Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Crisis theory and practice : introduction and overview -- Understanding people in crisis -- Identifying people at risk -- Helping people in crisis -- Family and social network strategies during crisis -- Stress and change during life passages -- Threats to health status and self-image -- Threats to occupational and residential security -- Suicide and other self-destructive behavior : understanding and assessment -- Helping self-destructive people and survivors of suicide -- The crisis of victimization by violence -- The violent or abusive person : individual and sociocultural factors -- Violence and crisis from disaster.