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Crisis Intervention in Child Abuse and Neglect
Author(s):   U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Gentry, C. E.
Year Published:  1994
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  1. H. J. Parad and L. G. Parad, eds., Crisis Intervention Book 2: The Practitioner's Sourcebook for Brief Therapy (Milwaukee: Family Service America, 1990), 3-4.

  2. R. Borgman, M. Edmunds, and R. A. MacDicken, Crisis Intervention: A Manual for Child Protective Workers, U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect (Washington, DC: 1979), 8.

  3. Parad and Parad, eds., Crisis Intervention Book 2, 5-8.

  4. Ibid, 8.

  5. Borgman, Edmunds, and MacDicken, Crisis Intervention, 10-12.

  6. S. L. Dixon and R. G. Sands, "Identity and the Experience of Crisis," Social Casework: The Journal of Contemporary Social Work 64 (April 1983), 224.

  7. M. Blugerman, "Contributions of Gestalt Theory to Social Work Treatment," in F. J. Turner, ed., Social Work Treatment: Interlocking Theoretical Approaches (New York: The Free Press, 1986), 78.

  8. L. Rapoport, "Crisis Intervention as a Mode of Brief Treatment," in R. W. Roberts and R. H. Nee, eds., Theories of Social Casework (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970), 297-298.

  9. D. A. Puryear, Helping People in Crisis (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1979), 51-52.

  10. S. L. Dixon, Working With People in Crisis, 2nd ed. (Columbia, OH: Merrill, 1987).

  11. Puryear, Helping People in Crisis, 51-52.

  12. Ibid, 60.

  13. Ibid, 87.

  14. Dixon, Working With People in Crisis, 134.

  15. Puryear, Helping People in Crisis, 60.

  16. D. DePanfilis and M. K. Salus, Child Protective Services: A Guide for Caseworkers U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, DC: 1992), 19.

  17. J. L. Jenkins, M. K. Salus, and G. L. Schultze, Child Protective Services: A Guide for Workers. U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect (Washington, DC: 1979), 7.

  18. C. Towle, Common Human Needs (New York: National Association of Social Workers, 1965), 162-163.

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  22. Borgman, Edmunds, and MacDicken, Crisis Intervention.

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  25. Towle, Common Human Needs, 163.

  26. C. E. Gentry, "Treatment of Child Physical Abuse," in C. M. Mouzakitis and R. Varghese, eds., Social Work Treatment with Abused and Neglected Children (Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas, 1985), 249,262; and R. J. Gelles, "Abandon Reunification Goal for Abusive Families and Replace with Child Protection," The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter 8 (June 1992): 1, 6.

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  29. Parad and Parad, eds., Crisis Intervention Book 2, 47

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