Crisis Intervention Handbook: Assessment, Treatment, and Research

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Summary: An all-inclusive resource for crisis workers
Review: As a former crisis intervention worker I am impressed with the all-inclusive nature of this book which covers crisis intervention across multiple populations and practice settings with sensitivity to cultural diversity. As a current social work faculty member teaching crisis intervention course content, I am impressed that Dr. Robert's book is grounded in clinical research with contributing authors who are the experts in this field. A must read for all crisis workers and an outstanding book to incorporate into the classroom. Very impressive!

Rating:
Summary: An all-inclusive resource for crisis workers
Review: As a former crisis intervention worker I am impressed with the all-inclusive nature of this book which covers crisis intervention across multiple populations and practice settings with sensitivity to cultural diversity. As a current social work faculty member teaching crisis intervention course content, I am impressed that Dr. Robert's book is grounded in clinical research with contributing authors who are the experts in this field. A must read for all crisis workers and an outstanding book to incorporate into the classroom. Very impressive!

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Summary: Best Book on Crisis Intervention
Review: Dr. Al Roberts has edited an outstanding collection of writings that are cutting-edge and authored by the leading experts in crisis intervention. In this new second edition Dr. Roberts and his colleagues present the most current information on crisis intervention and apply it in diverse settings with suicidal adolescents, school violence problems, battered women, adult survivors of incest, HIV-Positive women, and culturally diverse clients. Authors weave relevant case examples that superbly illustrate how clinicians implement interventions that authors articulated and recommended for specific situations. No other text offers such complete coverage of the most critical issues facing society today. Clinicians involved in crisis intervention in social work, psychology or any other area involved with helping people in crisis will find this handbook a tremendous source on the most efficacious and latest developments in crisis intervention theory and practice.

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Summary: Best Book on Crisis Intervention
Review: Dr. Al Roberts has edited an outstanding collection of writings that are cutting-edge and authored by the leading experts in crisis intervention. In this new second edition Dr. Roberts and his colleagues present the most current information on crisis intervention and apply it in diverse settings with suicidal adolescents, school violence problems, battered women, adult survivors of incest, HIV-Positive women, and culturally diverse clients. Authors weave relevant case examples that superbly illustrate how clinicians implement interventions that authors articulated and recommended for specific situations. No other text offers such complete coverage of the most critical issues facing society today. Clinicians involved in crisis intervention in social work, psychology or any other area involved with helping people in crisis will find this handbook a tremendous source on the most efficacious and latest developments in crisis intervention theory and practice.

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Summary: Crisis Intervention Handbook
Review: Dr. Roberts' newest edition of the Crisis Intervention Handbook will be an exceptional resource for all mental healthe professionals. However, the first ten chapters which combine Roberts' seven step model of crisis intervention and solution focused brief therapy will be especially useful to school counselors. Counselors will refer to this book time and again when school and family crises occur. I highly recommend this book.

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Summary: Publisher comments
Review: Now expanded and fully updated, Crisis Intervention Handbook: Assessment, Treatment, and Research, Second Edition, focuses on crisis intervention services for persons who are victims of natural disasters, school-based and home-based violence, violent crimes, and personal or family crises. It applies a unifying model of crisis intervention, making it appropriate for front-line crisis workers--clinical psychologists, social workers, psychiatric-mental health nurses--and graduate students who need to know the latest steps and methods for intervening effectively with persons in acute crisis.

This book documents the results of the editor's national survey of 24-hour crisis hotlines and crisis intervention programs throughout the United States. Approximately, 35 million individuals in acute crisis telephone or walk into a crisis intervention program each year. This is the first comprehensive handbook that prepares the crisis counselor, social worker, and trained volunteer for rapid assessment and timely crisis intervention in the 21st century. In this completely revised and updated classic, Dr. Roberts and 37 clinical experts have set the standard of care and short-term treatment for persons in trauma and acute crisis. This book includes 21 comprehensive chapters, a detailed table of contents, and a thorough glossary of 150 terms.

In the eloquent words of Dr. Ann Wolbert Burgess, D.N.Sc., FAAN: "Whenever you read a book by Dr. Albert R. Roberts, you do so in clear anticipation of excellence. In this book, Dr. Roberts has even surpassed my high expectations. . . . I predict that this collaborative volume will become the classic definitive work on crisis intervention for the important years ahead . . . Each chapter focuses on a different major crisis precipitating event, such as turbulent divorces, adolescent suicides, airplane crashes and fatalities of family members, date rape on the college campus, shootings in the public schools, battering of women and their children, polydrug abuse, HIV-positive women, patients in intensive care units, and adults who are survivors of incest. This book includes many illuminating case-studies which illustrate how best to intervene in the aftermath of a crisis precipitant of traumatic event . . . This all inclusive resource provides everything mental health clinicians, crisis counselors, healthcare specialists, crisis intervenors, and trained volunteers need to know about crisis intervention. This book is a stunning achievement and landmark work." (Dr. Burgess coined the term Rape Trauma Syndrome after completing the first longitudinal study of rape victims who originally were seen at the Boston City Hospital Emergency Room. She is currently the van Ameringen Professor of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing, School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, and a consultant to the F.B.I. Training Academy in Quantico, Virginia.)

And more praise: "This is one of the finest clinical practice books because it fits perfectly with psychologists' emphasis on empirically-supported and manualized treatments with a distinct emphasis on crisis intervention. It is the first book to thoroughly apply a strengths and resilience model to crisis intervention. This exceptionally well written and newly revised edition includes 21 original chapters by 34 expert practitioners and clinical professors. An absolute 'must-have' sourcebook for every mental health practitioner's desk."--Thomas L. Jackson, Ph.D., Professor and Director of Clinical Training, Department of Psychology, University of Arkansas, and Chair of the Committee of Accreditation of the American Psychological Association

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Summary: A Must-have for Crisis prevention and intervention
Review: This vitally important and comprehensive handbook provides informed citizens, healthcare specialists, and mental health professionals with everything they need to know about crisis episodes and crisis interventions. This compelling, yet practical book is vitally needed and provides the most comprehensive information to date on everything from school violence, date rape, 24-hour mobile crisis units to hospital emergency room crises. This book is a rare gem for every graduate student and practitioner in the human services field.