Crisis Intervention

This book shows mental health providers how to envision crises as time-limited windows of opportunity in which clients can achieve new insights and move in positive directions in their lives. Most mental health practitioners across have been taught to do risk assessments, and to reduce danger to their clients and those around them. However, many providers lack a thorough understanding of the cause and nature of mental health crises-and struggle to safely and successfully provide crisis intervention. Dr. Fraser explains how providers can seize the opportunity of crises and tip them toward rapid resolution. He offers a concrete, easily understandable model for understanding crises in their proper context, engaging with clients through their values, culture, and language, honoring their goals, and breaking cycles of crisis for good. It also shows how different types of crises reflect similar vicious cycles, and how each of those cycles can be tipped toward resolution by embracing the contextual process of change perspective.