Overview
The media's portrayal of acute crisis events that impact the lives of the general public, interest in crisis intervention, response teams, management, and stabilization has grown tremendously in the twenty-first century. Addressing the consequential demand for skills and methods to effectively manage acute crisis situations, the Crisis Intervention Handbook: Assessment, Treatment, and Research, Fourth Edition is specifically designed to address a fill] range of acute crisis episodes, including school violence, battering, adult substance abuse, and responses to mass disasters of terrorist attacks. Applying a unifying model of crisis intervention, this practical, timely, and reader-friendly handbook serves as an invaluable resource for front-line crisis workers/clinical psychologists, social workers, psychiatric-mental health nurses, and graduate students learning the latest steps and methods for intervening effectively with persons in acute crisis.
- | Author: Kenneth Yeager
- | Publisher: Oxford University Press
- | Publication Date: May 27, 2015
- | Number of Pages: 840 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover
- | ISBN-10: 0190201053
- | ISBN-13: 9780190201050
