High Risk Clients: Evidence-Based Assessment & Clinical Tools to Recognize and Effectively Respond to Mental Health Crises

by Paul Brasler

Overview

High Risk Clients provides a comprehensive and concise resource that you will turn to time after time to effectively intervene and keep clients safe. Suicide assessment & minimizing risk with realistic safety planning, Recognize medical emergencies that present with psychological symptoms, Strategies for trauma-informed care, Tools and treatment protocols for substance abuse, Prepare for the risk of violent behavior, Downloadable assessments and handouts, Practice case studies

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781683731986
Publisher:	Pesi Inc
Publication date:	08/06/2019
Pages:	205
Product dimensions:	6.80(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Paul Brasler, MA, MSW, LCSW, has spent his career on the front line of high risk settings. He is currently the head of the behavioral health unit at a nonprofit health center. He has trained thousands of clinicians & professionals across the country in successful crisis management.

Table of Contents

About the Author iii

Acknowledgements ix

Preface xi

1 What Is a Crisis? 1

2 Assessment 9

3 Diagnosis 61

4 Inability to Care for Self 77

5 Suicide 97

6 Violence 115

7 Medical vs. Mental Problems 129

8 Trauma 139

9 Substance Abuse 155

10 Our Response and Caring for Ourselves 193

References 201