Psychotechnics of crisis counseling: models, algorithms, exercises, examples. Svitlana Kalishchuk

Svitlana Kalishchuk's textbook "Psychotechnics of Crisis Counseling: Models, Algorithms, Exercises, Examples" is a book that in modern realities is destined to be in demand and popular among students and psychologists. The Russian-Ukrainian war forced psychologists to overcome challenges that their predecessors did not have to face. Traumatic crises caused by the war and its consequences were added to age-related, existential, professional and other crises expected throughout human life. Therefore, the materials collected in this textbook will be useful not only to students in the process of professional training, but also to practicing psychologists - for self-education, expanding professional opportunities and increasing the level of professional confidence.

Svitlana Kalishchuk's textbook "Psychotechnics of Crisis Counseling: Models, Algorithms, Exercises, Examples" was created in accordance with the working program of the academic discipline "Crisis Counseling Workshop" for the training of psychologists. The manual reveals the role and place of crisis counseling in the general system of psychological influence. The author analyzes models of crisis psychological assistance in basic approaches: informational, problem-oriented, solution-oriented, personality-oriented and meaning-oriented. The manual examines in detail the principles and strategies of crisis intervention, conditions, factors and methods of crisis assistance, specific techniques of psychological support.

The book includes 50 applied models of crisis counseling, 40 algorithms of psychologist's actions regarding clients' crisis requests, over 150 exercises and 100 examples that reveal the specifics and possibilities of crisis psychological counseling.

The manual will be useful for psychology students, graduate students, teachers, and all professionals who provide psychological assistance in crisis situations.