Crisis Intervention Strategies, 7th Edition

This authoritative best-selling text presents the latest skills and techniques for handling real crisis situations. The authors six-step model clearly illustrates and elucidates the process of dealing with people in crisis: Defining the Problem Ensuring Client Safety Providing Support Examining Alternatives Making Plans and Obtaining Commitment. Using this model the authors then build specific strategies for handling a myriad of different crisis situations accompanied in many cases with the dialogue that a practitioner might use when working with the individual in crisis.