People in crisis [electronic resource] : clinical and public health perspectives / Lee Ann Hoff.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Understanding and Practice of Crisis Intervention -- Crisis Theory and Practice: Introduction and Overview -- What Is Crisis and Crisis Intervention? -- Views and Myths About People in Crisis and How to Help Them -- The Evolution of Crisis Theory and Intervention Contexts -- Freud and Psychoanalytic Theory -- Ego Psychology -- Military Psychiatry -- Preventive Psychiatry and Public Health -- Community Mental Health -- Primary Health Care -- Crisis Care and Psychiatric Stabilization -- Crisis Care and Chronic Problems -- Suicide Prevention and Other Specialized Crisis Services -- Sociological Influences -- Cross-Cultural and Diversity Influences -- Feminist and Victimology Influences -- Life Crises: A Psychosociocultural Perspective -- Crisis Care: Intersection with Other Therapeutic Models -- Differentiating Approaches to Helping People in Distress -- Preventing Crisis and Promoting Emotional Growth -- Crisis Services in a Continuum Perspective -- Basic Steps in Crisis Care -- Standards for Crisis Services -- Understanding People in Crisis -- The Origins of Crisis -- Situational Origins -- Transition State Origins -- Cultural and Social-Structural Origins -- Interrelationships Between Crisis Origins and Development -- Stress, Crisis, and Illness -- The Crisis-Psychiatric Illness Interface -- Development and Individual Manifestations of Crisis -- Why People Go into Crisis -- How a Crisis Develops -- The Duration and Outcomes of Crisis -- The Sociocultural Context of Personal Crisis.

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