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Best-selling author Richard K. James presents the latest skills and techniques for handling real crisis situations. Authoritative and based on the author's extensive experience teaching crisis intervention courses, the new edition presents a six-step model for dealing with people in crisis: Defining the Problem, Ensuring Client Safety, Providing Support, Examining Alternatives, Making Plans, and Obtaining Commitment. Using this model, the author then builds specific strategies for handling a myriad of different crisis situations - in many cases providing the dialogue that you might use as a nurse, minister, police officer, counselor, or other practitioner. At the end of this course, you will have developed skills and strategies that you can take out of the classroom and onto the street.
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Taking an applied, experiential approach, James (University of Memphis) presents general principles and skills of crisis intervention, and describes methods for handling different types of crises, such as sexual assault, chemical dependency, violence in schools and other institutions, and disasters. There is also a chapter on counseling human service workers experiencing stress and burnout. Detailed cases include scripts from real interventions, offering counseling students a good idea of what crisis workers encounter in actual crisis situations. This sixth edition discusses responses to recent events, such as the Virginia Tech shootings, and contains expanded information on multicultural issues and on using the Internet and telephone in crisis counseling. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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