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This book clearly and creatively lays out effective techniques for rapidly responding to a wide variety of real-world crises. Empirically solid and clinically astute, this work is without peer as a guide to providing urgent care. When time is of the essence, every practitioner will want to have Kleespies' book within arm's reach. --John Monahan, PhD, Doherty Professor of Law, University of Virginia <br> This book provides an extraordinarily well-stocked workroom of tools necessary for today's clinicians. It begins with an awareness of the appalling deficiency in graduate clinical training to ready mental health clinicians to deal with a wide and anxiety-provoking range of psychiatric crises. It succeeds admirably in providing the essential knowledge and competencies that readers need in order to become effective interventionists. Moreover, it helps clinicians contain and manage both their affect and their exposure to malpractice risk should a patient threaten violence to self ors

[Kleespies] does a masterful job of weaving together theory and practice in order to form a model curriculum for teaching the graduate level mental health student about psychological emergencies. In addition to graduate level students, for those clinicians who have learned about suicide, violence, and the victims of violence by the seat of their pants' (as is more generally the case than not) this book can only add to their depth of understanding and competence....the work is exhilarating and fulfilling. The knowledge presented in this book can prepare clinicians to act quickly and competently in emergency situations. Dr. Kleespies deserves congratulations and thanks for this highly useful contribution to the field of emergency mental health. /m-/ Social Work in Health Care (Katherine Bordley in Volume 29, Number 4, 1999) <br>

This book clearly and creatively lays out effective techniques for rapidly responding to a wide variety of real-world crises. Empirically solid and clinically astute, this work is without peer as a guide to providing urgent care. When time is of the essence, every practitioner will want to have Kleespies' book within arm's reach. --John Monahan, PhD, Doherty Professor of Law, University of Virginia <br> This book provides an extraordinarily well-stocked workroom of tools necessary for today's clinicians. It begins with an awareness of the appalling deficiency in graduate clinical training to ready mental health clinicians to deal with a wide and anxiety-provoking range of psychiatric crises. It succeeds admirably in providing the essential knowledge and competencies that readers need in order to become effective interventionists. Moreover, it helps clinicians contain and manage both their affect and their exposure to malpractice risk should a patient threaten violence to self or o

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Phillip M. Kleespies, PhD, ABPP, VA Medical Center and Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Ma .

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