title: Short-term intervention: a model of emergency services for times of crisis.
abstract: 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.
mesh_terms: 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