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Welcome to the Crisis Intervention Network. Our site has been designed to provide information regarding crisis intervention strategies and guidelines, lethality assessment measures, suicide prevention techniques, and domestic violence screening as presented by a team of internationally recognized experts. Our goal is to serve as a national resource for students and professionals.
News & Updates
If it has been some time since your last visit, or this is your first time visiting the Crisis Intervention Network, the most recent changes to our site are listed below.
- August, 2005: See the August 2005 edition of the Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention Journal (vol 5, no 3) where Roberts and Jennings article focuses on Dr. Roberts' expert testimony about how a grossly inadequate suicide assessment resulted in death by hanging. The focus of this article is on negligence of a social worker & physician, and how they ignored the standard of care. This has important implications and lessons learned.Please visit www.brief-treatment.oupjournals.org
- June, 2005: Several new books have been added to the site, check out the publications page for more info!
- May, 2005: In the latest edition of the Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention Journal Drs. Yeager, Roberts, and colleagues focus on the approximately 1500 inpatient hospital suicides that take place each year in the US & what can be done to protect the psychiatric patient from self harm. 13 photos are included to illustrate proactive methods of preventing the patient from hanging themselves or barracading themselves in their room. Please visit www.brief-treatment.oupjournals.org
for more information about this special article.
- In May & August 2004 both special issues of the Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention Journal (Volume 4, Nos. 2 & 3) on evidence-based practice in mental health was published, special editors were Dr. Ed Mullen from Columbia University School of Social Work and Dr. David Streiner from the University of Toronto Department of Psychiatry. Please visit www.brief-treatment.oupjournals.org
for more information about these special issues.
For a complete archived list of news please click
here.
Featured Publications
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Ending Intimate Abuse:Practical Guidance and Survival Strategies (2005)
Edited by Albert R. Roberts & Beverly Schenkman Roberts
This is the first book to examine domestic violence in terms of a continuum of five distinct categories or levels of woman battering. This book, based on 501 in-depth qualitative interviews, places emphasis on how to recognize the warning signs of a dangerous relationship and urges women who have been battered in a dating, cohabiting, or marital relationship to end it quickly. This very practical and comprehensive study, which took more than seven years to complete, includes a step by step safety protocol and survival guidelines. To find out more about this publication, click here |
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Crisis Intervention Handbook: Assessment, Treatment, and Research (3rd Edition 2005)
Edited by Dr. Albert R. Roberts
Now expanded and fully updated, Crisis Intervention Handbook: Assessment, Treatment, and Research, 3rd Edition, focuses on crisis intervention services for persons who are victims of natural disasters, school-based and home-based violence, violent crimes, and personal or family crises. It applies a unifying model of crisis intervention, making it appropriate for front-line crisis workers--clinical psychologists, social workers, psychiatric-mental health nurses--and graduate students who need to know the latest steps and methods for intervening effectively with persons in acute crisis. To find out more about this publication, click here |
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Juvenile Justice Sourcebook: Past, Present and Future
Edited by Dr. Albert R. Roberts
Coverage includes history, trends, policies and practices, current research on model programs, case studies, and information about the functions and legal responsibilities of various agencies and institutions. An epilogue reports on the National Survey of Juvenile Offender Treatment Programs That Work, and a glossary covers terms, programs, and psychiatric diagnoses. To find out more about this publication, click here |
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Evidence-Based Practice Manual: Research and Outcome
Measures in Health and Human Services
Edited by Albert R. Roberts & Kenneth R. Yeager
Includes 104 original chapters by such internationally
known medical, psychology, and social work researchers
as Bernard L. Bloom, Eillen Gambrill, Edward J. Mullen,
Peter E. Nathan, Natalia E. Pane, Fredric G. Reamer, William
J. Reid, Aaron Rosen, Richard N. Rosenthal, and more.
This publication is a must for any reference library,
acquisitions library, or anyone with an interest in evidence-based
practice. Click
here for more information about the Evidence-Based
Practice Manual.
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