People in Crisis

LEE ANN HOFF is the founding director of the Life Crisis Institute, based in Boston and Ottawa, and is adjunct professor at the University of Ottawa, faculty of health sciences. She serves on the editorial boards of many publications including Psychiatry, Health Care for Women International, and Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior. A nurse anthropologist, she has pioneered the development of community mental health and crisis centers.

Part One: The Understanding and Practice of Crisis Intervention. 1-Crisis Theory and Practice: Introduction and Overview. 2-Understanding people in Crisis. 3-Identifying People in Crisis. 4-Helping People in Crisis. 5-Family and Social Network Strategies During Crisis. Part Two: Violence as Origin of and Response to Crisis. 6-Suicide and Other Self-Destructive Behavior: Understanding and Assessment. 7-Helping Self-Destructive People and Survivors of Suicide. 8-The Crisis of Victimization by Violence. 9-The Violent Person: Individual and Sociocultural Factors. 10-Violence and Crisis from Disaster. Part Three: Crises Related to Situational and Transition States. 11-Changes in Occupational and Residential Status. 13-Stress and Change During Life Passages. 14-People with AIDS: Personal, Community, and Global Perspectives.