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Creating excellence in crisis care : a guide to effective training and program designs / Lee Ann Hoff, Kazimiera Adamowski ; forewords by Richard Ramsay, Leona L. Eggert.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: San Francisco : Jossey-Bass Publishers, c1998.Edition: 1st edDescription: xviii, 272 p. ; ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0787940712 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 616.89025/ H698c 22
Contents:
Foreword / Richard Ramsay -- Foreword / Leona L. Eggert -- 1. The Significance and Urgency of Psychosocial and Crisis Care -- 2. Illustrations of Education, Training, and Comprehensive Service Needs in Psychosocial and Crisis Care -- 3. Essentials of Educational and Clinical Training Programs -- 4. Implementing Core Crisis Content -- 5. Differential Application of Core Crisis Content -- 6. Service Program Planning and Development -- 7. Essential Program Elements and Organizational Structure -- 8. Program Management and Evaluation -- 9. Crisis Consultation and Community Education.
Summary: Drawing on the best practices from the United States and Canada, the book is filled with vivid examples that clearly demonstrate how a holistic, interdisciplinary, and collaborative approach is the most practical response to the challenges of working with people in crisis.Summary: This comprehensive text offers a field-tested framework and systematic method for including crisis content - critical life events, violence, victimization, suicide, and psychiatric emergencies - in the formal training of health and other human services professionals.
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Book Book Daffodil International University Library General Stacks Non-fiction 616.89025/ H673c (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 000230
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-233) and index

Foreword / Richard Ramsay -- Foreword / Leona L. Eggert -- 1. The Significance and Urgency of Psychosocial and Crisis Care -- 2. Illustrations of Education, Training, and Comprehensive Service Needs in Psychosocial and Crisis Care -- 3. Essentials of Educational and Clinical Training Programs -- 4. Implementing Core Crisis Content -- 5. Differential Application of Core Crisis Content -- 6. Service Program Planning and Development -- 7. Essential Program Elements and Organizational Structure -- 8. Program Management and Evaluation -- 9. Crisis Consultation and Community Education.

Drawing on the best practices from the United States and Canada, the book is filled with vivid examples that clearly demonstrate how a holistic, interdisciplinary, and collaborative approach is the most practical response to the challenges of working with people in crisis.

This comprehensive text offers a field-tested framework and systematic method for including crisis content - critical life events, violence, victimization, suicide, and psychiatric emergencies - in the formal training of health and other human services professionals.

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