Crisis Intervention and Trauma Response: Theory and Practice

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 s...