Anonymous
Posted May 2, 2007
The Crisis Intervention Handbook by Albert R. Roberts along with his other book Crisis Management are great tools if for anyone headed towards counseling or other positions within the field of Crisis Intervention. The Crisis Intervention Handbook explores everything imaginable within this field, from Robert's Seven-Stage Model to the ACT model to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and even goes to explain possible crisis endured because of 9/11 and what crisis could develop for our society if terrorism or weapons of mass destruction are ever used. This book is well researched and very in-depth. This book really helped me understand how to approach people in crisis. I strongly recommend this book to anyone interested in Crisis Intervention and Management.
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Posted September 16, 2000
The Crisis Intervention Handbook is an original and essential resource that incorporates a strengths perspective and shifts our approach to crisis intervention. This is the most practical and up-to-date guidebook of clinical interventions with children, youth, and families in crisis available. Comprehensive and rich in case examples, it is a must for mental health professionals in the schools and community.
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Posted August 22, 2000
An outstanding book that is comprehensive in that it addresses assessment,treatment and research across multiple populations and practice settings. Timely, in that in addition to addressing family violence, divorce, adolescent suicide, and mobile crisis units; it also addresses crisis intervention in schools, with HIV positive women, and addictions. A very impressive book with outstanding contributing authors who are experts in the field. A must for every crisis intervention worker's resource library.
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Posted April 18, 2000
Dr. Albert Roberts and his team of 37 experts from around the United States have written an outstanding and compelling book on individuals' and groups in life-threatening crisis situations. This vitally important and comprehensive handbook provides informed citizens, healthcare specialists, and mental health professionals with everything they need to know about crisis episodes and crisis interventions. This captivating, yet practical book provides hands-on help and resolution for acute crisis episodes ranging from school violence crisis prevention, date rape prevention, 24-hour mobile crisis units for the mentally ill to hospital emergency room crises and everything in-between. Many millions of people can be helped to avert a harmful crisis by reading this practical book of success stories. This book is a must-read for every graduate student and practitioner in the human services.
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Posted April 17, 2000
This second edition will fill a critical need for professionals dealing with acute crisis events, traumatic incidents, and community disasters. Dr. Roberts seven-stage model of crisis intervention lends itself to universal application across all types of crises: school shootings, dating and marital violence, drug overdoses, suicide attempts, and even category five hurricanes! A great value, only $49.95 for a clothbound volume.
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Posted April 17, 2000
Dr. Al Roberts has edited an exemplary collection of contemporary writings on crisis intervention authored by some of the leading experts in the field. In this second edition Dr. Roberts and his colleagues present the most current information on crisis intervention and apply it in diverse settings with suicidal adolescents, school violence problems, battered women, adult survivors of incest, HIV-Positive women, and culturally diverse clients. Authors weave relevant case examples that illustrate how clinicians implement intervention techniques that authors articulated and recommended for specific situations. No other text offers such complete coverage of the most critical issues facing society today. Clinicians involved in crisis intervention work in social work, psychology or any other area involved with helping people in crisis will find this handbook an excellent source on the latest developments in crisis intervention and practice.
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Overview
As a result of the growing amount of acute crisis events portrayed in the media that impact the lives of the general public, interest in crisis intervention, response teams, management, and stabilization has grown tremendously in the past decade. However, there exists little to no literature designed to give timely and comprehensive help for crisis intervention teams. This is a thorough revision of the first complete and authoritative handbook that prepares the crisis counselor for rapid assessment and timely crisis intervention in the 21st century. Expanded and fully updated, the Crisis Intervention Handbook: Assessment, Treatment, and Research, Third Edition focuses on crisis intervention services for persons who are victims of natural disasters, school-based and home-based violence, violent crimes, and personal or family crises. It applies a unifying model of crisis intervention, making it appropriate for front-line crisis workers-clinical psychologists, social workers, psychiatric-mental health nurses, and graduate students who need to know the latest steps and methods for intervening effectively with persons in acute crisis.
The book contains black-and-white illustrations.
Editorial Reviews
From the Publisher
"This is the most practical time-limited treatment book I have read in the past 10 years. It is timely, focused, straightforward, comprehensive, empowering, highly readable, and extremely valuable." --Ann Wolbert Burgess, RN, CS, D.N.Sc., FAAN, DACFE Professor of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing, Connell School of Nursing, Boston College
"Crisis Intervention Handbook, Third Edition, is an indespensable resource that offers intervention strategies, guidelines, and numerous case examples for practitioners. This book provides the most up-to-date approaches to deal with the crises and traumas of the 21st century, such as bioterrorism, terrorist attacks, and the use of weapons of mass destruction. A must-read for practitioners and students alike." --Phyllis Solomon, Ph.D., Professor, School of Social Work, Professor in Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
"Professor Albert R. Roberts's third edition of his now classic Intervention Handbook is an astute, comprehensive, and up-to-date volume for practitioners, responders, and scholars working in contemporary crisis intervention. Adding up to much more than the sum of its parts, [this handbook] is a must-have for the mental health-critical care specialist's personal library, college and university libraries, and public library reference section." --Richard L. Levenson, Jr., Psy.D., CTS, Licensed Psychologist, Managing Editor, International Journal of Emergency Mental Health
"This book is a must for social workers, psychologists, nurses, crisis counselors, and other human services professionals. It is a classic and timely volume on all aspects of crisis and crisis intervention. Dr. Roberts and his esteemed author team of 50 professors and clinicians have provided an exceptionally well-written, evidence-based, highly readable, insightful, practical, and pathfinding book." --C. Aaron McNeece, Ph.D., Dean and Walter W. Hudson Professor, School of Social Work, Florida State University
"With its emphasis on contemporary issues, Crisis Intervention Handbook, Third Edition, is the leading edge of knowledge in the field. Fifteen new chapters focus on the most important issues for the mental health and disaster relief professionals who respond to traumatized individuals and families in a post-9/11 world. The current need for culturally sensitive crisis intervention is critical, and Roberts's book is a powerful tool to meet the needs of first responders of all sorts." --Jeanne A. Clement, Ed.D., APRN-BC, FAAN, Associate Professor, Nursing and Psychiatry, Director, Specialty Program in Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing, College of Nursing, The Ohio State University
"Robert's third edition of the Crisis Intervention Handbook is an outstanding resource for clinicians and students in the helping professions. As in past editions, Roberts's crisis intervention model provides the foundation for the book. In each of the 32 chapters, clinical examples and up-to-date research findings are beautifully integrated in order to provide readers with specific assessment and practice guidance. The addition of two chapters dedicated to the evaluation of crisis intervention completes the book, making it an invaluable asset for current practitioners and students alike." --M. Elizabeth Vonk, M.S.W., Ph.D., Associate Professor, School of Social Work, University of Georgia
"This is a very worthwhile volume that will be valuable for most mental health professionals. It is a handbook that targets practitioners, and it provide rich clinical information, helpful tips, guidelines, and tools to be used in crisis intervention. Many psychologists should read the book..."--Psyccritiques
From The Critics
Reviewer: Pamela Marcus, RN, MSCS(Private Practice)Description: This book is a chronicle of the advances made in the last ten years in crisis intervention as well as a presentation of the editor's seven-stage model of intervention with the addition of sixteen new chapters and original chapter revisions.
Purpose: The editor uses research and trends in crisis intervention to provide a conceptual base that can be used by the crisis intervention professional. His model assists the crisis counselor to utilize an immediate, short term, and structured means of providing care that is geared to buoying up the individual's coping abilities for short term crisis resolution.
Audience: This book is written for graduate level clinicians in mental health services. This is an excellent reference to be used as a textbook in a graduate level program.
Features: This text is divided into five parts. In the overview the editor gives a comprehensive background of crisis intervention theories as well as the introduction of his model. He includes crisis assessment and treatment of children, victims of violence, health related crisis, and research. Different crisis intervention delivery systems are discussed.
Assessment: Since I reviewed the book I have begun using it as a teaching tool in the Crisis Intervention Service where I am the clinical director. The Robert's Model is particularly helpful for use as a conceptual basis for crisis intervention practice. Critical Incident Debriefing is also covered in a comprehensive manner and can reinforce learning for practitioners who are certified in CISM, as well as whet the appetite for clinicians who are not certified in this practice.
4 Stars! from Doody
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Table of Contents
Foreword - Ann Wolbert Burgess
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Introduction
Part I: Overview
1. Bridging the Past and Present to the Future of Crisis Intervention and Crisis Management, Albert R. Roberts
2. Lethality Assessments and Crisis Intervention with Persons Presenting with Suicidal Ideation, Albert R. Roberts and Kenneth R. Yeager
3. How to Work With Clients Strengths in Crisis Intervention: A Solution-Focused Approach, Gilbert J. Greene, Mo-Yee Lee, Rhonda Trask, and Judy Rheinsheld
4. Differentiating Between Stress, Acute Stress Disorder, Acute Crisis Episodes, Trauma and PTSD: Paradigm and Treatment Goals, Kenneth R. Yeager and Albert R. Roberts
5. Crisis Intervention for Persons Diagnosed with Clinical Disorders Based on the Stress- Crisis Continuum, Ann Wolbert Burgess and Albert R. Roberts
Part II: Disaster Mental Health and Crisis Intervention and Trauma Treatment-NEW Section
6. The ACT Model: Assessment, Crisis Intervention and Trauma Treatment in the Aftermath of Community Disasters and Terrorism Attacks, Albert R. Roberts
7. The Emerging Role of First Responders and Mental Health Clinicians in the Current Era of Weapons of Mass Destruction, Vincent Henry
8. Disaster Mental Health: Best Practices in Behavioral Health Response at the Pentagon, Rachel Kaul and Victor Welzant
9. Innovations in Group Crisis Intervention: Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD)and Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM), George S. Everly, Jr., Jeffrey M. Lating, and Jeffrey T. Mitchell
10. Crisis Support for Families of Emergency Responders, Cheryl Regehr
11. An Examination of the American Response to Bioterrorism: Handling the Threat and Aftermath through Crisis Intervention, Sophia F. Dziegielewski and Kristy Sumner
12. Crisis Intervention and the Loss of Life: Crisis Intervention vs. Grief Therapy, Joseph McBride and Eric D. Johnson
13. 13. Post-Trauma Interventions and Reflecting, Grieving, Reframing and Recreating Lost Connections: Basic Tasks, Gary Behrman and the late William J. Reid
Part III: Crisis Assessment and Intervention Models with Children and Youth
14. What He Knew Before it All Changed: A Narrative from Ground Zero, Linda G. Mills
15. Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Emergencies: Mobile Crisis Response, Jonathan Singer
16. Crisis Intervention With early adolescents who have suffered a significant loss, M.Sean O'Halloran, Ann M. Ingala, and Ellis Copeland
17. Adolescent Suicidality and Crisis Intervention, David A Jobes Alan L. Berman, Catherine E. Martin
18. Crisis Intervention at College Counseling Centers, Allen J Ottens, Linda L. Black and James F. Klein
Part IV: Crisis Intervention and Crisis Prevention with Victims of Violence
19. A Comprehensive Model for Crisis Intervention with Battered Woman and Their Children, Albert R. Roberts and Beverly Schenkman Roberts
20. Crisis Intervention with Stalking Victims, Karen Knox and Albert R. Roberts
21. School Crisis Intervention, Crisis Prevention, and Crisis Response, Scott Newgass and David Schonfeld
22. Crisis Intervention with Chronic School Violence Problems and Volatile Situations, Chris Stewart and Gordon MacNeil
Part V: Crisis Assessment and Crisis Intervention in Health-Related and Mental Health-Related Crises
23. Crisis Intervention in the Hospital Emergency Room, Mary Boes and Virginia McDermott
24. Crisis Intervention Application of Brief Solution-Focused Therapy in Addictions, Kenneth R Yeager and Thomas K Gregoire
25. Mobile Crisis Units: Frontline Community Mental Health Services, Jan Ligon
26. The Comprehensive Crisis Intervention Model of Safe Harbor Behavioral Health Crisis Services, Yvonne M. Eaton
27. Crisis Intervention in Critical and Intensive Care Units of General Hospitals, Norman M. Shulman and Amy L. Shewbert
28. The Crisis of Divorce: Cognitive-Behavioral and Constructivist Assessment and Treatment, Donald K. Granvold
29. Crisis Intervention with HIV-Positive Women, Sarah J. Lewis and Dianne F. Harrison
30. Crisis Intervention with Caregivers: Application of Roberts' Seven Stage Model, Allen J. Ottens and Donna Kirkpatrick Pinson
Part VI: Evidence-Based Practice and Research
31. The Crisis State Assessment Scale (CSAS): Development and Psychometrics, Sarah J. Lewis
32. Designs and Procedures for Evaluating Crisis Intervention, Sophia Dziegielewski and Gerald T. Powers
Glossary
Internet Website Directory
Author Index
Subject Index