TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hoff,Lee Ann
TI  - Crisis: How to Help Yourself and Others in Distress or Danger 
SN  - 9780199364176
AV  - HD49 .H629 2014eb
U1  - 363.34 23
PY  - 2014///
KW  - Crisis management
KW  - Crisis intervention (Mental health services)
KW  - Gestion de crise
KW  - Intervention en situation de crise (Psychiatrie)
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
KW  - Infrastructure
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - General
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index; Cover; Crisis; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Building on a Rich History; Part I People in Crisis: How Do They Feel, Think, and Act, and How Can We Help?; Chapter 1 Life Crises: How to Avoid Danger and Grasp Opportunity; Crisis is a common life experience, not a psychiatric "disorder"; Chapter 2 Recognizing Different Faces of Distress on the Road to Full-Blown Crisis; Knowing the difference between everyday upsetting events and life-or-death danger; Chapter 3 What to Do: How to Cope and Avoid Disastrous Crisis Outcomes; When to seek professional help without shame or asking your friend to play "therapist"Part II Life-Threatening Crises: Suicide, Abuse, and Violence Toward Others; Chapter 4 A Cry for Help: Suicide and Other Self-Destructive Behaviors; What everyone needs to know about clues to suicide and that there is no such thing as absolute prediction; Chapter 5 Victimization by Violence, Sexual Assault, and Emotional Abuse; Healing from the crisis of victimization by violence or verbal abuse; Chapter 6 The Violent and Abusive Person: Preventing Violence Is Everybody's Business; Violence and abuse: A major health and social issue worldwidePart III Crises Arising From Unexpected Stressful Events and Life Cycle Passages; Chapter 7 Threats to Health Status From a Serious Illness or Accident; Connecting the dots between serious medical events and emotional crisis; Chapter 8 Loss of Job, Home, and Financial Security; Coping with accidental and preventable loss of essentials in everyday life; Chapter 9 Life Cycle Changes, Loss and Growth: From Birth to Death; Navigating and growing through challenges across the life cycle; Conclusion: Vision for Global Action: Research, Education, and PracticeLearning from history, together we can make a difference across several fronts; Index
N2  - Unlike books focusing on a single crisis topic, Crisis helps recognize common signs of endangerment across a range of life challenges by showing the interconnections between various harmful events. Through media coverage of school shootings, suicides, domestic abuse, workplace violence, and more, we've become accustomed to hearing about violence and trauma-almost invariably followed by reports that show all of the warning signs that were missed. While it is impossible to predict when, where, and with whom a crisis will occur, we do have the means to be better equipped to intervene in stressful
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