Crisis intervention : using tipping points to achieve transformative change in therapy / by J. Scott Fraser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fraser, J. Scott, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychotherapy.

Crisis intervention (Mental health services).

Crisis Intervention.

Medical Subjects:

Crisis Intervention.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 263 pages)

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, [2025]

Summary:

"This book aims to revise the traditional notion of crisis and how to do crisis intervention and brief therapy. Most practitioners across helping disciplines have been taught to assess danger and reduce risks. This book will explain how to seize the opportunity of crises and tip them toward rapid resolution. It will help readers view crises as time-limited windows of opportunity to move all the people involved in new and positive directions in their lives. The book will teach a viewpoint and model for understanding crises in their context, engaging with all involved using their values, culture, and language, honoring their goals, and changing vicious cycles into virtuous ones. It will also show how different types of crises nonetheless reflect similar vicious cycles, and how each of those vicious cycles can be successfully tipped toward resolution by embracing what we refer to as the process of change model of crisis and crisis intervention. While this perspective can often seem complex and different from our everyday views of our world, perhaps a few different crisis examples along with their intervention strategies will help. This book is divided into two parts, with Part I laying out the foundation of a process view of change, the evolution of crises, and the process of change model of crisis intervention and brief therapy. Part II traces effective interventions across a range of different crises and drives home how they all fit with the process of change model. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)." --Preface.

Contents:

Introduction: Tipping point interventions and the process of change

I. Crisis, chaos, catastrophe, and the process of change

Traditional crisis intervention and its problems

The theory base for the process of change model in crisis intervention and brief therapy

Viewing crises through the process of change

Doing crisis intervention from the process view

II. Tipping point interventions across crises: Following the process of change model

Trauma: Stress, disorder, and growth

Suicidal crises: Hazardous intersections

Grief and mourning

Intimate partner violence: Time-limited windows of opportunity

Sexual assault: Intervening in culturally shaped crises

Tipping points and windows of opportunity

References

Index

About the author.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Washington, D.C. : American Psychological Association, 2025.

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Other Format:

Print version: Crisis intervention

ISBN:

9781433843358

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