This invaluable practitioner guide and text shows how cognitive-behavioral interventions can help people weather situations of extreme stress and build needed skills for the future. Leading authorities describe effective, time-efficient approaches to managing different types of crises: those related to particular psychological problems, such as panic disorder, suicidal depression, and personality disorders; medical crises; child and family crises; and environmental and situational crises, including large-scale traumatic events. Vivid case material illustrates what the interventions look like in action and how to tailor them to individual clients' needs.

Foreword, Aaron T. Beck 1. Introduction, Frank M. Dattilio and Arthur FreemanI. Psychological Crises 2. Depression and Suicide, Mark A. Reinecke, Jason J. Washburn, and Emily Becker-Weidman 3. Panic Disorder, Frank M. Dattilio and Philip C. Kendall 4. Crisis Intervention Strategies for Treating Law Enforcement and Mental Health Professionals, Laurence Miller 5. The Crisis-Prone Patient: The High-Arousal Cluster B Personality Disorders, Gina M. Fusco and Arthur FreemanII. Medically Related Crises 6. Traumatic Brain Injury, Mary R. Hibbard, Wayne A. Gordon, and Lynne Kothera 7. Substance Misuse and Dependency: Crisis as Process or Outcome, Sharon Morgillo Freeman and Misti Storie 8. Crisis with Medical Patients, Frank M. Dattilio, Elizabeth A. Davis, and Robert M. Goisman 9. Acute and Chronic Pain, Sharon Morgillo FreemanIII. Child and Family Crises 10. Child Sexual Abuse, Anne Hope Heflin and Esther Deblinger 11. Spousal Abuse, L. Kevin Hamberger and Amy Holtzworth-Munroe 12. Couple Problems, Stephen E. Schlesinger and Norman B. Epstein 13. Families in Crisis, Frank M. Dattilio 14. Anger and Aggression in Children and Adolescents, Arthur Freeman and Stephen Timchack 15. Crisis with Older Adults, Helen M. DeVries and Suzann M. Ogland-HandIV. Environmental and Situational Crises 16. Disaster Trauma, Lata K. McGinn and Carrie Spindel 17. Terrorism, Stevan E. Hobfoll, Tamar Galai-Gat, Dawn M. Johnson, and Patricia J. Watson 18. Problem Solving in Crisis Intervention, Joop J. Meijers 19. Rape Trauma, Elizabeth Muran 20. Traumatic Stress Disorders, Laurence MillerV. General Issues in Crisis Work 21. Legal and Ethical Issues in Crisis Intervention, Leon VandeCreek and Samuel Knapp