Crisis Counseling: A Guide for Pastors and Professionals

by Scott Floyd

Dr. Floyd helps readers understand the nature of crises events, how individuals are impacted, and how to best provide help during and following times of trauma, loss, and grief.

Genres: Counselling

280 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 12, 2008

Reviews

[Luia · Rating 2 out of 5]

Nutshell: reads a little bit like a textbook, but has some good suggestions and helps the reader understand crises and their follow-on effects from both an academic and a biblical perspective
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Floyd spends a fair amount of time on explaining the physical and mental reactions following crises before he moves on to suggestions of how to approach the situation from a ministering perspective. I appreciated that he attacked the subject from both a professional counseling point of view (this will help ministers and kind-hearted individuals without training who are often exposed to grief-stricken counselees keep from burning out) and from a pastoral point of view (to help guide people into the proper way to think about crises so that they can answer some of the tougher questions that tend to follow crises).

[RevRonR · Rating 4 out of 5]

Exellent basic book for crisis counseling in critical incidents or other forms of disaster trauma. Comes from a Christian perspective, however, it's a good read for anyone interested in working as a counselor in disaster relief.

[Ann Gemmel · Rating 5 out of 5]

I had to read this for a graduate school class in Crisis Counseling. Excellent, highly accessible read. Wonderful resource. This will be one I return to again and again. Highly recommend. The chapters on children as well as adolescents were very helpful!

[Johanna · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nice intro to crisis/disaster work from a Christian perspective, lots of helpful insight. Covers various types of loss, crisis, trauma, grief. Uses CISD intervention model, which I'm not partial to, but still very relevant advice in addition to that.