Crisis Intervention Verbatim

Crisis Intervention Verbatim
Author: Nira Kfir
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2014-09-03
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 131777051X

First published in 1989. This volume intended primarily for professional people such as physicians, attorneys, ministers, psychologists, social workers, psychiatrists, and counsellors of all types, is certainly helpful even for people in crisis. Crises often result in suicide or other devastating consequences. A person in a crisis is in this state exactly because he or she does not know how to cope. Crisis Intervention Verbatim, with its two part approach of theory and practice (through case histories), is valuable text which can be of considerable help to professional people dealing with crisis situations through giving them an understanding of the basic mechanisms of crises and an appreciation of effective ways of handling such problems.

Tackling Mental Health Crises

Tackling Mental Health Crises
Author: David Kingdon
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2012-09-10
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1135443815

Tackling Mental Health Crises provides a practical guide to combining social and psychological responses to mental health problems. David Kingdon and Marie Finn look at what constitutes a crisis, be it an individual crisis presentation or a situational crisis for services. They reject current diagnostic approaches to mental health, focussing instead on a symptom-led approach and keeping an awareness of the intervention experience for clients and carers throughout. Subjects covered include: engaging and assessing the client risk assessment and management emotional, behavioural, cognitive and physical presentations service teams and settings. The emphasis throughout is on taking a holistic look at crisis prevention and management, encompassing both the work that takes place at an individual level and the wider impact of societal and political issues. Containing clear direction and practical advice, combined with numerous case studies and commentary from users and carers themselves, this book will be of great use to anyone involved with dealing with mental health crises.

Global Climate Education and Its Discontents

Global Climate Education and Its Discontents
Author: Kathleen Gallagher
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2024-10-31
Genre: Art
ISBN: 104016434X

This innovative and practical book offers pedagogical tools to show how drama can be used in educational settings to advance a relational, action-oriented, interdisciplinary, and creative climate education attuned to the social and emotional effects of the climate emergency. Based on a six-year ethnographic research study taking place with teachers, artists, community leaders, and young people globally, and taking its lead from the following provocation – can performance become a site for new imaginaries for socio-ecological justice? – the book explores the unique conceptual and pedagogical ‘discontents’ of climate education across geographically and culturally distinct sites of learning. It also examines how artful engagement through drama pedagogies can open up more collective, critical, and hopeful forms of thinking and being. The book is divided into two sections. The first part of the book, Local engagements and encounters, consists of chapters that conduct an in-depth appraisal of the local artistic work from each site, examining how matters of socio-ecological justice are given fresh urgency and complexity through the application of performance as pedagogy. The second part of the book, Pedagogical and artistic innovations, offers substantive praxis chapters on the drama-based pedagogical methods employed in the research. In these chapters, the world-building capacities of theatre-making offer up new, performative pedagogical orientations to the climate emergency beyond those of critique. Global Climate Education and Its Discontents: Using Drama to Forge a New Way is valuable reading for scholars interested in the ontological and epistemological dimensions of the climate emergency, especially within and across the following fields: drama, theatre and performance studies, applied theatre and drama education, educational research, and children/childhood and youth studies. The book also invites a readership of teachers and teacher-educators who are interested in applying drama pedagogies in the classroom to explore matters of socio-ecological justice and the climate crisis.

Personality & Priorities

Personality & Priorities
Author: Nira Kfir
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 119
Release: 2011-09-20
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1456795376

In Personality & Priorities, "Impasses" are roadblocks that evolve in early childhood and impede or limit the child's social development and movement in life. Impasses develop out of a coalescence of unpleasant or painful interpersonal experiences in early life that signify non significance and non belonging to the child. The four priorities are present in everyone's behavioral repertoire in varying degrees. However, one of the priorities is pre-eminent, and the others are subordinated to it. They help therapists understand clients quickly, and allow them to aid clients in reaching self-understanding and self-acceptance and in recognizing the price they pay for their chosen priority and behavioral strategies. Dr. Nira Kfir, PhD is a psychotherapist and Director of Maagalim Institute for Psychotherapy and Counseling in Tel Aviv, Israel. Her theory of personality and priorities has developed into an innovative psychotherapeutic diagnostic system Personality Impasse/Priority Therapy, which is used internationally. Her theoretical model of Crisis Intervention is presented in her book, Crisis Intervention Verbatim.

The Trauma of Terrorism

The Trauma of Terrorism
Author: Yael Danieli
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 934
Release: 2005
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780789027733

A compendium of the latest information on terrorism & its impact on individuals, families, communities, & nations. Issues explored include the need for cultural sensitivity when observing the damaging impact of terrorism & subsequent development of intervention programmes.

Parish Nurses, Health Care Chaplains, and Community Clergy

Parish Nurses, Health Care Chaplains, and Community Clergy
Author: Larry Van De Creek
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2012-11-12
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1136401474

Understand the roles of these three unique professions and how collaboration can make each more effective!This is the first book to clarify the roles and interprofessional dynamics of these three professions and describe how they can best work together. Here you’ll find theological perspectives on each profession, practice models of collaborative programs, and new resources to aid your professional growth. In addition, this book gives you a thorough historical overview of parish nursing and an introduction to health care chaplaincy as well as insightful analyses of the relationships of clergy and congregation to health care institutions.Parish Nurses, Health Care Chaplains, and Community Clergy: Navigating the Maze of Professional Relationships is a vital addition to your reference shelf. This unique book, written by experts in all three fields, provides: the necessary background to be an effective parish nurse, including information on spiritual formation, clinical pastoral education, and more instruction on starting a parish health ministry effective ways that the disciplines can work together in congregational health ministries to provide the best possible spiritual care successful practice models that your ministry can emulate an examination of the health care institution’s role in forming the spiritual care team resources to use to increase your ministry’s effectivenessParish Nurses, Health Care Chaplains, and Community Clergy is a must for practitioners, educators, and students who will be entering these vital professions!

Trauma in the Creative and Embodied Therapies

Trauma in the Creative and Embodied Therapies
Author: Anna Chesner
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2020-06-04
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1351066242

Trauma in the Creative and Embodied Therapies is a cross-professional book looking at current approaches to working therapeutically and socially with trauma in a creative and embodied way. The book pays attention to different kinds of trauma – environmental, sociopolitical, early relational, abuse in its many forms, and the trauma of illness – with contributions from international experts, drawn from the fields of the arts therapies, the embodied psychotherapies, as well as nature-based therapy and Playback Theatre. The book is divided into three sections: the first section takes into consideration the wider sociopolitical perspective of trauma and the power of community engagement. In the second section, there are numerous clinical approaches to working with trauma, whether with individuals or groups, highlighting the importance of creative and embodied approaches. In the third section, the focus shifts from client work to the impact of trauma on the practitioner, team, and supervisor, and the importance of creative self-care and reflection in managing this challenging field. This book will be useful for all those working in the field of trauma, whether as clinicians, artists, or social workers.

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Dramatherapy

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Dramatherapy
Author: Linda Caroline Winn
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Total Pages: 146
Release: 1994
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9781853021831

A practical guide for those working in the field of trauma - from the result of war to the aftermath of sexual abuse. It aims to help the sufferer or group, and discusses how they can discover new paths, or be reminded of long-forgotten coping skills.

Understanding Crisis Therapies

Understanding Crisis Therapies
Author: Hilda Loughran
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2011-08-15
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0857005553

Events in people's lives can have a profound impact; anything from moving house or losing a job to the death of a loved one or a natural disaster can push an individual into a state of crisis. Crisis intervention is a brief therapy and immediate response which aims to support the person through the crisis period. This book covers the different influences on crisis therapies and traces the development of crisis theory across its different phases. Each chapter explores a different approach, including psychoanalytic; cognitive, which includes motivational interviewing; systemic; radical; and social construction, which covers solution focused therapy and enhancing resilience. Chapters on the developmental, behavioural, and post-traumatic approaches are also included, and the final chapter illustrates an integrated framework drawing on our knowledge of crisis so far. Case studies are featured throughout to demonstrate the theories and therapies in practice. This clear guide will assist students and practitioners to understand the different types of intervention and how they relate to the theoretical context. It will be a vital text for all those working with people in crisis, including social workers, counsellors, crisis workers and students in these fields.