Main description:

Crisis, Trauma, and Disaster: A Clinician's Guide teaches counselors how to respond and intervene with individuals, groups and organizations. The book begins with a description of the counselor's role and responsibilities and then presents chapters on crisis, trauma and disasters with corresponding chapters on working with those affected. Each chapter defines the issue and contrasts it with general counseling requirements, and then presents the history and theory as well as common interventions. Each chapter contains The Counselor's Toolkit and presents assessment, case conceptualization and treatment approaches followed by case illustrations. The text concludes with a chapter on emerging trends and a chapter on caring for those who care.

Contents:

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
1. The Context of Caring
Organization of the Text
Many Kinds of Helpers
Educating Clinicians
The Counselor's Toolkit
Spectrum of Crisis, Trauma, and Disaster
Summary
Extended Learning Exercises
Additional Resources
2. History and Theoretical Foundations of Crisis and Crisis Counseling
Crisis Counseling Within a Mental Health Context
The History and Theories of Crisis Counseling
Classifying Crisis and Crisis Events
Models of Crisis Counseling
Summary
Extended Learning Exercises
Additional Resources
3. Caring for Those Affected by Crisis
Knowledge, Skill(s), Awareness, Techniques, and Resources
Skills
Assessment and Case Conceptualization
Holistic Conceptualization of Client Concerns
Evaluation of Vulnerabilities
Evaluation of Resiliencies
Evaluation of Protective Factors
Acute and Short-Term Treatment Planning
Client Directed Empowerment and Holistic Healing
Summary
Extended Learning Exercises
Additional Resources
4. History and Theoretical Foundations of Trauma
Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My! Differentiating Trauma From Crisis and Disaster
Defining Trauma
A Brief History of Trauma and Trauma-Informed Counseling
Models of Trauma Treatment
Children
Adolescents
Adults
Summary
Extended Learning Exercises
Additional Resources
5. Caring for Those Affected by Trauma
The Counselor's Toolkit
Knowledge
Skills and Techniques
Adult Trauma
Adjuncts to Treatment
General and Advanced Skills and Awareness
Treating Trauma via Group Process
Community Culture
Assessment and Case Conceptualization
History of Multiple Traumas
Summary
Extended Learning Exercises
Additional Resources
6. Disasters
Defining Disaster
History and Emerging Theories of Disaster Mental Health and Disaster Responding
The Development of DMH Theories and Models
Disaster in Context
Individual and Community Responses
Ecological, Systemic, and Contextual Model of Individual In- and With-Community Response
Summary
Extended Learning Exercises
Additional Resources
7. Caring for Those Affected by Disaster
The Counselor's Toolkit
Knowledge
Early and Mid-Stage Disaster Mental Health Interventions
In-Depth Disaster Mental Health Interventions
Treatment Considerations for Children and Adolescents
Assessments in Disaster Mental Health
Summary
Extended Learning Exercises
Additional Resources
8. Caring for Those Who Care
The Counselor's Toolkit
Finding Balance
Burnout, Impairment, Compassion Fatigue, Secondary and Vicarious Trauma
Vulnerabilities to Secondary Traumatic Stress and Vicarious Trauma
Clinician's Orientation to Helping
Responding to Crisis, Trauma, and Disaster
The Role of Personal and Professional Boundaries
Summary
Extended Learning Exercises
Additional Resources
9. Emerging Trends
Trends in Clinical Training
Summary
References
Index