Krizová intervence – Vodáčková Daniela (2020)

Today, a variety of different facilities providing crisis assistance are available to people facing urgent crisis situations, staffed by professionals and volunteers. This publication, authored by a wide collective, summarizes the current state of the field that serves as the foundation for their work and describes the basic procedures of crisis intervention in various situations. The introductory part of the book characterizes the common features of life situations in which people seek crisis help and shows the possibilities of professional assistance in crises. It provides an overview of crisis intervention workplaces both in our country and abroad. The theoretical foundations and individual steps of various forms and techniques of crisis intervention are discussed in detail - face-to-face (with individuals, couples, groups); telephone assistance, mobile services (outreach, fieldwork), and crisis intervention during disasters. In a special section, the authors discuss the main types of crisis situations: crises associated with individual phases of human life (crisis intervention for children, adolescents, and their families, crisis situations for women and men, in old age; crises related to partnership, marriage, and sexuality); psychospiritual crises; crises associated with mental disorders (clients with personality disorders, with...