Crisis Intervention: The Neurobiology of Crisis

by Jeanne Brooks

This manual is meant to help prepare your agency to perform some of the most challenging helping people through crisis. Dr. Brooks has worked in the mental health field for over thirty years with a specialty in crisis, and for the last ten years, she has been training counseling students in crisis intervention. Natural disasters, mass shootings, refugee crises, human sex trafficking, etc. show the growing need for individuals to be prepared to sit with others in their suffering. The need is growing, yet the workers are few. Dr. Brooks has recognized that more and more organizations, disciplines, and ministries are doing crisis intervention with little to no knowledge or understanding of the effects that working with people in crisis has on the crisis worker. This manual will help you gain a better understanding of how trauma effects an individual, as well as how working with people in crisis can affect the interventionist. This information can help you work more effectively by training you and your team members in self-sustainment. This Christian perspective of intervention will help you and your agency become more Christ-like in your approach by instilling a confidence and hope in the most horrific of circumstances, while still maintaining your strong faith in the goodness of God. The preventative practices provided in this manual will help prevent burnout, compassion fatigue, and vicarious trauma for crisis interventionist.

Genres: Nonfiction, Christian, Textbooks, Grad School

128 pages, Paperback

Published November 2, 2017

Reviews

[Justin Dixon · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a good book with good information. Two things, however, led me to give it 3 stars. First, the amount of information. Dr. Brooks does offer some quality insight, but a lot of it is honestly common sense. This book (because of the small quantity of information it provided, in addition to its font, spacing, and margins) would have been better presented as an article.

Second, repetition. This sort of relates to the first point, but Dr. Brooks repeats herself. A lot. She repeats herself throughout the book, within the same chapter, and often within the same paragraph. As I said, she presents quality information, but it is often shallow, common sense, or repeated way to often. If you want a very general review of crisis counseling, give this book a quick read (or maybe just read Wikipedia). If you want a more in-depth and critical approach, look elsewhere.

[Marie · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 ⭐️’s Good info. Short read.