Crisis Intervention Strategies - Hardcover

"No helping professional should be without the knowledge contained in this text. Get it. Use it. None of your students should get out of your program without having had a (crisis intervention) course of this kind, using this book as your core text. One of the strenghts of the text is its use of 'transcripts' to give students knowledge of the real world and how people really sound as the crisis situation develops."

This book teaches helping professionals the skills and procedures they need to handle crises. With the first edition of this comprehensive book, Burl Gilliland and Richard James created a model that gives students and practitioners a systematic way of dealing with people in crisis. Upon this model the authors then built specific strategies for handling a myriad of different crisis situations--in many cases right down to providing the dialogue that the nurse, minister, police officer, counselor, or other practitioner might have with the person in crisis.