In crisis theory the central concept is that a living system in dynamic equilibrium, equipped
with a store-house of coping mechanisms that can be adapted to most life situations, can …

The history of many psychiatric patients suggests that significant changes in personality
development appear to have taken place during a period of crisis, and further examination …

In the course of one's life, there will be inevitable numerous events that are potentially
stressful, eg, death, illness, and birth, and that may disturb individual or family homeostasis …

In most cases the decision to institutionalize a child stems from the parents' inability to deal
with or control the child's acting out behavior. Typically the family has tried all other treatment …

A large number of children present to paediatricians with psychological problems caused by
the ordinary viscissitudes of development and of modern day family life, with its highrate of …

AT Grady Hospital in Atlanta, the Grady Psychiatric System handled approximately 12,-000
new cases a year with the primary emphasis on family crisis intervention. With thistechnique …

Presents a model for crisis intervention with children and families in which the goal is
prevention of psychiatric hospitalization of the child. The model integrates concepts and …

This is a wide-ranging analysis of the factors that affect children and their families when
faced with overwhelming chronic disease. The author quite rightly compares those issues …

RISES can be classified as either sit-C uational or maturational. In both types, a person
experiences a crisis when he perceives a stressful event as a threat to his equilibrium. His …

Increasingly in the last decade, adolescent patients have come to the attention of
psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers. Characteristically, when a teenager comes …