Teaching Crisis Intervention

The purpose of this article is to explore ways of aiding students in their learning how to become effective crisis intervention specialists by helping them understand their responses to crisis, and through the development of their professional use of self. New police cadets and human service workers alike bring with them the beliefs and emotions learned from personal histories that may hinder or help their ability to become effective crisis workers. The article helps those who teach crisis intervention to engage students in various experiential exercises that maximize their strengths and minimize their weaknesses

Transnational Social Work: Using a Wraparound Model

In this article, we explore the wraparound approach of service delivery as a model for transnational social work. The wraparound model, used primarily within community-based children\u27s mental health services and child protection initiatives, has been effective when planning services for clients and their families with complicated needs, whose care has to be provided within a multiple provider context. Most social work is delivered nationally or internationally rather than trans-nationally. In the article we outline how the model could be structured to meet the particular needs of transmigrants, including the involvement of NGOs and INGOs, and identify key obstacles and limitations