Reviews two books: (1) "LEAD!" (Richard Lynch), which outlines leadership principles for nonprofit and public agency managers; and (2) "Troubled Transplants: Unconventional Strategies for Helping Disturbed Foster and Adopted Children" (Richard J. Delaney and Frank R. Kunstal), which offers practical suggestions for intervention by parents and…

Presents some guidelines for art activities that teachers can use to help their students work through their feelings following a natural disaster. Includes some personal observations of art expressions created after a tornado struck. Explains how art produced by students in response to catastrophe seemed to fall into three major categories:…

Subpopulations of elderly adults at highest risk for suicide are identified, and several specific programs are described, along with a range of measures to prevent suicide in late life. These measures include primary prevention steps related to education, and secondary prevention involving early identification and assessment of the depressed and…

Sport-specific preparticipation examinations do not address social problems (drug abuse, suicide, murder, accidents, and sex) epidemic among teenagers, but they are often the only contact these youth have with a physician. This article discusses these risk factors and presents methods for assessing them during preparticipation exams. (SM)

Discusses various concepts of crisis intervention theory as applied to the treatment of rural victims of child sexual abuse and their families. Describes a working example of a rural child sexual abuse crisis group, including the initial stages of group development, the cohesive/working stage, and the termination stage. (LP)

Notes that student services professionals manage a number of mental health crises as part of their job responsibilities. Examines some issues that arise from assisting foreign college students experiencing such crises, with special focus on psychiatric committal, withdrawal from school, and return to the home country. (Author)

Discusses how teachers can help children who are struggling with loss. Suggestions include creating links with families, making time to talk, enforcing loving limits, keeping administrators informed, creating a sense of community within the class, assigning the children new roles, and teaching the children about therapeutic reading, writing, and…

The story of one young man's successful return to his neighborhood high school provides the nuts and bolts of how to use a paraeducator to ensure smooth and cost-effective transitions for youth moving from restrictive environments back to public schools. Discusses the paraeducator's role, training, crisis planning, initial successes, and reducing…

An updated model for Classroom Crisis Intervention (CCI) including post-CCI activities is presented. CCI may be applied following various types of traumatic incident involvement and for the management of grief reactions. By promoting the idea that trauma responses are normal, CCI helps survivors regain optimism. (EMK)

A Presbyterian minister collaborated with religious organizations, parents, teachers, businesses, and community members to organize a special camp program for students from an Arkansas middle school where two boys killed four students and a teacher. The one-week program included therapeutic and sensitization activities to help the students heal…

Two brief suicide prevention protocols, Counselors CARE (C-Care) and C-Care plus a 12-session Coping and Support Training (CAST) peer group intervention, were evaluated for immediate post intervention effects. The predicted patterns of change were assessed using trend analyses on data available from three repeated measures. Both groups experienced…

Participants from five groups completed a questionnaire that required them to assess their use of 11 coping mechanisms. Participants differed from one another, depending on group affiliation, on five strategies. The strategy judged most important was "maintaining contact with other helpers." Concludes that training programs should…

Participants (n=161) viewed a videotaped "disaster" during which they "placed" themselves on the scene as helpers. Results indicate that two groups, those who had received previous training in coping skills versus those who had not, differed significantly in the use of skills and level of psychological comfort. (Author)

Explains how local PTAs can help with school crisis intervention, focusing on dealing with the public and the media; spreading the word about the National PTA's programs and positions via public relations programs; what to do during a crisis; and how to prepare for press conferences and prepare necessary materials. Finally, the paper discusses the…

Examined the nature and scope of victimization as experienced by individuals with mental illness; and what demographic and clinical characteristics played in influencing the risk among this group. Results indicate social workers should assess for experiences of victimization and better understand the effect of such experiences on individual's…