Helping Victims of Violent Crime : Assessment, Treatment, and Evidence-based Practice.
Title:
Helping Victims of Violent Crime : Assessment, Treatment, and Evidence-based Practice.
Author:
Green, Diane L.
ISBN:
9780826125095
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (279 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- About the Authors -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 Victims of Violent Crime: An Introduction -- Scope of the Problem -- Historical Perspective on Victimology -- Victim Programs, Legislation, and Funding -- Costs: Tangible and Human Costs of Victimization -- Emotional, Physical, Financial, and Spiritual Impact -- Systems Theoretical Framework -- Systems Theory -- Stress and Coping -- Crisis and Attribution Theories: How Victims Experience Their Victimization -- Crisis Theory -- Attribution Theory -- Summary of Theoretical Framework -- Chapter 2 Grief and Loss Reactions and Theories -- Overview, Definitions, and Common Grief Reactions -- Grief Work, Stages and Phases -- Teresa Rando -- Robert Neimeyer -- Bowlby and Parkes -- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross -- Which Theory Is Right? -- Summary -- Chapter 3 Stress and Coping Model for Victims of Crime -- Appraisal -- Social Support -- Perceived and Received Social Support -- Formal Social Support -- Social Support as a Mediator and a Moderator -- Coping -- Coping as Mediator -- Coping Dimensions -- Well-Being -- Distress -- Depression -- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder -- Anger -- Anxiety -- Summary -- Chapter 4 Crisis Intervention -- History -- Practice Models -- Evidence-Based Practice Needs -- Guidelines for Practice -- Roberts's Seven-Stage Crisis Intervention Model (R-SSCIM) -- Critical Incident Stress Management -- Critical Incident Stress Debriefing -- Requirements for Intervention -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5 Cases of Child Abuse -- Assessment -- Special Issues in Child Abuse Cases -- Risk Factors -- Assessment of Children, Parent/Caregiver-Child and Other Familial Relationships -- Use of Standardized Measures -- Summary of Assessment -- Treatment: Issues and Interventions -- Overview: General Principles of Treatment -- Family-Centered Practice.
Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy -- Additional Treatment Approaches -- Summary of Treatment -- Chapter 6 Intimate Partner Violence: Overview, Stages of Change, Crisis Intervention, and Time-Limited Treatment -- Case Scenarios -- Case 1: Cathy -- Case 2: Julia -- Case 3: Cynthia -- Barriers to Seeking Help -- Case 1 -- Case 2 -- Case 3 -- Case 4 -- Myths and Facts -- 23 Warning Signs of a Potentially Abusive Partner -- Prevalence and Costs -- Continuum of the Duration and Severity of Woman Battering Based on 501 Cases -- Methodology -- Findings -- Duration and Severity Level of Woman-Battering Continuum -- Practice Implications -- Roberts's Seven-Stage Crisis Intervention Model -- Conclusion -- Chapter 7 Sexual Assault -- Assessment -- Special Issues in Sexual Assault Cases -- Victim Assessment -- Use of Standardized Measures -- Treatment Planning -- Summary of Assessment -- Treatment: Issues and Interventions -- Overview: General Principles of Treatment -- Stress Inoculation Training -- Prolonged Exposure Therapy -- Cognitive Processing Therapy -- Multiple Channel Exposure Therapy -- Summary -- Chapter 8 Homicide Victims -- Assessment -- Special Issues in Homicide Cases -- Victim Assessment -- Use of Standardized Measures -- Treatment Planning -- Summary of Assessment -- Treatment: Issues and Interventions -- Overview: General Principles of Treatment -- Revictimization Issues -- Grief Therapy and Meaning Reconstruction -- Crisis Intervention -- Stress Reduction Group -- Conclusion -- Chapter 9 Elder Abuse -- Assessment -- Special Issues and Assessment in Elder Abuse Cases -- Summary of Assessment -- Treatment: Issues and Interventions -- Overview: General Principles of Treatment -- Prevention/Treatment -- Chapter 10 Terrorism/Mass Violence -- Assessment -- Special Issues in Mass Violence Cases -- Victim Assessment.
Use of Standardized Measures -- Treatment Planning -- Treatment: Issues and Interventions -- Overview: General Principles of Treatment -- Early Intervention -- Triage -- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy -- Critical Incident Stress Management -- Psychotraumatology -- Chapter 11 School Violence: Crisis Intervention Protocols and Prevention Strategies -- Introduction -- Review of the Literature -- Crisis Impacts and Treatment Issues for Children and Adolescents Experiencing School Violence and Community Disasters -- School-Based Crisis Intervention -- School Crisis Response Model -- School-Based Crisis Teams -- Summary -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
Abstract:
Over the past two decades, violent crime has become one of the most serious domestic problems in the United States. Approximately 13 million people (nearly 5% of the U.S. population) are victims of crime every year, and of that, approximately one and a half million are victims of violent crime. Ensuring quality of life for victims of crime is therefore a major challenge facing policy makers and mental health providers. Helping Victims of Violent Crime grounds victim assistance treatments in a victim-centered and strengths perspective. The book explores victim assistance through systems theory: the holistic notion of examining the client in his/her environment and a key theoretical underpinning of social work practice. The basic assumption of systems theory is homeostasis. A crime event causes a change in homeostasis and often results in disequilibrium. The victim's focus at this point is to regain equilibrium. Under the systems metatheory, coping, crisis and attribution theories provide a good framework for victim-centered intervention. Stress and coping theories posit that three factors determine the state of balance: perception of the event, available situational support, and coping mechanisms. Crisis theory offers a framework to understand a victim's response to a crime. The basic assumption of crisis theory asserts that when a crisis occurs, people respond with a fairly predictable physical and emotional pattern. The intensity and manifestation of this pattern may vary from individual to individual. Finally, attribution theory asserts that individuals make cognitive appraisals of a stressful situation in both positive and negative ways. These appraisals are based on the individual's assertion that they can understand, predict, and control circumstances and result in the victim's assignment of responsibility for solving or helping with
problems that have arisen from the crime event. In summary, these four theories can delineate a definitive model for approach to the victimization process. It is from this theoretical framework that Treating Victims of Violent Crime offers assessments and interventions with a fuller understanding of the victimization recovery process. The book includes analysis of victims of family violence (child abuse, elder abuse, partner violence) as well as stranger violence (sexual assault, homicide, and terrorism). ;chapter.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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