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Strategic interventions for people in crisis, trauma and disaster

People in Crisis will enable therapists to walk into potentially explosive situations with a thorough understanding of the interactional dynamics and a plan of action. Here, the communication principles for high stress or dangerous situations developed and confirmed in clinical practice are outlined. The steps of intervention, such as making telephone contact, arriving at the scene, and initiating strategies to defuse the emergency, are described in detail. Once the situation has been defused, interactional patterns that have led to violent fighting, child abuse, sexual assault, wife-beating,

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