Life Space Crisis Intervention: Talking with Students in Conflict

by Nicholas James Long, Mary M. Wood, Frank A. Fecser

...a professional resource for educators, psychologist, & counselors that focuses on life space crisis intervention a strategy to help guide young people through stressful experiences... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0890798702
• ISBN13: 9780890798706
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Pro-Ed
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 28.6" x 26.7" x 26.7"

Customer Reviews

Very Good!

This is a book we used for a course I took in graduate school. It has been very helpful.

An Excellent and Comprehensive Resource

Anyone familiar with special education or child mental health knows how few real "tools" there are in the box to deal with children who are emotionally disturbed and/or behaviorally disordered. This book provides the reader with some extremely HELPFUL approaches, and is highly recommended. First, the book provides an overview of the "conflict cycle," one that rightfully places the adult in the transaction between the child in crisis, and his/her social environment. It provides a perspective on helping that is practical, and rarely seen in the professional literature. It helps adults understand what to do -- and what not to do -- when a child is agitated, upset, angry or explosive. Second, the book provides an in-depth description of Life Space Crisis Intervention (LSCI) in its various manifestations. It locates LSCI within the conflict cycle, and gives the reader solid techniques for helping a troubled child come to terms with his or her distorted thoughts and maladaptive emotional and behavioral reactions. It does not hold out LSCI as a panacea or as "THE ANSWER." Rather, the authors communicate their understanding of the fact that working with troubled children and youth involves commitment, concerted effort, and that in helping, one size never fits all. In the opinion of this reviewer, this book belongs on the shelves of all aspiring and practicing teachers, educational administrators, psychologists, social workers, nurses and psychiatrists who work with ED/BD children, as well as in the hands of line staff in agencies and residences for such children.