Crisis intervention and trauma response : theory and practice / Barbara Rubin Wainrib, Ellin L. Bloch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wainrib, Barbara Rubin.

Contributor:

Bloch, Ellin L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crisis intervention (Mental health services).

Post-traumatic stress disorder--Prevention.

Post-traumatic stress disorder.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Springer Pub. Co., c1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

""The doctor said that the surgery on my wife's cancer was a failure and that there was nothing more that they could do. I felt as if I was in a bad movie, and everything around me had come to a halt."". ---James G., husband of a cancer victim. Crisis Intervention and Trauma Response are short term, problem-oriented, therapeutic interventions whose goal is to produce constructive change in the life situation of the client as quickly and directly as possible. Written in a lively and informative style, the authors present their successful General Crisis Response model for intervention. Using rea

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 Crisis, Trauma, and You: Theories of Crisis and Trauma; 3 How We Respond to Crisis and Trauma; 4 Principles and Models of Intervention; 5 Assessment for Crisis and Trauma; 6 Suicide and Violence: Assessment and Intervention; 7 Putting It All Together: The Pragmatics; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-78684-855-4

1-281-80602-1

9786611806026

0-8261-9694-2

OCLC:

476261997