Paperback, Cengage TAGS: CSS3060 FCSS3060
Based on the authors' extensive experience in crisis intervention and teaching crisis intervention courses, this authoritative text presents the latest skills and techniques for handling crisis situations. CRISIS INTERVENTION STRATEGIES, 8th Edition features the authors' task model, which illustrates and elucidates the process of dealing with people in crisis. Using this model, the authors build specific strategies for handling a myriad of different crisis situations, accompanied in many cases with dialogue that a practitioner might use when working with the individual in crisis. Two new chapters systematically illuminate the topics of families in crisis and legal and ethical issues in crisis intervention. New videos in MindTap (available with the text) correlate with the text and demonstrate crisis intervention techniques for students who must not only understand the theoretical underpinnings of crisis intervention theories, but also apply them in crisis situations.
What's New
- A new Chapter 15, "Legal and Ethical Issues in Crisis Intervention," serves as a helpful guide to working with typical knotty problems faced by crisis workers in different venues. The authors include four classic examples of environments and issues where crisis occurs (e.g., potential sexual abuse at a disaster shelter) and analyze the ethical, legal, moral, and political ramifications of each.
- A new Chapter 11, "The Family in Crisis," discusses the topic in a systematic manner. This chapter, as well as Chapter 17, "Disaster Response," introduces the role of spirituality and religion in crises.
- Mindfulness, a new and emerging treatment technique in crisis intervention, is introduced in Chapter 9, "Sexual Assault."
- The previous edition's chapters on substance abuse and crisis/hostage negotiation are updated and available online in MindTap®.
- The new MindTap® for Crisis Intervention Strategies, is an online learning platform offering customizable content, course analytics, an e-reader, and an applied learning experience -- all delivered within your current learning management system. With its rich array of media assets -- all tagged by learning objective and Bloom's Taxonomy level -- MindTap engages students, guides them toward mastery of basic concepts, and advances their critical thinking abilities.
Features
- A task model gives students and practitioners a systematic way of dealing with people in crisis: Defining the Problem, Ensuring Client Safety, Providing Support, Examining Alternatives, Making Plans, and Obtaining Commitment.
- The scenarios in each chapter are designed to put the student in a seat beside the crisis workers as they handle clients. They also discuss why and what the workers are doing. Cases with transcripts of dialogue help illustrate the techniques described and let students "see" the conversations crisis workers might have in dealing with a client in crisis.
- A unique triage assessment technique provides students with tools for assessing the severity of the client crisis.
- "Focus on the Crisis Worker" sections present techniques that can keep crisis workers from psychological, physical, ethical, and legal harm.
- Classroom exercises and learning activities, derived from real-life cases, enable students to practice their skills and "try on" the role of crisis interventionist in the safety of the classroom.
- A multicultural emphasis highlights how crisis and culture interact, including how SAFETY social locations (stability, affect, friction, environment, temperament, and yearning) apply to the work of crisis intervention when dealing with people from diverse backgrounds.