About UsThe Life Crisis Institute was founded in a university setting in 1986 to promote and conduct education, training, and research on crisis, psychosocial health, and related topics. Through consultation, workshops, and formal courses, the Institute provides a timely response to the growing need for a coordinated, interdisciplinary approach to education/training, model service delivery to people in crisis,
and relevant research. In particular, it focuses on crisis, trauma and psychological issues in a framework that situates personal life crises in sociocultural context. Institute partners recognize and respond to both the danger and opportunity inherent in life crises.
Institute associates work in a collaborative model. We encourage networking with mental health, emergency medical and community based agencies, as well as educational institutions, government, state and provincial bodies, corporations and individuals concerned with education/training, service delivery, and research on life crisis topics.
Lee Ann Hoff, Ph.D., a nurse-anthropologist and crisis specialist, is the founder of the Institute and author of the award-winning People in Crisis; Battered Women As Survivors; Violence and abuse Issues: Cross Cultural Perspectives for Health and Social Services; and numerous other publications. She has extensive experience as an educator, consultant, clinician, and crisis service manager. More...
Kazimiera Adamowksi, MSW, a highly experienced clinician, manager, trainer, and consultant, has developed original crisis protocols and programs for emergency medical and other health professionals and consults with community groups as well as provincial and federal government departments. She is author (with L. A. Hoff) of Creating Excellence in Crisis Care; Sudden Unexpected Death in the Emergency Department: Caring for the Survivors; and Social Work in the Emergency Department: An Invaluable Resource.
Miracle Hoff is a mental health and substance abuse professional. She holds a master's degree in Counseling and Guidance with an emphasis on Community Counseling. She is a licensed professional counselor and a licensed addiction counselor. Her clinical experience includes working with diverse clientele experiencing crisis situations resulting from mental health and substance abuse issues. She has worked in outpatient, residential, and correctional settings providing assessment, group, individual and family counseling services. Her clinical practice is grounded in a strength based and empowerment philosophy.
Bonnie Joyce Hallisey, MSW, LICSW, is a Social Worker and Teacher. She has continually done community mental health with people of diverse backgrounds and national origins in urban areas of Boston, in both public and private sectors. Bonnie also teaches Sociology and Psychology at Curry College in Milton, MA. Joining with Lee Ann and Miracle Hoff, in authoring the 6th edition of People in Crisis: Clinical and Diversity Perspectives, she also contributed to Violence and Abuse Issues: Cross-cultural Perspectives for Health and Social Services. (2009), Routledge.
We welcome collaboration in our programs according to interests and expertise in clinical practice, training, and/or research on crisis and related topics.
If you would like to discuss collaboration on a project, or seek further information on the Life Crisis Institute, please contact Lee Ann Hoff at LeeAnn.Hoff@gmail.com.