Crisis : How to Help Yourself and Others in Distress or Danger

Crisis : How to Help Yourself and Others in Distress or Danger / Lee Ann Hoff.

Unlike books focusing on a single crisis topic, Crisis helps recognize common signs of endangerment across a range of life challenges by showing the interconnections between various harmful events. Through media coverage of school shootings, suicides, domestic abuse, workplace violence, and more, we...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hoff, Lee Ann (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2014]
©2014
Subjects:
Crisis management.
Crisis intervention (Mental health services)
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Crisis management
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Crisis; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Building on a Rich History; Part I People in Crisis: How Do They Feel, Think, and Act, and How Can We Help?; Chapter 1 Life Crises: How to Avoid Danger and Grasp Opportunity; Crisis is a common life experience, not a psychiatric "disorder"; Chapter 2 Recognizing Different Faces of Distress on the Road to Full-Blown Crisis; Knowing the difference between everyday upsetting events and life-or-death danger; Chapter 3 What to Do: How to Cope and Avoid Disastrous Crisis Outcomes.
  • When to seek professional help without shame or asking your friend to play "therapist"Part II Life-Threatening Crises: Suicide, Abuse, and Violence Toward Others; Chapter 4 A Cry for Help: Suicide and Other Self-Destructive Behaviors; What everyone needs to know about clues to suicide and that there is no such thing as absolute prediction; Chapter 5 Victimization by Violence, Sexual Assault, and Emotional Abuse; Healing from the crisis of victimization by violence or verbal abuse; Chapter 6 The Violent and Abusive Person: Preventing Violence Is Everybody's Business.
  • Violence and abuse: A major health and social issue worldwidePart III Crises Arising From Unexpected Stressful Events and Life Cycle Passages; Chapter 7 Threats to Health Status From a Serious Illness or Accident; Connecting the dots between serious medical events and emotional crisis; Chapter 8 Loss of Job, Home, and Financial Security; Coping with accidental and preventable loss of essentials in everyday life; Chapter 9 Life Cycle Changes, Loss and Growth: From Birth to Death; Navigating and growing through challenges across the life cycle.
  • Conclusion: Vision for Global Action: Research, Education, and PracticeLearning from history, together we can make a difference across several fronts; Index.

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