People in Crisis

Lee Ann Hoff

People in Crisis:
Clinical and Public Health Perspectives

Sixth Edition, 2009, $49.95
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This expanded edition of People in Crisis contains new and updated material on primary health care, victimology, policy, youth violence and aggression, battering, crime, environmental threats, homelessness, and immigrants. Moreover, the book offers essential knowledge for working with such diverse populations as people with AIDS, survivors of domestic violence, young suicide victims, and the homeless.

For clinical and social service settings, People in Crisis provides an indispensable resource to educate staff and prevent costly results - in both human and financial terms - of inadequate training in crisis intervention. This book provides essential reading for frontline crisis workers, nurses, social workers, physicians, clergy, therapists, counselors, human services supervisors - anyone who wants or needs to know more about working with people in crisis.

"In People in Crisis every crisis worker-regardless of discipline-will find a treasury of practical guidelines that are comprehensive, well organized, illustrated by appropriate examples, and thoroughly referenced. Lee Ann Hoff covers the spectrum of crisis experience -- individual, couples, group, and community -- never losing sight of the uniqueness of each clinical situation and its cultural context."
Jerome A. Motto, professor of psychiatry, emeritus, University
of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine

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Table of Contents

Part One: The Understanding and Practice of Crisis Intervention

Crisis Theory and Practice: Introduction and Overview
Understanding People in Crisis
Identifying People at Risk
Helping People in Crisis
Family and Social Network Strategies During Crisis

Part Two: Violence as Origin of and Response to Crisis

Suicide and other Self-destructive Behavior: Understanding and Assessment
Helping Self-destructive People and Survivors of Suicide
The Crisis of Victimization by Violence
The Violent Person: Individual and Sociocultural Factors
Violence and Crisis from Disaster

Part Three: Crisis Related to Situational and Transition States

Changes in Health Status and Self-Image
Changes in Occupational and Residential Security
Stress and Change During Life Passages