Chapter 7.Crisis Intervention
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Crisis intervention began during World War II out of a necessity to treat soldiers exposed to battlefield conditions. In World War I, soldiers with combat fatigue or shell shock (now called traumatic stress disorder) were quickly evacuated from the front lines, without treatment, despite observations that early intervention might reduce psychiatric morbidity (Salmon 1919). These soldiers often regressed or even became chronically impaired. In World War II, soldiers were treated at or near the front lines with crisis intervention techniques and were quickly returned to their combat units (Glass 1954).
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