Two important questions arise when creating a school crisis plan: (a) Who should be trained as part of the crisis team? and (b) What type of training will be the most effective and practical? The authors suggest that paraprofessionals are a valuable resource to consider for assisting with crisis prevention and intervention. Practical suggestions…

Crisis intervention is a role that fits exceedingly well with counseling psychologists' interests and skills. This article provides an overview of a new crisis intervention model, the Integrated Problem-Solving Model (IPSM), and demonstrates its application to a specific crisis, sexual assault. It is hoped that this article will encourage…

This study furthers the discussion of teachers as public servants who are essential to the maintenance of the democratic state. The study demonstrates how teachers' actions on September 11, 2001 in New York City show the essential qualities of public service, including selflessness and placing the needs of others above their own needs. By focusing…

Family therapists need to develop therapeutic strategies which can be effective in helping members of dysfunctional and crisis-oriented families reconnect with additional sources of support and strength. The extended family and social system can serve as this source of support when it is convened, mobilized, and reactivated. (Author)

Helping strategies are more effective if the counselor understands grief and its relationship to loss. This article stresses the grief impact of involuntary career loss, the nature of possible grief reactions, and the role of the counselor in assisting those who are experiencing grief as the result of career loss. (Author)

Describes Dutchess County Department of Mental Hygiene and New York State Bridge Authority's joint establishment of a suicide prevention telephone on Mid-Hudson Bridge. Telephone, which is directly connected to psychiatric emergency service, was used 30 times in two-year period. Data suggest that most would-be jumpers were ambivalent about dying…

A new approach to early detection and intervention for the prevention of youth suicide is presented. The approach integrates a proposed model of risk factors with a multithreshold level of early detection. Psychiatric diagnosis, personality traits, psychosocial factors, life events and chronic medical illness, biological factors, and family…

Describes a consultation model of crisis intervention, developed in cooperation with the counselor, principal, and teachers, to respond to the murder of a child. The counselor met with students, teachers, and parents and helped the victim's classmates develop a memorial service in school. (JAC)

Refutes certain myths about adolescent suicide and discusses the characteristics and symptoms of suicidal behavior. Offers considerations for counseling the suicidal teenager. Lists counselors' responsibilities which include being informed on the subject, arranging workshops to educate others, and offering immediate support and evaluation of the…

The suicide of a competent and popular teacher required rapid but careful response by administrators at a midwestern high school. This article explains how faculty members and students were informed and how crisis specialists were brought in to help respond to strong student reactions. (PGD)

Monitored long- and short-term effects of crisis-intervention counseling with hospitalized patients. When compared to a control group, counseled patients on discharge from the hospital showed reductions in anxiety and in indirectly expressed anger. Results supported the use of crisis-intervention counseling to achieve immediate goals, and for…

In 1992 the Professional Development Committee for the California Association for Counseling and Development (CACD) launched a Crisis Intervention Project. This guidebook is the outcome of that project, and it demonstrates the committee's efforts to provide support for and assist counselors and other helping professionals deal with crisis. The…

Purpose of this paper is to present a set of guidelines, recommendations, and procedures suitable for implementation by university mental health workers in response to campus panic reactions. (Authors/CB)

This article describes the crisis intervention techniques used by the San Fernanco Valley Child Guidance Clinic to help families deal with the traumatic events experienced in the 1971 earthquake in California. (Author)