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Chapter 27: Crisis Intervention with Individual and Groups: Frameworks to Guide Social Workers
Chapter 28: Fundamentals of Brief Treatment
Chapter 91: Play Therapy with Children in Crisis
Chapter 136: Solution-focused Brief Therapy Interventions for Students at Risk to Drop Out /

Social Workers' Desk Reference by Kevin Corcoran (Editor-In-Chief); Albert R. Roberts (Editor-In-Chief)
Publication Date: 2015-05-18
Social work practitioners, educators, students, and other allied professionals can utilize the Social Workers' Desk Reference to gain interdisciplinary and interprofessional education, practice, and research.
Encyclopedia of Social Work (Harrisburg, Lancaster)
Call Number: HV12 .E53 2008 v.1
Has articles on crisis interventions; brief therapies, and other relevant topics to this class.