Table of Contents:
  • Introductory aspects of crisis intervention and trauma counseling
  • The social psychology of trauma : what clinicians need to know
  • A step-wise plan for intervention
  • Post traumatic stress : the need for a multidimensional approach
  • Long-term sequela of trauma
  • Patient suicide : clinical assessment and management
  • Violence: what is this person going to do?
  • Helping therapists cope : patient suicide and burnout
  • Death and dying, partner abuse, and other subtypes of trauma
  • Violence in social settings : the workplace, school, and community
  • Underserved patient populations : children, adolescents, older adults, and minority group members
  • The future of crisis intervention.