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Violence Assessment and Intervention : The Practitioner's Handbook by Michael H. Corcoran; James S. Cawood is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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If you are responsible for people, they want and expect you to keep them safe on a regular basis. **Violence Assessment and Intervention: The Practitioner's Handbook** shows you the most effective way to take the initial data and make quick decisions about whether the situation requires an immediate response with full resources or a less intense response. It gives you easy access to the information you need not only to handle emergency situations, but also to prevent them. The principle focus of this book is not sociological theory, or even clinical assessment, but practical intervention, monitoring, and control of violence. It presents techniques for use in any situation, whether you are a mental health professional doing phone intake from a victim of domestic violence, a corporate human resource or security person getting a call about an incident that just occurred, or a law enforcement officer encountering a potential suicide. Using flow charts and step-by-step instructions developed while handling thousands of cases, the authors give practical advice on how to recognize the signals of potential violence by individuals, identify probable victims, and assess escalation of the thr

Who reads Violence Assessment and Intervention : The Practitioner's Handbook?

Author

Michael H. Corcoran; James S. Cawood

Publisher

CRC; CRC Press

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9780849315107

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Psychology, Home & Lifestyle, Science