People in Crisis

Lee Ann Hoff, PhD, is a nurse-anthropologist, crisis specialist, and founding director of the Life Crisis Institute, a not-for-profit organization based in Boston. She is a former professor at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell and visiting professor at the Institute for Applied Psychology in Lisbon, Portugal. Lisa Brown, MSN, is a psychiatric/mental health nurse practitioner. Her practice includes crisis care, follow-up counseling and psychotherapy, and consultation to medical staff in Lowell, Massachusetts. Miracle Hoff, LPC, is director of Fargo Services at Drake Counseling Services, and maintains a crisis intervention, substance abuse, and family counseling caseload. She also provides clinical supervision to substance abuse and mental health interns in Fargo, North Dakota.

Part 1: The Understanding and Practice of Crisis Intervention 1. Crisis Theory and Practice: Introduction and Overview 2. Understanding People in Crisis 3. Crises Rooted in Disparities: Race, Class, Gender, Religion 4. Identifying People at Risk 5. Helping People in Crisis 6. Family and Social Network Strategies During Crisis Part 2: Crisis Related to Developmental and Situational Transitional States 7. Stress and Change During Life Passages 8. Threats to Health and Self-image 9. Threats to Occupational and Residential Security Part 3: Suicide, Violence, and Catastrophic Events 10. Suicide and Other Self-destructive Behavior: Understanding and Assessment 11. Helping Self-destructive People and Survivors of Suicide 12. The Crisis of Victimization by Violence 13. The Violent or Abusive Person: Individual and Sociocultural Factors 14. Violence and Crisis from Disaster. Glossary.