ABSTRACT
This chapter describes a conceptual model of psychosocial intervention for displaced workers. Company management recognizes the need for an outside organization to provide Employee Assistance Program services as stress counseling and group-level interventions. Popular psychology books may also have familiarized the public with talking about intimate problems and with the kinds of psychological explanations provided by media-oriented helping professionals. Mental health services are often introduced into a community when an event such as a plant closing, disaster, or other larger-scale crisis arises. Some of these community-based crisis model programs have been only moderately successful because of low utilization of services. The initial approach to the affected community may be a preventive mode, such as outreach to victims. Group counseling is the primary intervention utilized in the program. The groups are task-oriented with a focus on specific content areas.
