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Synopsis
People in Crisis : Understanding and Helping, Second Edition- 1984 This book is about people in crisis and those who help them. It gives a comprehensive during their periods of crisis, and what strategies and resources can be used to help them. Winner of the American Journal or Nursing Book of the Year award in its first edition (1979).
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"This is the definitive book on crisis intervention for health care professionals. Its holistic approach encompasses both theoretical and policy perspectives highlighted with individual cases to accentuate clinical application."
—Joyce Pulcini, associate professor, Maternal Child Health Department, School of Nursing, Boston College
"This latest edition of Lee Ann Hoff's text provides a broad and thought provoking framework from which practitioners can reflect upon their work and develop interdisciplinary services that are creative and flexible in meeting the needs of survivors. People in Crisis makes an essential contribution to this field."
—Philippa Sully, course leader, Society, Violence, and Practice, City University, London, UK
"In People in Crisis every crisis worker-regardless of discipline-will find a treasury of practical guidelines that are comprehensive, well organized, illustrated by appropriate examples, and thoroughly referenced. Lee Ann Hoff covers the spectrum of crisis experience-individual, couples, group, and community, never losing sight of the uniqueness of each clinical situation and its cultural context."
—Jerome A. Motto, professor of psychiatry, emeritus, University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine
"This book has it all. Grounded in theory and framed within a broad cultural context aimed at contemporary interdisciplinary practice, People in Crisis offers invaluable guidelines for assessment and response. Should you find yourself faced with persons in crisis, you can wrap this wondrously woven tapestry around you for comfort during the caring process."
—Lisa Love, APRN, CS, Spring Harbor Counseling, Portland, Maine
"Drawing from public health, social, cultural, and political perspectives and 'thinking upstream,' Lee Ann Hoff considers the roots of crisis and identifies key issues facing frontline workers. Case studies and sample interviews make the material come alive and be meaningful. She makes a strong case for the role of primary care workers in identifying and responding to distressed people in hospitals, clinics, and schools where they first seek help."
—Eleanor Harder, program manager, Community Mental Health Clinic, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
The Author
Lee Ann Hoff is the founding director of the Life Crisis Institute, an international not-for-profit organization based in Boston and Ottawa and is professor at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, College of Health Professions and Adjunct Professor at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Health Sciences. Contact Lee Ann Hoff at www.crisisprograms.com
From the Back Cover
The new, expanded edition of People in Crisis contains updated material on primary health care, victimology, policy, youth violence and aggression, battering, environmental threats, homelessness, and immigration. This fourth edition offers essential knowledge for working with such diverse populations as people with AIDS, survivors of domestic violence, young suicide victims, and the homeless.
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- PublisherAddison-Wesley Publishing Company Medical/Nur
- Publication date1984
- ISBN 10 020111075X
- ISBN 13 9780201110753
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number2
- Number of pages394
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