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| PSYCHOLOGICAL CRISIS INTERVENTION |
Title:
Psychological Crisis Intervention
Editor:
Lidija Arambašić, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Contributors:
Ajduković, M., Ajduković, D., Arambašić, L., Hitrec, G., Vizek-Vidović, V.
Reviewers:
Vladimir Gruden, MD, Ph.D., Clinic for Psychological Medicine, University of Zagreb, Croatia,
Goranka Lugomer-Armano, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb, Croatia,
Anita Vulić-Prtorić, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Split, Croatia,
Antonija Žižak, Faculty of Rehabilitation and Education, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Year of publication: 2000
Language: Croatian (in 2001 translated in English)
ISBN: 953-6353-09-1 (Croatian version) 953-6353-13-X (English translation)
Format: 21 cm, 182 pages (Croatian) 196 pages (English translation); with illustrations
Price: € 15,00
Contents:
Foreword; Stressful and traumatic events and their consequences; Critical incidents and crisis as a psychological condition; Psychological crisis intervention; Psychological crisis intervention in the community, Critical incident stress debriefing: A specific group procedure within crisis intervention; Debriefing with individuals; Crisis intervention at school; References.
This is a first comprehensive publication devoted to crisis intervention in Croatia. Through seven articles written by Croatian prominent experts in the field of stress, trauma and crisis it provides a reader with both a theoretical knowledge and practical skills in this field. It is based on the five years experience in carrying through many individual and group crisis interventions with victims of homicide, traffic accidents, sexual assaults, shootings and (attempts of) suicides in schools, kindergartens, children's homes, centers for social welfare etc. The book is essential for psychologists, social workers, special educators, pedagogues who work in such institutions and who, in the course of their regular work, sometime have to provide care for children and adults after tragic events. The book is also a manual for all who finish a training for crisis intervention. It is the official textbook of the University of Zagreb, too. |
| Stress, Trauma, Recovery |
Title:
Stress, Trauma, Recovery
CROATIAN VERSION ONLY
Editor:
Jasenka Pregrad, Society for Psychological Assistance, Zagreb, Croatia
Contributors:
Ajduković, D., Ajduković, M., Arambašić, L., Hudina, B., Jusupović, D., Kulenović, A., Pregrad, J., Profaca, B., Starc, B., Subotić, Z., Vizek Vidović, V.
Reviewers:
Mirjana Krizmanić, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Dubravka Kocijan Hercigonja, M.D., Ph.D. University Hospital Dubrava, Zagreb, Croatia
Year of publication: 1996
Language: Croatian
ISBN: 953 - 6353 - 03 - 2
Format: 24 cm; 298 pages; with illustrations
Circulation: 1000 copies
Price: € 20.00
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Contents:
Foreword; Part one - Prerequisites for Efficient Helpers' Work and Identification of Problems: The Importance of Successful Communication for Helpers, Two Ways Communication and its Roles, Skills of Putting and Answering the Questions, Initiative Identification of Post Trauma Stress Reactions, Counselling; Part two - Kinds of difficulties and their treatment: Kinds of recovery treatment (cognitive, expressive and creative techniques, relaxation and energy control, BASIC Ph approach). , Trauma and its Treatment, Loss and Bereavement, Loss and Bereavement in Children and Family, Psychological Conditions of Life in Exile and Psychosocial Assistance, Process of Return - A Psychological Challenge; Part three - Program planing and evaluation consist of the following chapters: Planing, Programming and Implementation of Psychosocial Assistance, Strategic Planing, and Evaluation of Psychosocial Interventions.
The second part of the book deals with threats of living in the war and exile conditions and their effects on person's psychological well being (stress, trauma, loss, displacement and resettlement). It also discusses and elaborates various ways of psychological assistance to these persons. Those chapters that deal with treatment and support bring, apart from the theoretical points of view, many techniques and activities to reduce the difficulties. The effects of loss and consequently its treatment depend on client's age; therefore the developmental aspect of the problem is regarded.
A great and urgent need for programs that would give psychosocial support to individuals as well as to the community urged the need for planing and implementing a great number of psychosocial programs, that improved our professional and para professional work in governmental and non governmental organisations. The third chapter deals with knowledge and skills needed to make valid assessment of the needs and possibilities of the organisations and community to implement psychosocial assistance programs. We feel that the evaluation of psychosocial interventions are not used enough regarding the benefits it could bring in the field of theory as well as in its promotion. These are the reasons the book is concluded by this articles dedicated to these questions.
Generally speaking, the book is aimed to professionals and paraprofessionals working in the mental health field. It is meant to be used by helpers who assist to victims of trauma and traumatised communities. It is also recommended for any helper working with people who suffer consequences on severe life conditions or with persons who need to be supported in their growth for any reasons.
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| Trauma Recovery Training: Lessons Learned |
Title:
Trauma Recovery Training: Lessons Learned - OUT OF STOCK !!!
Editor:
Dean Ajduković, Ph.D. Department of Psychology, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Contributors:
Ager, A., Agger, I., Ajduković, D., Ajduković, M., Arambašić, L., Ayalon, O., Babović, N., Bang, S., Bucat, N., Creson, D., Derviškadić Jovanović, S., Despotović, M., Dyregrov, A., Endel, G., Frančišković, T., Gal, R., Hart, B., Heap, K., Joshi, P.T., Juul, J., Koberg Christiansen, L., Kostarova Unkovska, L., Ljubotina, D., Mandić, N., Mikuš-Kos, A., Mimica, J., Moro, LJ., Mulders, M., Ostojić, E., Pečnik, N., Pen, A., Pernar, M., Pojskić, M., Pregrad, J., Puk, G., Pupavac, V., Rasavac, Z., Senjak, M., Silver, S., Slodnjak, V., Stuvland, R., Urbanc, K., Wolters, W.H.G., Worthington, P., Žic, B., Žižak, A.
Reviewers:
William B. Schnapp, Ph.D., Mental Sciences Institute, The University of Texas, Houston, USA
Dubravka Kocijan Hercigonja, M.D., Ph.D., University Hospital Dubrava, Zagreb, Croatia
Lars Weisath, M.D., Department Group of Psychiatry, University of Oslo, Norway
Year of publication: 1997
Language: English
ISBN: 953-6353-07-5
Format: 24 cm; 443 pages; with illustrations
Circulation: 500 copies
Price: € 20,00
Contents:
Preface; Lessons Learned and Lessons We Failed to Learn; How I Happened to Meet Plato and Aristotle on Ban Jelačić Square; Challenges of Training for Trauma Recovery; Trauma Projects and the Future; Teaching Trauma Intervention - Lessons Learned; Balancing Skills' Transmission and Indigenous Understandings: A Conceptual Framework for Planning Support for Trauma Recovery; Evaluation Models for Trauma Training Projects: Importance, Development and Barriers; What We Learned and What Remains To Be Learned; Some Pitfalls for Effective Care-giving in a War Region; Colleagues in Distress: A Personal Perspective; Why We Decided To Learn How To Fish; Psychosocial Training Project in Croatia; The Limits of the Trauma Paradigm: Some Ruminations of an Outsider; Creative Methods Offered To Care-givers - To prevent or Deal with Secondary Traumatization; Multi-disciplinary Approach To Trauma Work; Transforming Conflict Through Trauma Recovery Training; Mental Health Care for Helpers: A Necessary Ingredient of Trauma Recovery Training and Assistance in War Zones; Basic Training - Complex Skills; The Influence of Psychosocial Programs During the War on Social Work Practice in Croatia; The EMDR-Humanitarian Assistance Program: Training in Psychosocial Trauma Relief; Non-governmental Organizations' Staff Perspective: An Evaluation of Psychosocial Projects and a Retrospective; Some Thoughts on the Training Relationship; How Mush Will We Risk?; Personal Experience in Training and Dealing With "Sensitive Issues"; Extremely Shocking Events: Counseling the Parents; What Can We Learn from Refugee Children for Child Mental Health Protection in a Non-war Situation?; One Model of Helping War-traumatized Children - Many Ways To Understand Them; Trauma Recovery Training: "Suncokret" Experiences; Counseling in Sarajevo - The Town Under Siege; Psychosocial Health Care for Women War Victims in Former Yugoslavia; Training for Psychosocial Work With Refugee and Displaced Women; Therapeutic Bodywork Under War Conditions; Co-therapy in the PTSD Group; What To Measure When Evaluating the Outcomes of the Trauma Treatment; The Education of Para-professionals; Interactive Games in Developing Communication in a Group of Adolescent Refugees; Traumatic Experience and Mediators of Psychopathology; The Experience of Men - Some of the Issues; List of Contributors
This book is the outcome of the international conference Trauma Recovery Training: Lessons Learned that was held in Zagreb, Croatia in July 1997, and hosted by the Society for Psychological Assistance (SPA), which had the programming responsibility for the major three-year long training project in the region.
The book contains an edited version of 38 contributions from the many more conference presentations. The articles display a wide range of perspectives, concepts and formats that emerged in response to the needs of care-providers for more focused and sophisticated knowledge and skills about trauma recovery. A wealth of knowledge, experiences and lessons learned are summarized, demonstrating creative and diverse work that has been done, and yet how unifying the theme is of helping to alleviate psychological and psychosocial aspects of human suffering. The authors also share their very intimate thoughts and feelings about the work they have been doing in the past years, and also present their critical views for the benefit of the future.
The structure of this volume starts with text presenting broad views that verge on the crossroads of psychology, psychiatry and anthropology. Some of the articles also have a philosophical flavor. Other authors debate professional challenges and controversies arising from local and international efforts in training and providing trauma assistance. Others underline controversies in designing and providing mental health services in war and post-war societies.
The contents then move on to lessons from training experiences that cut across fields, beyond any particular course. Rather, they present a critical view of the clinical practices, contents, formats, achievements and obstacles. The crossbreeding of local and international experiences, including controversies, addressed in a number of contributions add a unique value to this volume. Several authors introduce the evaluation issue that has too often generated tensions between the donors and the implementers.
Some authors present intimate reflections that are an important testimony of the honest, real-life dilemmas and concerns that a foreigner faces when becoming involved in trauma work in another cultural setting in a war zone. Others illustrate the doubts and pain felt by the care-providers themselves.
Then there are the articles that focus on lessons learned from particular training projects or specific treatment approaches. They dwell on a variety of individual, group, and social issues brought about by unseen breakthroughs in the awareness of the role of mental health in the populations affected by war and living in the war zone. In the latter part of the book, a number of articles summarize the achievements of service projects that had a strong training component.
All the articles provide a review of the past experiences and elaborate on the current issues in individual and community trauma recovery work. They also open up future directions. New professional concepts emerged, including heightened awareness of the role of the social context in understanding trauma, and the appropriateness of the psychosocial model in trauma treatment. |
| GROUP APPROACH TO PSYCHOLOGICAL WORK |
Title:
Group approach to psychosocial work
-CROATIAN VERSION ONLY
Author:
Marina Ajduković, Ph.D., School of Social Work, University of Zagreb
Reviewers:
Slavko Kljaić, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Vlasta Vizek-Vidović, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Antonija Žižak, Ph.D., Faculty of Rehabilitative Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Year of publication: 1997
Language: Croatian
ISBN: 953-6353-05-9
Format: 24 cm; 369 pages; illustrations
Circulation: 1000 copies
Price: € 19,00
OUT OF STOCK!
Contents:
Definition of group work; Types of groups in group work; Phases of development of group work; Planning group work; Assessment in treatment groups; First phase of group work; Specifics of group work with involuntary clients; Central phase of group work; Structuring work in a group; Levels of interventions in treatment groups; Specifics of group structure and processes; Role of a leader in group work; Closing phase; Unplanned closure; Planned closure; Evaluation of group work; Ethical guidelines for group leaders: Literature.
This volume has all that one can hope to get from the first book on group work published in a particular society. It provides theoretical framework of the group approach, describes principles of successful leading groups, and a variety of areas in which group work can be applied within the helping professions. The contents is enriched with colorful descriptions from the author's years of experiences in applying the group approach.
In the first part of the book the group approach in the helping professions is defined along with its basic principles. The essential differences between group psychotherapy and group work are explained, as well as differences between the individual and group approaches in working with the people. Then there is an extensive classification of groups used in the helping process, and phases of the group process.
In the second part of the book, the group process is described: from planning, needs assessment of potential members, starting groups, techniques for achieving individual and group goals, and closing the group work. Particular attention is focused on the skills needed by group leaders, that are also clearly founded in the overall system of humanistic values.
In the third part, the methodology of evaluating the process and effects of group work is described. Again, the theoretical models for evaluating psychosocial work are related to practical guidelines and suggestions how to implement effective evaluation.
This book is essential for all care-providers that plan to use group work or that already run groups while providing psychosocial assistance. A special value of this book is that it bridges the usual differences between professions. It is equally important for psychologists, social workers, special educators and other professionals that wish to enrich their services.
In 1997 this book became the official textbook of the University of Zagreb. The author was awarded the same year the prestigious Croatian Psychological Association's "Ramiro Bujas Award" for the best professional publication in the period of two years. English translation is currently being prepared.
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| VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMAN IN FAMILY |
Title:
Violence Against Woman in Family
-CROATIAN VERSION ONLY
Editors:
Marina Ajduković, Ph.D., School of Social Work, University of Zagreb
Gordana Pavleković, Ph.D., Faculty of Medicine, University of Zagreb
Contributors:
Ajduković, M., Cajner-Mraović, I., Jureša, V., Mamula, M., Marunica, M., Matijević-Vrsaljko, Lj., Pantić, Z., Pavleković, G., Pečnik, N., Tölle, N.
Reviewers:
Irena Bezić, M.A., Marina Kuzman, M.D. Ph.D., Maja Danon, Ph.D.
Language: Croatian
ISBN: 953-6353-11-3
Format: 24 cm; 229 pages
Year of publication: 2000
Price: € 16,00
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| BETRAYED: ABUSED CHILDREN ARE RESPONSIBILITY OF ALL OF US |
Title:
Betrayed: Abused Children are Responsibility of All of Us
- CROATIAN VERSION ONLY
Author:
Kari Killen, Ph.D., Norwegian Institute for Children Care Research
Reviewers:
Marina Ajduković, Ph.D., School of Social Work, University of Zagreb
Mira Alinčić, Ph.D., Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb
Slavko Kljaić, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, University of Zagreb
Translation:
Lidija Arambašić, Ph.D.
Vlasta Vizek-Vidović, Ph.D.
Language: Croatian
ISBN: 953-6353-10-5
Year of publication: 2001
Format: 24 cm; 424 pages
Price: € 24,00 |
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