InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com) C 2009 Wiley Periodicals‚ Inc. DOI: 10.1002/pits.20370 CRISIS COUNSELING: AN OVERVIEW JONATHAN SANDOVAL‚ AMY NICOLE SCOTT‚ AND IRENE PADILLA University of the Pacific Psychologists working in schools are often the first contacts for children experiencing a potentially traumatizing event or change in status. This article reviews basic concepts in crisis counseling and describes the components of psychological first aid. This form of counseling must be
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Current European Debt Crisis Since 2010 fears of a sovereign debt crisis also known as the “Euro Crisis” has developed in Europe having direct impact on countries such as Greece‚ Portugal‚ Ireland and more recently European giants Spain‚ Italy‚ and France. What is on hand for these countries is a serious economic crisis that could involve widespread defaults and or significant rises in inflation caused by toxic short-term loans. The surreal thought of an entire country defaulting‚ is becoming more
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and ideas I have learned more about while reading this assignment‚ was the intervention on crisis situations. A crisis situation can be a very stressful and challenging situation. When there is a crisis‚ many decisions‚ interventions‚ and behaviors need to be addressed; sometimes very quickly. Depending on the crisis‚ it can be extremely tense or very serious. Having a knowledge base to handle all crisis situations is very critical and could actually make a difference in a positive or negative way
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Background on Greece’s Debt Crisis “You cannot spend more than (what) you earn…you should not borrow more than (what) you can afford.” This‚ according to an editorial published by the Greek newspaper Kathimerini‚ may be the lesson Greeks are now learning the hard way.1 Unrestrained spending of successive Greek governments over a long period may have driven the country’s budget and current account deficits.2 Greece borrowed heavily from international capital markets to finance public sector jobs‚
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GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS A CHALLENGE TO ACCOUNTING PROFESSION By SHEHU USMAN HASSAN Department of Accounting Ahmadu Bello University‚ Zaria. 08067766435‚ 08057777085 Shehu.hassanus.usman@gmail.com A paper presented at International Conference with the theme: Global Financial Crises and African Quest for Development‚ Faculty of Administration‚ Ahmadu Bello University‚ Zaria. Kongo Conference Hotel‚ Zaria. Kaduna State‚ Nigeria. JULY 20th - 22th ‚ 2010 Abstract Accounting practices
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The Iranian Hostage Crisis The Iranian Hostage Crisis was a horrific event in which many American were captured and held hostage in the Iranian American embassy. In America‚ this was met with shock; spurring newfound hatred of Iranians. In the book Funny in Farsi‚ the author and her family‚ Iranian immigrants living in Southern California‚ are subjected to the scrutiny and prejudice of the people around them for that reason. At the end of the 1970’s‚ a new wave ushered America into a new
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THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS The “Caribbean crisis‚” as it was known in the former Soviet Union‚ was attributed to the Kennedy administration’s unwillingness to accept the status quo in Cuba. Unalterably opposed to Fidel Castro‚ the administration organized an ill-fated invasion of Cuba by anti-Castro refugees in April 1961. After the “Bay of Pigs” fiasco‚ the Central Intelligence Agency tried to assassinate Castro and sponsored covert operations against Cuba‚ the Department of State organized
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Impact of Global Financial Crisis on Indian Economy By S. Lalitha Mani Lecturer in Commerce A.Siva Kumar Head of Department in Commerce Dr. S.N.S. Rajalakshmi College of Arts and Science Saravanampatti‚ Coimbatore-641006 INTRODUCTION:- The financial crisis has been erupted in a comprehensive manner on Wall Street; there was some premature triumphalism among Indian policymakers and media persons. It has been argued that India would be relatively immune to this crisis‚ because of the "strong fundamentals"
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period 1 The Cuban missile crisis showed that America was on the “Eve of Destruction.” What “Eve of Destruction” means is how America was at the edge of something horrible/ terrifying. For example‚ in the song‚ it states‚ “If the button is pushed‚ there’s no running away” showing that there was no solution to a disaster. This relates to the Cuban missile crisis because in both situations weapons were in place in which something dreadful could
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The 2008–2012 Icelandic financial crisis is a major economic and political crisis in Iceland that involved the collapse of all three of the country’s major commercial banks following their difficulties in refinancing their short-term debt and a run on deposits in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Relative to the size of its economy‚ Iceland’s banking collapse is the largest suffered by any country in economic history. The financial crisis had serious consequences for the Icelandic economy
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