A Guide to Crisis Intervention

By Kristi Kanel

Book Overview

A GUIDE TO CRISIS INTERVENTION, 5th Edition covers the fundamentals of situational and developmental crises, how they occur, and how you can manage them. Providing practical nuts-and-bolts information, Kanel discusses traditional counseling models as they relate to crisis intervention, and shows how they have been incorporated into her model, the ABC Model of Crisis Intervention. You can use the ABC Model in any mental health setting with anyone in a crisis situation. Examples help you develop an understanding of the psychological and behavioral dynamics associated with the many types of crisis situations. Case studies and scripts help you learn exactly what to say to clients undergoing a crisis, whether the crisis is developmental; related to trauma, post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), substance abuse, loss, illness, or disabilities; or arises from personal victimization. Tables guide you in conducting suicide assessments and mental status exams. Although the author focuses on what clinicians do rather than on a review of research and literature, she provides more than enough information to help you educate clients about the nature of their crisis.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1285739906
• ISBN13: 9781285739908
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

Crisis basics

This book covers the basics of crisis intervention and offers a broad intro to counseling/psychotherapy. It gives very useful info on family, cultural, medical, substance abuse, and other issues. Its focus is on developing the therapeutic relationship, understanding the crisis, reframing to look for whatever good can come from it, and enhancing coping and functioning.

Wonderful!

This book was brand new and came in the wrapping. Fast shipping and a great price! Will buy from this user again!!!

Simple and understandable

This a great book for any student in the counseling field or for people who work with people who are in crisis. Kanel's book is very readable and provides an excellent framework for helping during a crisis. She provides excellent case examples (what to say and what not to say) and her ABC model for crisis intervention is a great model to assess and address crisis states in people.

Excellent, comprehensive book on Crisis Intervention!

I have been in the field for twenty years. Asked to teach a course to students at a nearby university, I ordered this book! I find that it is very readable and interesting and very much like the work I have been doing for the last two decades! Students will learn first hand information of what makes up crisis work, and become familiar with the many facets of crisis work. Down to earth writing and very real case scenarios! Excellent resource!

helpful for lay reader and professional

this is a complete guide for anyone interested in self improvemen