Short-term intervention: a model of emergency services for times of crisis.
This paper approaches 'crisis' in system terms. The analysis is applied broadly to organization and community systems, as well as to personality and small-group systems. Based primarily on current developments in Israel, it is written from the viewpoint of a community social worker. Using public health theory, the author develops a model of three distinct types of social service systems: Restorative (traditional), Curative (crisis-intervention in the literature of therapy), and Preventive. He goes on to elaborate both the general characteristics of these service systems and the particular emergency-oriented contribution each can make in times of community-wide crisis.
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D003130:Combat Disorders / Q000628:therapy; D003156:Community Mental Health Services; D003419:Crisis Intervention; D004190:Disasters; D006801:Humans; D007557:Israel; D008016:Life Change Events; D011316:Preventive Psychiatry; D013315:Stress, Psychological