Main description:

* Supports the training and development of school crisis responders across disciplines, by sharing narrative studies about actual traumatic events
* Highlights the multi-phased, multi-disciplinary nature of school crisis response, emphasizing the need for effective coordination, collaboration, and evidence-based approaches
* Illustrates the benefits of having conceptual frameworks such as the National Association of School Psychologists' PREPaRE model to guide prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery, to navigate the chaos of traumatic events
* Describes application of learned concepts, interventions and skills during responses to high incidence traumatic events (i.e. death of student; death of teacher)

Contents:

SECTION 1 Team Planning and Advocacy: Establishing a Crisis Response Team 1. Accidental Death of a Student 2. Death of a Colleague: Responding Alone 3. Homicide of an Elementary School Student 4. Establishing a Crisis Response Team SECTION II Team Formation: Implementing the Team and Establishing Credibility 5. Training and Team Building 6. House Fire 7. Essential Elements of Crisis Response 8. Coping with a Drowning 9. Triage: Casting a Broad Net 10. Death of a Kindergarten Teacher 11. Engaging Children to Work Through Grief 12. Cultural Responsiveness When a Teacher Dies SECTION III Team Development: Building Skills, Caring for Clients and Ourselves 13. Media Message: Mutual Benefit or More Trauma? 14. Death in the Classroom: Severe Emotional Trauma 15. Memorials and Funerals 16. Being Present: In the Skin of the Responder 17. Betrayal of Trust 18. Care for the Caregiver: In the Eye of the Storm 19. Death of an English Teacher SECTION IV Team Maintenance: Sharing Leadership, Expanding Knowledge, Ongoing Challenges 20. Disengagement and Demobilization 21. Leadership and Teamwork 22. Homicide of a High School Student 23. Systems Thinking