Table of Contents:
  • Family dynamics. Family crises facing schools
  • The family as a system
  • Families in crisis
  • Review of the stages of intervention
  • Stages of intervention. Preparing for the interview: supportive procedures and crisis worker profiles
  • Stage one: structuring the interview
  • Stage two: defining the family's understanding of the crisis
  • Stage three: defining the intervenor's understanding of the crisis
  • Stage four: determining the nature of the family system
  • Stage five: determining boundaries, subsystems, and process inhibitors and/or strengths
  • Stage six: assessing the level of danger
  • Stage seven: presenting a different cognitive understanding of the crisis for the family
  • Stage eight: identification, management, and acceptance of feelings precipitated by the crisis
  • Stage nine: engaging the family in the problem-solving process
  • Stage ten: Identifying and selecting the problem
  • determining and accepting the solutions
  • Stage eleven: Setting the time table and rehearsing the chosen solution
  • Stage twelve: reassessing the family status
  • Special considerations. Grief: family related issues / James Couillard
  • Chemical dependency: the adolescent and the family / William L. Harshman
  • Crisis intervention with sexual minority youth and their families: an overview for educators / Michael W. Hazelton
  • Appendix: Guides and tools for the stages of intervention.