Crisis Intervention and Crisis Management: Strategies that Work in Schools and Communities [Hardcover]

This book discusses steps helping professionals should take in order to prepare for a crisis in their schools and community. The author introduces a Crisis Management Plan, which discusses ways to restore a school/community to its pre-crisis equilibrium. The author also includes information on how schools should talk to media personnel and parents in times of a crisis, checklists, assessment instruments, and sample documentation forms that can be used in times of a crisis.Preface
1. A Glimpse of Terrorist Acts: Both International and Domestic
2. Crisis, Critical Incidents, Disasters and Terrorism: Fundamental Emotional Reactions from a Developmental Perspective
3. Crisis Intervention/Crisis Management: First Response Procedures
4. Critical Incidents and First Response Procedures
5. Disaster Response Procedures
6. Strategies for the Resolution of Grief and Loss
7. Debriefing Survivors Following a Crisis, Disaster or Critical Incident
8. Activities for Children and Adolescents to Process Grief
9. Sample Policies to Prevent Legal Liabilities, Assessments and Screening Instruments
10. Compassion Fatigue I believe this book clearly extricates the need for strategic crisis management in schools throughout America. Without a doubt, critical incidents and disastrous situations impose upon the learning of students and impact the culture of the community.

The writing is superb and offers magnanimous research data for educators in their quest to develop programs for respective professionals who are given the task of ensuring students feel safe in schools. This information will also assist professionals in higher education as they prepare education candidates for real-life episodes in schools and communities. -- Norma W. Brumage, Ed.D., Norfolk State University, Associate Professor/Secondary Education and School Leadership
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