Crisis Intervention Strategies

This practical book offers readers a comprehensive set of skills and case intervention strategies they can adapt to virtually any crisis situation.The authors draw on their own experiences as well as from interviews with crisis intervention experts to offer contemporary human service workers a text focused on how, when, and what to do; a series of best bets for specific crisis situations. Offering practical solutions to the daily problems human service workers face on the job, the text enhances theories with case material, dialogues, and scripts from actual live interventions. It is the most comprehensive and thorough book available on crisis intervention.