Reviews for Crisis Intervention and Prevention

The average rating for Crisis Intervention and Prevention based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-12-05 00:00:00 Roberta Gibson Whew! I can't believe I finally finished this. I feel like I should make a siyum. There was a lot of good information here; unfortunately, it wasn't easy to get through. I had to take copious notes while I was reading in order to make sure I was absorbing everything (I'm really looking forward to reading more psychology texts, now that I can do so away from the computer). Bowen's theory is very appealing, and offers a useful framework for conceptualizing a wide range of problems. Sometimes, however, it almost feels like the old adage, "to a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail." I do like systems theory, but I think there are a lot of useful ideas from other schools of thought that may be ignored if one takes an exclusively systemic orientation. It seems best to me for therapists to use this book to inform their case conceptualization and aspects of treatment, but not to dictate it exclusively.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-10-11 00:00:00 Shannon Velasquez Very interesting, enlightening and helpful theory for understanding family processes and how they can lead or contribute to a range of psychopathologies often manifesting themselves in a single member of a family when it is the family unit itself as a whole that is pathological and hence it is the whole family that requires therapy.