Crisis Intervention Handbook: Assessment, Treatment, and Research

841 Pages·2015·5.52 MB·English

by  Kenneth Yeager

CRISIS INTERVENTION HANDBOOK
Fourth Edition

CRISIS INTERVENTION HANDBOOK
Assessment, Treatment, and Research
FOURTH EDITION
Edited by
Kenneth R. Yeager
Founding Editor
Albert R. Roberts
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Crisis intervention handbook: assessment, treatment and research / edited by

Kenneth R. Yeager, PhD. and Albert R. Roberts — Fourth edition.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978–0–19–020105–0 (alk. paper)
1. Crisis intervention (Mental health services)—Handbooks, manuals, etc. 2. Community
mental health services—Handbooks, manuals, etc. I. Yeager, Kenneth, editor.
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Contents
Foreword ix
Grayce M. Sills
Acknowledgments xiii
Contributors xv
Introduction xix
Part I: Overview
1 Bridging the Past and Present to the Future of Crisis Intervention
and Crisis Management 3
Kenneth R. Yeager and Albert R. Roberts
2 Lethality Assessment and Crisis Intervention With Persons
Presenting With Suicidal Ideation 36
Kenneth R. Yeager and Albert R. Roberts
3 How to Work With Clients’ Strengths in Crisis Intervention: 
A Solution-Focused Approach 69
Gilbert J. Greene and Mo-Yee Lee
4 Differentiating Among Stress, Acute Stress Disorder, Acute Crisis
Episodes, Trauma, and PTSD: Paradigm and Treatment Goals 99
Kenneth R. Yeager and Albert R. Roberts
vi Contents
5 Crisis Intervention for Persons Diagnosed With Clinical
Disorders Based on the Stress-Crisis Continuum 128
Kenneth R. Yeager, Ann Wolbert Burgess, and Albert R. Roberts
6 Suicide Crisis Intervention 151
Darcy Haag Granello
Part II: Crisis Intervention: Disaster and Trauma
7 The ACT Model: Assessment, Crisis Intervention, and Trauma
Treatment in the Aftermath of Community Disasters 183
Kenneth R. Yeager and Albert R. Roberts
8 Crisis Intervention and First Responders to Events Involving
Terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction 214
Vincent E. Henry
9 An Examination of the US Response to Bioterrorism: Handling
the Threat and Aftermath Through Crisis Intervention 248
Sophia F. Dziegielewski and Joshua Kirven
10 Crisis Intervention Teams: Police-Based First Response for
Individuals in Mental Health Crisis 273
David P. Kasick and Christopher D. Bowling
Part III: Crisis Intervention with Children, Adolescents, and
Young Adults
11 Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Emergencies: Mobile Crisis
Response 299
Jonathan B. Singer
12 Crisis Intervention With Early Adolescents Who Have Suffered
a Significant Loss 348
Mary Sean O’Halloran, Janae R. Sones, and Laura K. Jones
13 Crisis Intervention at College Counseling Centers 387
Allen J. Ottens and Debra A. Pender
14 School Crisis Intervention, Crisis Prevention, and Crisis Response 406
Scott Newgass and David J. Schonfeld
Contents vii
15 Crisis Intervention With Chronic School Violence and Volatile
Situations 429
Laura M. Hopson, Gordon MacNeil, and Chris Stewart
Part IV: Vulnerable Populations
16 A Comprehensive Model for Crisis Intervention With Battered
Women and Their Children 459
Kenneth R. Yeager, Albert R. Roberts, and
Beverly Schenkman Roberts
17 Crisis Intervention With Stalking Victims 502
Karen S. Knox and Albert R. Roberts
18 Crisis Intervention Application of Brief Solution-Focused
Therapy in Addictions 523
Kenneth R. Yeager and Thomas K. Gregoire
19 Mobile Crisis Units: Front-Line Community Mental
Health Services 561
Jan Ligon
20 Crisis Intervention With HIV-Positive Women 578
Sarah J. Lewis
21 Animal-Assisted Crisis Response 599
Yvonne Eaton-Stull and Brian Flynn
Part V: Crisis Intervention in Healthcare Settings
22 Trauma Support Services for Healthcare Workers: The Stress,
Trauma and Resilience (STAR) Program 609
Kenneth R. Yeager
23 Crisis Intervention With Caregivers 634
Allen J. Ottens and Donna Kirkpatrick Pinson
24 A Model of Crisis Intervention in Critical and Intensive Care
Units of General Hospitals 658
Norman M. Shulman
viii Contents
Part VI: Best Practice Outcomes
25 Models for Effective Crisis Intervention 681
Yvonne Eaton-Stull and Michelle Miller
26 The Crisis State Assessment Scale: Development and
Psychometrics 693
Sarah J. Lewis
27 Designs and Procedures for Evaluating Crisis Intervention 711
Sophia F. Dziegielewski and George A. Jacinto
Glossary 751
Directory of Suicide Prevention and Crisis Intervention Internet
Resources and 24-Hour Hotlines 769
Index 781
Foreword
GRAYCE M. SILLS
This book belongs on the desk, and in the library, of every health profes-
sional regardless of discipline, background, experience, or training. By their
very nature, human service professionals come in contact on a daily basis
with more crisis than can be imagined. This book provides an authorita-
tive, conceptually integrated paradigm for intervening in crisis situations.
In this 21st century, with upheavals on the planet ranging from acts of war,
to terrorism, to increasing numbers and kinds of natural disasters, all of us
have in effect been put on permanent crisis alert. The conceptual model pro-
vided in this book, which presents Albert Roberts’s approach combined with
Kenneth Yeager’s revisions, is the basis for what should be in every health
professional’s toolkit. Why is this not already so, and why is it a challenge
for us to have a cadre of completely competent crisis intervention health
service professionals available 24/7 in every community in America? In part
this is so because American society in particular and, increasingly, modern
societies worldwide like to see immediate results and instant satisfaction
from nearly all activity.
We tend to learn the lessons of history but then forget them very quickly.
Let us look back for a moment to World War II, when early on in the North
African campaign we learned through a seminal paper by Roy Grinker
and John Spiegel (1945) about the efficacy of an immediate intervention
in response to a soldier’s crisis in the trenches. This paper markedly influ-
enced the treatment of World War II veterans at battlefield medic stations,
where with short-term crisis intervention, essentially a replaying of the
events that led to the crisis under conditions of significant social support,
produced soldiers who were ready to return to the battlefield and not did not
require treatment at the more remote military hospitals. These experiences
led the foremost psychiatrists of the day to become politically active after
they returned from the war. They advocated and were successful in getting
Congress to pass the National Mental Health Act of 1946, which established
community mental health centers that were to provide around-the-clock