People in Crisis, 7th edition, remains the most comprehensive and user-friendly text available to health and social-service professionals. The new edition includes revised case examples and expanded coverage of cross-cultural content, including updated analyses of the roles and effects of violence, unconscious racism, and crisis responses. Each chapter illustrates the application of crisis concepts and intervention strategies across a wide range of health and mental health settings, and chapters also contain closing summaries that include discussion questions, references, and connections to the online resources available on the bookșs companion website.
About the Author
Lee Ann Hoff, PhD, is a nurse-anthropologist, crisis specialist, and founding director of the Life Crisis Institute, a not-for-profit organization based in Boston. She is a former professor at the University of Massachusetts–Lowell and visiting professor at the Institute for Applied Psychology in Lisbon, Portugal.
Lisa Brown, MSN, is a psychiatric/mental health nurse practitioner. Her practice includes crisis care, follow-up counseling and psychotherapy, and consultation to medical staff in Lowell, Massachusetts.
Miracle Hoff, LPC, is director of Fargo Services at Drake Counseling Services, and maintains a crisis intervention, substance abuse, and family counseling caseload. She also provides clinical supervision to substance abuse and mental health interns in Fargo, North Dakota.
