This course first gives you a broad view of the concepts and principles of crisis counseling. Then you will examine crisis counseling from a cognitive and brief therapy point of view. Finally, the implications of natural and other such disasters for the therapist are examined.

Textbooks

Crisis Intervention Handbook: Assessment, Treatment & Research 3rd ed. by Albert R. Roberts. New York. Oxford University Press. 2005, ISBN 9780195179910.

Counseling Victims of Violence 2nd ed. Sandra L. Brown. Alameda, CA Hunter House, Inc. 2006. ISBN # 0897934636.