Crisis Intervention Handbook

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Crisis Intervention Handbook is written by Albert R. Roberts and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0199884501 (ISBN 10) and 9780199884506 (ISBN 13).

This classic volume includes developments in crisis intervention practices and services, a field that was permanently altered on September 11th, 2001. With 15 new chapters and a new section on disaster mental health and frontline crisis intervention strategies, this book gives professionals access to specific guidelines, practice techniques, protective factors, 60 case study applications, and evidence-based crisis intervention strategies that maximize opportunities for rapid assessment and crisis resolution. This highly practical, timely, and reader-friendly handbook addresses the full range of acute substance abuse, battering, sexually transmitted diseases, bio-terrorism, and terrorist bombings. This new edition remains essential reading for crisis workers, crisis counselors, behavioral health clinicians, emergency service workers, disaster mental health specialists, and social workers.