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Crisis Intervention and Crisis Management

Strategies that Work in Schools and Communities

• By Rosemary A. Thompson

• Price: $27.95
• Binding: Paperback (also available in Hardback)
• Pages: 320
• Published by: Routledge
• Publication Date: 23rd January 2004
• ISBN: 978-0-415-94494-6

About the Book

This book discusses steps helping professionals should take in order to prepare for a crisis in their schools and community. The author introduces a Crisis Management Plan, which discusses ways to restore a school/community to its pre-crisis equilibrium. The author also includes information on how schools should talk to media personnel and parents in times of a crisis, checklists, assessment instruments, and sample documentation forms that can be used in times of a crisis.

Table of Contents

Preface
1. A Glimpse of Terrorist Acts: Both International and Domestic
2. Crisis, Critical Incidents, Disasters and Terrorism: Fundamental Emotional Reactions from a Developmental Perspective
3. Crisis Intervention/Crisis Management: First Response Procedures
4. Critical Incidents and First Response Procedures
5. Disaster Response Procedures
6. Strategies for the Resolution of Grief and Loss
7. Debriefing Survivors Following a Crisis, Disaster or Critical Incident
8. Activities for Children and Adolescents to Process Grief
9. Sample Policies to Prevent Legal Liabilities, Assessments and Screening Instruments
10. Compassion Fatigue