"This book clearly and creatively lays out effective techniques for rapidly responding to a wide variety of real world crises. Empirically solid and clinically astute, this work is without peer as a guide to providing urgent care. When time is of the essence, every practitioner will want to have Kleespies' book within arm's reach."
-John Monahan, PhD, Doherty Professor of Law, University of Virginia

"This book provides an extraordinarily well-stocked workroom of tools necessary for today's clinician. It begins with an awareness of the appalling deficiency in graduate clinical training to ready mental health clinicians to deal with a wide and anxiety-provoking range of psychiatric crises. It succeeds admirably in providing the essential knowledge and competencies to make the clinician an effective interventionist. Moreover, it helps clinicians contain and manage both their affect and their exposure to malpractice risk should a patient threaten violence to self or others. With these tools clinicians can build structures capable of weathering any and all storms. This book is timely and strategic; it should be required reading for both the novice and experienced professional."
-Alan L. Berman, PhD, Executive Director, American Association of Suicidology