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This 10 page paper reviews Lee Ann Hoff's book People in Crisis. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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react to a crisis, and how to help them through it. This paper reviews the book and answers the question of how Hoff defines stress. Stress and Crisis
Hoff makes it clear that crisis is very different from stress, predicament, emergency and mental or emotional disturbance (Hoff, 2001). A predicament is a situation that is "unpleasant, dangerous
or embarrassing" (Hoff, 2001, p. 4). An emergency is "an unforeseen combination of circumstances that calls for immediate action, often with life-or-death implications" (Hoff, 2001, p. 4). Mental
and emotional upsets may be distressing to witness and difficult for the sufferer to comprehend, but they do not constitute a crisis. Finally, stress and crisis are not the
same, though prolonged, unrelieved stress can result in a crisis. Stress is also described as tension, pressure or strain (Hoff, 2001). Stress is, to a certain degree, predictable:
we know if we are facing a test, a doctors visit, an interview or audition, or a conversation that wed rather not have. Stress is something were all
familiar with, because we live with it on a daily basis. It can even be made to work to our advantage at times. For example, an actor waiting
in the wings for his cue may be experiencing the stress we call "stage fright," but if he can channel that stress into his performance, his energy will be higher,
he will seem more "alive" and his performance will be better. So stress is not always a bad thing. But it can be on-going. A crisis, however, is
of short duration and is self-limiting (Hoff, 2001, p. 4). It is, in Hoffs words, "an acute emotional upset arising from situational, developmental, or sociological sources and resulting in
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