Improving the Emergency Response to Mental Health Crises

The Crisis Intervention Team Model of Police Response to Mental Health Crises: A Primer for Mental Health Practitioners.

As persons with mental illnesses and law enforcement become increasingly entangled, the collaboration of police and mental health service providers has become critical to appropriately serving the needs of individuals experiencing mental health crises. This article introduces the Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) Model as a collaborative approach to safely and effectively address the needs of pers...

Global health response to crises needs reform.

Emergency health care use and follow-up among sociodemographic groups of children who visit emergency departments for mental health crises.

BACKGROUND Previous studies of differences in mental health care associated with children's sociodemographic status have focused on access to community care. We examined differences associated with visits to the emergency department. METHODS We conducted a 6-year population-based cohort analysis using administrative databases of visits (n = 30,656) by children aged less than 18 years (n = 20,...

Mental Health Emergency Committee

The Register of Full-Time Social Workers in Mental Health contains, at the time of writing, 217 names; of the workers so registered 96 hold the Certificate of the London School of Economics Mental Health Course, and the majority of the others have had training and experience as members of the staffs of Voluntary Associations for Mental Welfare. Approximately 25 workers have notified that they a...

“Hitting the wall”: Lived experiences of mental health crises

BACKGROUND As Norway moves toward the provision of home-based crisis response, knowledge is needed about understandings of mental health crisis and effective ways of addressing crises within the home. OBJECTIVE To elicit and learn from service users' experiences about the subjective meanings of crisis and what kind of help will be most effective in resolving mental health crises. THEORETICAL...