Crisis Intervention and Transformative Change: A Guidebook for Frontline Professionals

This book shows mental health providers how to envision crises as time-limited windows of opportunity--as tipping points clients can seize to achieve new insights and move in positive directions in their lives.

J. Scott Fraser, PhD, is a clinical psychologist with nearly 40 years of clinical practice, supervision, training, and academic teaching He has served as director of internship training, associate dean, and director of clinical training and as professor of clinical psychology in the doctoral program at the School of Professional Psychology at the Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. Before that, he was director of a crisis/brief therapy center in a large general hospital setting for 14 years. He has published many papers and books, including Unifying Effective Psychotherapies: Tracing the Process of Change (APA Books, 2018), and the DVD titled The Process of Change in Integrative Psychotherapy, which uses the process model described in this book.