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Crisis Counseling

By: Richard K. James & Rick A. Myer
In: Encyclopedia of Counseling
Edited by: Frederick T. L. Leong
Subject:General Counseling & Psychotherapy, Counseling Psychology

There are many definitions of what constitutes a crisis sufficient to bring a person to counseling. Richard K. James and Burl E. Gilliland defined a crisis as the [Page 545]perception of an event or situation as intolerable and one that exceeds ...

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  James, R. & Myer, R. (2008). Crisis counseling. In F. T. Leong (Ed.), Encyclopedia of counseling (Vol. 1, pp. 545-548). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. doi: 10.4135/9781412963978.n173
  
  James, Richard K. and Rick A. Myer. "Crisis Counseling." In Encyclopedia of Counseling, edited by Frederick T. Leong, 545-548. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2008. doi: 10.4135/9781412963978.n173.
  
  James, R & Myer, R 2008, 'Crisis counseling', in Leong, FT (ed.), Encyclopedia of counseling, SAGE Publications, Inc., Thousand Oaks, CA, pp. 545-548, viewed 5 December 2020, doi: 10.4135/9781412963978.n173.
  
  James, Richard K. and Rick A. Myer. "Crisis Counseling." Encyclopedia of Counseling. Ed. Frederick T. Leong. Vol. 1. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2008. 545-548. SAGE Knowledge. Web. 5 Dec. 2020, doi: 10.4135/9781412963978.n173.
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