Describes a guidance project designed to help children develop skills to cope with crisis. Discusses understanding the crisis, being aware of changing thoughts and feelings, and using coping strategies and behaviors. (ABB)

Summarizes the findings of a study on battered women's children who accompany their mothers to protective shelters providing intervention and remedial services. Recommendations to improve such services for victims of family violence are offered. (BB)

Describes a system of action counseling for adolescents in crisis, focusing on counselor, peer, parent, and teacher roles. (BL)

Using key informant interviews and detailed crisis narratives, points to the importance of community and family supports in enhancing access to quality crisis services, and emphasizes the advantages of community/institution collaboration in the problem solving process. (Author/GC)

This article describes the Child Sexual Abuse Treatment Program (CSATP) in San Jose, California. Based on the theory and methods of Humanistic Psychology, the program provides counseling to sexually abused children and their families. (SB)

Several examples of crisis situations encountered at the middle/junior high level are reacted to by two different counselors from different parts of the country and different backgrounds. (Author)

Examines the problems and issues encountered when counselors endeavor to help those who have lost a loved one. (HMV)

The author discusses the characteristics and feelings of women undergoing abortion. She mentions the decisions which counselors must help such women face, the information they must be given, and the types of support they need. Increased counseling services are needed, she feels, for the markedly increased number of women seeking abortions. (EK)

Peer-designated crisis helpers are compared with non-peer-designated random helpers. Both helper groups were interviewed to discover what was done in crisis intervention. Peer-designated helpers intervene in more crises of a potentially serious nature and are more likely to take some direct action. (Author)

Experience with 73 cases has shown the value of Transient Structured Distance as a maneuver in marriage therapy. While the TSD is a radical form of intervention with risks of anxiety reactions, homosexual panic, or divorce, it has proved effective with difficult forms of acute or chronic marital disharmony. (Author)

The problem of suicides among college students is discussed, and recommendations for suicide prevention and possible measures for intervention are indicated. (BY)

Describes a series of workshops offering women an opportunity to explore the realities of divorce. Experienced volunteers provide information on coping with a new single identity, handling children, finances and legal aspects and growth through the mastery of crisis. A follow-up study confirmed the value of the program. (JAC)

Describes therapist-structured marital separation for distressed couples during their critical period of deciding whether to divorce or remain married. Discusses characteristics of marital distress appropriate for structured marital separation, potential benefits, and design of the separation contract. Issues addressed include duration, frequency…

Examined the social, psychological and temporal dimensions of "disturbance calls" and evaluated effects of crisis intervention training on 64 patrol officers. Found that trained officers tended to rate their handling of cases more positively, and citizens gave more favorable evaluations of the services provided by trained officers.…

Provides guidelines for parents to help children to deal with anxiety and stress resulting from major changes or new situations in the child's life. Advocates truth, repetition and pacing, proper timing, dialog, fostering familiarity, honest expression of feelings, mobilization of anxiety, encouraging play, and support as strategies for reducing…