Creating excellence in crisis care
Subtitle: a guide to effective training and program designs
By: Lee Ann Hoff, Kazimiera Adamowski ; forewords by Richard Ramsay, Leona L. Eggert.
Contributors: Adamowski, Kazimiera.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publishers
Published: 1998
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
Subjects: Crisis intervention (Mental health services) -- Study and teaching.; Crisis intervention (Mental health services) -- Administration.
Description: Drawing on the best practices from the United States and Canada, the book is filled with vivid examples that clearly demonstrate how a holistic, interdisciplinary, and collaborative approach is the most practical response to the challenges of working with people in crisis.

This comprehensive text offers a field-tested framework and systematic method for including crisis content - critical life events, violence, victimization, suicide, and psychiatric emergencies - in the formal training of health and other human services professionals.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-233) and index