A Practical Guide for University Crisis Response

A Practical Guide for University Crisis Response
Author: Mark D. Lerner
Publisher:
Total Pages: 118
Release: 2003
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

This book provides a structure and process for effectively managing the wide spectrum of university-based crises, from the seemingly mundane to the most severe. This guide recognizes that crisis response cannot be delegated solely to administrators and members of a Crisis Response Team. Effective crisis management is the responsibility of all university personnel. This publication introduces and incorporates a practical and effective strategy for addressing the emotional needs of people during traumatic events, Acute Traumatic Stress Management (ATSM).

Crisis Intervention

Crisis Intervention
Author: Alan A. Cavaiola
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Total Pages: 669
Release: 2017-10-24
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1506322409

Crisis Intervention takes into account various environments and populations across the lifespan to provide students with practical guidelines for managing crises. Drawing on over 25 years of relevant experience, authors Alan A. Cavaiola and Joseph E. Colford cover several different types of crises frequently encountered by professionals in medical, school, work, and community settings. Models for effectively managing these crises are presented along with the authors’ own step-by-step approach, the Listen–Assess–Plan–Commit (LAPC) model, giving students the freedom to select a model that best fits their personal style or a given crisis. Future mental health professionals will gain the knowledge, skills, and confidence to help their clients manage the crises they will encounter in their day-to-day lives.

Campus Crisis Management

Campus Crisis Management
Author: Eugene L. Zdziarski
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2007-03-30
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0787978744

A practical, hands-on resource that is filled with examples,samples, forms, and checklists, Campus Crisis Managementwill help administrators evaluate, revise, or establish acomprehensive crisis management plan appropriate for theirinstitution. Campus Crisis Management contains the must-haveinformation on crisis management and · Explains how todevelop a comprehensive crisis management system · Identifies thedifferent types of crises using the Crisis Matrix · Examines thestructure, operation, and training of a crisis team · Presents acomprehensive approach for developing a campus crisis managementplan · Exploresstrategies for working with the media · Tells how towork with outside agencies · Includesinformation on critical incident stress management

Campus Crisis Management

Campus Crisis Management
Author: Eugene L. Zdziarski
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 363
Release: 2020-12-29
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1000285138

Campus Crisis Management is a practical resource that helps campus administrators evaluate, revise, or establish a comprehensive crisis management plan appropriate for their college or university. Filled with examples, assessment tools, and checklists, this book describes the individuals who should be involved in developing a campus plan, what a plan should include, as well as a variety of crisis events and issues that should be addressed in a comprehensive crisis management plan. Including contributions from renowned practitioners at all levels, this fully revised, new edition contains the must-have information on crisis management, such as: How to develop a comprehensive crisis management system The different types of crises using the crisis matrix The structure, operation, and training of a crisis team Strategies for working with the media New chapters addressing behavioral intervention teams, active shooter situations, Title IX guidance, campus demonstrations, outbreaks of infectious and contagious diseases, and special event management. From a senior administrator working with an institution-wide emergency operations team, to a new professional looking to develop plans and protocols to respond to critical incidents, Campus Crisis Management is a comprehensive guide to planning and preparing for campus emergencies of any scale.

Crisis Intervention Handbook

Crisis Intervention Handbook
Author: Albert R. Roberts
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 873
Release: 2005-07-14
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 019972668X

As a result of the growing amount of acute crisis events portrayed in the media that impact the lives of the general public, interest in crisis intervention, response teams, management, and stabilization has grown tremendously in the past decade. However, there exists little to no literature designed to give timely and comprehensive help for crisis intervention teams. This is a thorough revision of the first complete and authoritative handbook that prepares the crisis counselor for rapid assessment and timely crisis intervention in the 21st century. Expanded and fully updated, the Crisis Intervention Handbook: Assessment, Treatment, and Research, Third Edition focuses on crisis intervention services for persons who are victims of natural disasters, school-based and home-based violence, violent crimes, and personal or family crises. It applies a unifying model of crisis intervention, making it appropriate for front-line crisis workers-clinical psychologists, social workers, psychiatric-mental health nurses, and graduate students who need to know the latest steps and methods for intervening effectively with persons in acute crisis.

A Practical Approach to Trauma

A Practical Approach to Trauma
Author: Priscilla Dass-Brailsford
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2007-02-14
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1412916380

A Practical Approach to Trauma: Empowering Interventions provides trauma counselors with effective guidelines that enhance skills and improve expertise in conducting empowering therapeutic interventions. Taking a practitioner’s perspective, author Priscilla Dass-Brailsford focuses on practical application and skill building in an effort to understand the impact of extreme stress and violence on the human psyche. provides trauma counselors with effective guidelines that enhance skills and improve expertise in conducting empowering therapeutic interventions. Taking a practitioner’s perspective, author Priscilla Dass-Brailsford focuses on practical application and skill building in an effort to understand the impact of extreme stress and violence on the human psyche.

Preparing for Crises in the Schools

Preparing for Crises in the Schools
Author: Stephen E. Brock
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 438
Release: 2001-01-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

A step-by-step guidebook for advance preparation and early response to school crises This Second Edition of Preparing for Crises in the Schools arrives at a critical moment. With several recent dramatic examples of school violence and other tragedies afflicting communities nationwide, the need for school districts to take proactive measures–rather than merely react to a crisis–is critical. This completely updated edition offers practical plans for laying the important groundwork to ensure that crisis response will be both immediate and thorough in the wake of tragedy. Authored by three school crisis response planning experts, it offers advice on early detection of trouble, developing plans and procedures to intervene with youths quickly and successfully, and conducting a school in-service workshop on crisis response planning and intervention. Essential for counselors, school psychologists, teachers, and administrators alike, this book helps ensure that schools are not caught by surprise when a crisis occurs.

The Complete Guide to Crisis & Trauma Counseling

The Complete Guide to Crisis & Trauma Counseling
Author: H. Norman Wright
Publisher: Baker Books
Total Pages: 412
Release: 2011-12-14
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1441267581

Many pastors and lay counselors have had minimal training in clinical methods of grief and trauma counseling. The Complete Guide to Crisis and Trauma Counseling is a biblical, practical guide to pastoral counseling written by one of the most respected Christian therapists of our time. Dr. H. Norman Wright brings more than forty years of clinical and classroom experience to this topic. He shares real-life dialogues from his decades in private practice to demonstrate healthy, healing counseling sessions. Readers will learn how to counsel and coach both believers and nonbelievers who are in crisis, how to walk alongside them through the hours, weeks, and months following their trauma, and how to help them find the path to complete restoration.

A Guide to Crisis Intervention

A Guide to Crisis Intervention
Author: Kristi Kanel
Publisher: Brooks/Cole
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Crisis intervention (Mental health services)
ISBN: 9781285739908

Provides readers with the skills necessary to handle any crisis situation. This title utilizes the comprehensive ABC Model of Crisis Intervention, which can be used as effectively for day-to-day interactions as for emergency situations.

This is Not a Firedrill

This is Not a Firedrill
Author: Rick A. Myer
Publisher: Wiley
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2010-12-06
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780470458044

Practical Information and Tools to Create and Implement a Comprehensive College Campus Crisis Management Program Written by three seasoned crisis intervention/prevention specialists with over fifty years combined experience in the field, This is NOT a Fire Drill: Crisis Intervention and Prevention on College Campuses is a practical guide to creating a comprehensive college campus crisis management program. Authors Rick Myer, Richard James, and Patrice Moulton provide university administrators, faculty, and staff with invaluable hands-on examples, general tactics, and strategies along with specific prevention, intervention, and post-crisis logistics and techniques that can be applied to almost any crisis likely to be confronted on a college campus. This is NOT a Fire Drill features a host of helpful resources, including: A proven individual/organization assessment tool to ensure school professionals and staff take appropriate action to protect students, the college, and the community Thought-provoking case examples, activities, and illustrative dialogues that provide opportunities for reflection and practice A checklist to get a crisis prevention and intervention plan for human dilemmas up and running A decision-tree model to guide the response and recovery to crisis This is NOT a Fire Drill provides the necessary tools to address the emotional, cognitive, and behavioral responses of students and staff as they attempt to negotiate a crisis and its aftermath.