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Title: This is a must have.
Review: The scholarly journal work that is available at this time is very limited. What can be found is dated and of limited use. This is a text book, and so is fundamentally useful for courses where it is required but since crisis intervention is an aspect of every class I am taking and each paper I have to write, I find myself going back to this source constantly. Outside of the realm of paper writing, where sourcing isn't an issue, this is a practical guide for crisis intervention for anyone who might need such information.The inclusion of vicarious trauma, the actual definition of what crisis is (the reaction to an activating event and not the event itself) and warnings about interfering with the natural coping mechanisms by acting too fast make this invaluable. There is information in this text which ought to be intuitive but is not and is well worth knowing. This will remain on my "go to" shelf for a long time to come.
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