Knowledge and skills for Residential Child and
Youth Care Workers

Book Review
"Planning for effective crisis management requires a holistic approach which recognizes the range of mental health services as well as people's own life contexts. Creating Excellence in Crisis Care takes this unique perspective, illustrating it with compelling examples and useful models." (Bonnie Pape, director of programs and research, Canadian Mental Health Association, National Office)

". . . This new and comprehensive book . . . has made an insightful mark in a challenging and . . . expanding field. Complimenting Hoff's classic clinical text, People in Crisis, Creating Excellence in Crisis Care merits serious attention from all people reforming, training, and working in health care." (Antoon A. Leenaars, past president, American Association of Suicidology and the Canadian Association for Suicide Prevention)

"Creating Excellence in Crisis Care offers us a blueprint for developing crisis care that meets the challenges of limited human and financial resources in an environment of increased demand, while dealing with the diverse set of issues presented by those in crisis." (mdash;Frank R. Campbell, past president of the American Association of Suicidology, director of the Baton Rouge Crisis Intervention Center)

"Nurses who are in any way involved in mental health treatment will find this book crucial to their knowledge and understanding of not what crisis care is, but what crisis care should be." (Linda Young Sahovey, director, Boston Emergency Services Team)

"This unique resource offers a theoretical framework, clinical scenarios, and practical information to help educators and practitioners integrate crisis care into educational curricula and clinical protocols. Hoff and Adamowski do this in a culturally and gAnder sensitive manner while promoting a client-centered empowerment model." (Judy Linden, associate residency director, emergency medicine, associate professor, Boston University School of Medicine)

"This is a well-done book, unique in its focus in the field of crisis care with an emphasis on training and program development instead of the usual focus of clinical intervention. It is a needed resource in the area, and targets healthcare oriented educators, administrators, and program planners. It provides a basic to intermediate level of discussion. This is definitely a book I would recommAnd." (Doody's Review)

Book Description
A Guide to Creating Successful Crisis Care Programs

Produced in association with the Life Crisis Institute

. . . This new and comprehensive book . . . has made an insightful mark in a challenging and . . . expanding field. Complementing Hoff's classic clinical text, People in Crisis, Creating Excellence in Crisis Care merits serious attention from all people reforming, training, and working in health care.

--Antoon A. Leenaars, past president, American Association of Suicidology and the Canadian Association for Suicide Prevention

In this essential resource the authors show how to prepare crisis care clinicians, practitioners, and volunteers to develop programs that will help raise the health of communities in a cost-effective way. Drawing on the best practices from the United States and Canada, the book is filled with vivid examples that clearly demonstrate how a holistic, interdisciplinary, and collaborative approach is the most practical response to the challenges of working with people in crisis.

A    Assaultive Youth: Responding to Physical Assaultiveness in Residential, Community and Health Care Settings (Child & Youth Services) (Hardcover)
by Joel Kupfersmid, Roberta Monkman
 

 

Book Description
Effective Staff Training in Social Care provides a theoretical framework for training and professional development, focusing on group learning in a social care context. It tackles the tensions and dilemmas of those engaged in training amidst a climate of change and a mixed economy of welfare and examines how these influence both the trainer and the learner.
 

      Residential Education As an Option for At-Risk Youth (Monograph Published Simultaneously As Residential Treatment for Children & Youth , Vol 13, No 3) (Hardcover)
by Jerome Beker (Editor), Douglas Magnuson 
 

Book Description
The editors of this volume and most of its authors, dissatisfied with the conventional professional "wisdom" in the United States that holds that residential group care programs for children and youth are intrinsically flawed and counterproductive, have been engaged for many years in the identification and conceptualization of more effective models for the delivery of residential services.