Crisis intervention involves
a. skilled management of an ongoing, long-term psychological problem.
b. skilled management of a psychological emergency.
c. the use of partial hospitalization instead of institutionalization.
d. the use of halfway houses rather than hospitalization.
ANSWER: b
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