10052: Crisis Intervention Strategies

About the Course:

The authors six-step model of crisis intervention outline an applied, problem-solving approach to handling crisis situations. The text also presents the quick triage assessment techniques used for assessing the severity of client crisis. Case transcripts of dialogues are sprinkled throughout the book to help illustrate the techniques described. The type of crisis situations examined run the gamut from suicide, wife battering, and addiction, to violent behavior, burnout, and hostage crises. Case studies describe how to do specific intervention techniques and why they are used.

Publication Date:

Fourth Edition

Author

Gilliland, Burl E., Ph.D. & James, Richard, Ph.D.

About the Authors:

Dr. Burl E. Gilliland, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of Counseling, Educational Psychology and Research, The University of Memphis (Retired and now living in Pensacola, FL).

Dr. Richard K. James, Crader Distinguished Professor of Education and Counseling, Department of Counseling, Educational Psychology and Research, The University of Memphis, Memphis, TN.

Both professors are authors and coauthors of several books, journal articles, and many scholarly presentations at national conferences. Their latest book is Theories and Strategies in Counseling and Psychotherapy, (4th Edition), 1998, Allyn & Bacon. They have facilitated hundreds of workshops in the areas of crisis intervention, psychotherapy, counseling, and related areas.

Recommended For:

This course is recommended for health care professionals, especially psychologists, counselors, social workers, and nurses who are faced with handling crisis situations. It is appropriate for an intermediate to advanced level of participants’ knowledge.

Course Objectives:

1. Explain what a crisis worker should know about suicide risk

2. Explain what a crisis worker should know about addiction

3. Describe basic skills needed to handle crisis situations

4. Discuss Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

5. List the six steps of the crisis intervention model

6. Explain what a crisis worker should know about sexual abuse

7. Discuss what needs to be understood about crisis situations

8. Explain what a crisis worker should know about partner violence

9. Explain what a crisis worker should know about loss and grief

10. Explain what a crisis worker should know about violent behavior in institutions

11. Explain what a crisis worker should know about crisis’s in school settings

12. Explain what a crisis worker should know about a hostage crisis

13. Explain what a crisis worker should know about human ser vice workers involved in “burnout”