Describes a crisis-based therapeutic approach for overcoming resistance in reconstituted families. Presents therapeutically induced crisis as a means through which therapists might purposefully disequilibrate families in which resistance is high and subsequently redirect them to meaningful change. Reviews implications and contraindications for the…

This article is a written version of a workshop on crisis intervention and non-violent restraint. It is geared towards staff responding to crisis calls, and the supervision of crisis intervention in public schools. Reaction to death threats, bomb scares, and weapons are discussed. The NOVA and NEAT principles are briefly integrated into this…

This article points out some situations in which counselors are likely to encounter the topic of death as a client concern (in counseling young children and adolescents, in rehabilitation settings, drug crisis clinics, runaway houses, etc.). An initial framework for providing therapeutic services to such clients is outlined. (Author/EAK)

This article describes one approach to providing helping services for individuals with drug related problems. The development of the organization, services offered, and community outreach programs are discussed, as well as the training, supervision, and consultation provided by trained professionals to laymen which enables the agency to function…

The authors attempt to establish what a project is in the vocabulary of the monograph under consideration. An example of a project, the Crisis Center, serves to define the terms community project and community participation. (Author)

Studied persons who had accidentally killed another person to explore factors that had helped these individuals cope with the ensuing stress. Ten case study summaries are presented. Results reinforce the important role family members, friends, and the community play in helping traumatized persons manage stress. (Author)

Describes a hospital-based program for providing consultation to persons who provide direct services in child abuse/neglect cases. Conceptual issues in multidisciplinary team formation and involvement are discussed. Some topics mentioned are types of service, follow-up, educational components, and long-term involvement with families. (DB)

Staff of the Sexual Abuse Treatment Program of the Baltimore City Department of Social Services concluded that the objective of family reconstitution was not appropriate to the entire client population being served. Family characteristics are reported that present obstacles to the goal of reunification of sexually abusive families. (Author/RH)

This survey of suicide prevention and crisis services around the world provides evidence of a trend toward a broadening range of services, a more active case-finding approach, greater visibility, increased integration into the community care system, and creative leadership by newer and smaller centers as well as the well-established ones. (Author)

Examines the pathogenic perspective on divorce, pointing out its methodological and conceptual shortcomings. A conceptual model of the divorce experience based upon crisis theory is presented. Provides a framework for understanding short- and long-term reactions to divorce. (Author)

Relative to controls, crisis workers have consistently higher apprehension about their own mortality. Significance for selection and training of suicide counselors is noted. (Author)

This paper presents a model which integrates a wide range of possible interventions using family treatment, and provides a method of differential decision making with regard to the intervention to be used in a given case. This model uses an ecological perspective. (Author)

Chronic callers (N=67) are reviewed; 51 percent were diagnosed as drug or alcohol dependent. Four were known to have committed suicide and 37 had made suicide attempts; 47 percent of the group was eventually referred to an ongoing treatment resource. Agency strategies for dealing with the chronic caller are discussed. (Author)

Argues that the family crisis that ineviably follows the adoptive placement of an older child can be surmounted if the social worker applies techniques based on crisis theory and family systems theory. (MS)