. Long-Term Sequela of Trauma.
6. Patient Suicide: Clinical Assessment and Management.
7. Violence: What Is This Person Going To Do?
8. Helping Therapists Cope: Patient Suicide and Burnout.
9. Death and Dying, Partner Abuse, and Other Subtypes of Trauma.
10. Violence in Social Settings: the Workplace, School, and Community.
11. Underserved Patient Populations: Children, Adolescents, Older Adults, and Minority Group Members.
12. The Future of Crisis Intervention.
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