People in crisis: clinical and public health perspectives

Preface

Part I : Understanding and practice of crisis intervention

Crisis theory and practice : introduction and overview

Understanding people in crisis

Identifying people at risk

Helping people in crisis

Family and social network strategies during crisis

Part II : Violence as origin of and response to crisis

Suicide and other self-destructive behavior : understanding and assessment

Helping self-destructive people and survivors of suicide

Crisis of victimization by violence

Violent person : individual and sociocultural factors

Violence and crisis from disaster

Part III : Crises related to situational and transition states

Threats to health status and self-image

Threats to occupational and residential security

Stress and change during life passages.