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Category: Book
Author: Richard K. James
Publisher: Brooks Cole
Studio: Brooks Cole
Manufacturer: Brooks Cole
Label: Brooks Cole
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 6
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 672
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.5
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 7.6 x 1.2
ISBN: 0495100269
Dewey Decimal Number: 62.204251
EAN: 9780495100263
ASIN: 0495100269
Publication Date: July 27, 2007
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Product Description
Best-selling author Richard K. James presents the latest skills and techniques for handling real crisis situations. Authoritative and based on the author's extensive experience teaching crisis intervention courses, the new edition presents a six-step model for dealing with people in crisis: Defining the Problem, Ensuring Client Safety, Providing Support, Examining Alternatives, Making Plans, and Obtaining Commitment. Using this model, the author then builds specific strategies for handling a myriad of different crisis situations - in many cases providing the dialogue that you might use as a nurse, minister, police officer, counselor, or other practitioner. At the end of this course, you will have developed skills and strategies that you can take out of the classroom and onto the street.
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For the individual with no crisis planning and services experience. July 6, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
As required for licensure, I used this text for the mandated Crisis Intervention post-master's course. In addition to basic mental health crisis intervention, the book primarily focuses on crisis response, crisis planning, and other concepts introduced to the general public by FEMA and HRSA after the events of 9/11.
I suppose if you are not familiar with the planning component, and do not want to take the time to search through the free FEMA and Red Cross files on the net, you'll have a brief, one-stop shopping experience with this text. And, I also suppose this is "stuff" one should probably know for administrator level position within human service organizations. However, be warned...this is great theory that academics want you to know. But in the real world, the plan in written and put on a shelf.
 Becoming a bit stale... November 16, 2007
The material is becoming a bit dated now with the continued inclusion of psychoanalytic theory, the Chinese "danger" and "opportunity" symbols refuted by language scholars, and too many offensive terms. For example, on page 5 decribes veterans suffering from PTSD as those who have "turnstiled through VA hospitals," and page 280 on substance abuse includes an example of a "passerby who gives a street bum a handout," so that "the bum is enable to buy the wine." Some fresh talent is needed to revive this book.
Good Information October 7, 2007
I work as a Crisis Intervention Specialist for a hospital, so I thought that this information would be useful, as I was taking a graduate level class in Crisis Intervention. I think that this is a good book for someone that is just starting out, but for a seasoned veteran, I thought that it wsn't that helpful.
Not Bad. . . June 1, 2007
The authors definitely know their material, but I agree with the review by, "a reader," in relation to how much swearing they put in with dialogues. I also thought that the dialogues were contrived with no attempt at making them seem realistic. I got the impression that the writer may not have been a therapist and was playing make-believe, "If I was at the top of my field in psychology and having suicidal thoughts, this is what I would say and this is how I would respond to someone like that." I just don't see some of the people being as straight-foreward with a therapist or colleague as they conveyed and even in the study groups we'd read some of this out loud and yell, "IN MY DREAMS!"
James and Gilliand are not the James brothers by any stretch of the imagination. (I am referring to the James brothers-- one was a psychologist who wrote like a writer and the other was a writer who wrote like a psychologist.)
The book was adequate for what my prof used it for: it was a springboard for discussion in class and prepared us to go further in our education to becoming crises intervention specialists.
Skip the profanity October 13, 2003
11 out of 24 found this review helpful
A fairly good text, it probably covers the field better than other available sources. However, the selection of illustrations seem to be chosen based on how much profanity they can include. I realize that crisis situations involve people who don't monitor their usage, but why include every F--- and other curse word when they aren't needed to convey the meaning. I teach large classes and probably won't adopt this title because of the gratuitous inclusion of verbal static.
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