Crisis and Trauma: Developmental-Ecological Intervention

This text introduces students to the fundamental concepts of crisis theory and practice, and provides models for single-session intervention and ongoing crisis counseling. Students learn to incorporate assessment into intervention, using the unique ABCDE model, Affective responses, Behavioral responses, Cognitive responses, Developmental assessment, Ecological assessment. Students learn to use this holistic framework for viewing individual responses to crisis events such as sexual assault, domestic violence, substance abuse, and death.

This unique ABCDE model for assessing crisis reactions expands the classic ABC model to incorporate a developmental-ecological perspective. This perspective draws on both developmental and systems theory to provide a holistic and integrated framework for viewing individual responses to crisis events.