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Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention 2:1-22 (2002)
© 2002 Oxford University Press

Assessment, Crisis Intervention, and Trauma Treatment: The Integrative ACT Intervention Model

   Albert R. Roberts, PhD

From the Interdisciplinary Program in Criminal Justice Rutgers University

Contact author: Albert R. Roberts, PhD, Interdisciplinary Program in Criminal Justice, Rutgers University, Livingston College Campus, Lucy Stone Hall B wing-261, 54 Joyce Kilmer Avenue, Piscataway, NJ 08824. E-mail: arroberts{at}worldnet.att.net

This article presents a conceptual three-stage framework and intervention model that should be useful in helping mental health professionals provide acute crisis and trauma treatment services. The ACT model stands for Assessment, Crisis Intervention, and Trauma Treatment. This new model may be thought of as a sequential set of assessments and intervention strategies. The ACT intervention model integrates various assessment and triage protocols with the seven-stage crisis intervention model, and the ten-step acute traumatic stress management protocol. In addition, this article introduces and briefly highlights the other eight narrative, theoretical, and empirically based papers in this issue that focus on mental health and crisis-oriented intervention strategies implemented within 1 month after the September 11, 2001, terroristic mass disaster at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

KEY WORDS: assessment, triage, crisis assessment, crisis intervention, trauma treatment




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