Crisis Intervention Handbook: Assessment, Treatment, and Research

As an Emergency Room Social Worker, this handbook has been invaluable, it offers comphrensive perspectives in everyday situations and how to handle these crisis. True life situations and hands on approaches to options that can be used with patients in crisis and some facing mortality. This handbook is one of my more invaluable tools for daily emergency room situations.

As a former crisis intervention worker I am impressed with the all-inclusive nature of this book which covers crisis intervention across multiple populations and practice settings with sensitivity to cultural diversity. As a current social work faculty member teaching crisis intervention course content, I am impressed that Dr. Robert's book is grounded in clinical research with contributing authors who are the experts in this field. A must read for all crisis workers and an outstanding book to incorporate into the classroom. Very impressive!

This vitally important and comprehensive handbook provides informed citizens, healthcare specialists, and mental health professionals with everything they need to know about crisis episodes and crisis interventions. This compelling, yet practical book is vitally needed and provides the most comprehensive information to date on everything from school violence, date rape, 24-hour mobile crisis units to hospital emergency room crises. This book is a rare gem for every graduate student and practitioner in the human services field.

Dr. Roberts' newest edition of the Crisis Intervention Handbook will be an exceptional resource for all mental healthe professionals. However, the first ten chapters which combine Roberts' seven step model of crisis intervention and solution focused brief therapy will be especially useful to school counselors. Counselors will refer to this book time and again when school and family crises occur. I highly recommend this book.

Dr. Al Roberts has edited an outstanding collection of writings that are cutting-edge and authored by the leading experts in crisis intervention. In this new second edition Dr. Roberts and his colleagues present the most current information on crisis intervention and apply it in diverse settings with suicidal adolescents, school violence problems, battered women, adult survivors of incest, HIV-Positive women, and culturally diverse clients. Authors weave relevant case examples that superbly illustrate how clinicians implement interventions that authors articulated and recommended for specific situations. No other text offers such complete coverage of the most critical issues facing society today. Clinicians involved in crisis intervention in social work, psychology or any other area involved with helping people in crisis will find this handbook a tremendous source on the most efficacious and latest developments in crisis intervention theory and practice.