Community-based Mental Health Crisis Services

Published October 2019

The Psychiatric Services Editor’s Choice provides essential curated collections from recent issues of Psychiatric Services.  Each month, Editor Lisa Dixon and the Early Career Psychiatrist Advisory Committee offer a curated collection from the rich resource of articles published in the journal. Updates will focus on one area, summarizing for the researcher, clinician, and policy analyst the latest information and seminal research with links to specific content from Psychiatric Services.

An estimated two million individuals with serious mental illness cycle through U.S. jails every year. People with mental illness may experience a delay or interruption in receiving mental health care while in jail or prison and may be better served by community mental health programs. Justice diversion programs provide a critical strategy to limit this population’s involvement in the criminal justice system and shift the focus to improving mental health. This Editor’s Choice collection starts with an article outlining the sequential intercept model, which has served as a nationwide framework for justice diversion. Subsequent articles are organized by intercept points as described in the model. The collection concludes with an article that specifically addresses young adults with first-episode psychosis, because that population may be at high risk of criminal justice involvement.

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Correlates of Length of Stay and Boarding in Florida Emergency Departments for Patients With Psychiatric Diagnoses
Joseph L. Smith, M.P.H., Alessandro S. De Nadai, M.A., Eric A. Storch, Ph.D., Barbara Langland-Orban, Ph.D., Etienne Pracht, Ph.D., John Petrila, J.D., LL.M.
2016, Volume 67, Issue 11, pp. 1169–1174

Emergency Department Boarding: Nowhere Else to Go
Marvin S. Swartz, M.D.
2016, Volume 67, Issue 11, p. 1163

Alternatives to the Emergency Department
Margaret E. Balfour, M.D., Ph.D., Chris A. Carson, M.D., M.B.A., and Robert Williamson, M.D.
2017, Volume 68, Issue 3, p. 306

Trainer Fidelity as a Predictor of Crisis Counselors’ Behaviors With Callers Who Express Suicidal Thoughts
Wendi F. Cross, Ph.D., Tian Chen, Ph.D., Karen Schmeelk-Cone, Ph.D., Xin Tu, Ph.D., Marjorie Kleinman, M.S., Madelyn S. Gould, Ph.D., M.P.H.
2017, Volume 68, Issue 10, pp. 1083–1087

Increases in Demand for Crisis and Other Suicide Prevention Services After a Celebrity Suicide
Rajeev Ramchand, Ph.D., Elan Cohen, M.S., John Draper, Ph.D., Michael Schoenbaum, Ph.D., Dan Reidenberg, Psy.D., Lisa Colpe, Ph.D., M.P.H., Jerry Reed, Ph.D., Jane Pearson, Ph.D.
2019, Volume 70, Issue 8, pp. 728–731

A National Survey of Mobile Crisis Services and Their Evaluation
Jeffrey L. Geller, M.D., M.P.H., William H. Fisher, Ph.D., Melissa McDermeit, M.S.W.
1995, Volume 46, Issue 9, pp. 893–897

Evaluation of a Mobile Crisis Program: Effectiveness, Efficiency, and Consumer Satisfaction
Roger L. Scott, L.C.S.W.
2000, Volume 51, Issue 9, pp. 1153–1156

Assessing the Impact of Community-Based Mobile Crisis Services on Preventing Hospitalization
Shenyang Guo, Ph.D., David E. Biegel, Ph.D., Jeffrey A. Johnsen, Ph.D., and Hayne Dyches, Ph.D.
2001, Volume 52, Issue 2, pp. 223–228

Impact of Mobile Crisis Services on Emergency Department Use Among Youths With Behavioral Health Service Needs
Michael Fendrich, Ph.D., Melissa Ives, M.S.W., Brenda Kurz, Ph.D., Jessica Becker, M.S.W., Jeffrey Vanderploeg, Ph.D., Christopher Bory, Psy.D., Hsiu-Ju Lin, Ph.D., Robert Plant, Ph.D.
2019, Volume 70, Issue 10, pp. 881–887

A Randomized Trial of Short-Term Acute Residential Treatment for Veterans
William B. Hawthorne, Ph.D., Elizabeth E. Green, Ph.D., Todd Gilmer, Ph.D., Piedad Garcia, Ed.D., Richard L. Hough, Ph.D., Martin Lee, Ph.D., Linda Hammond, Ph.D., and James B. Lohr, M.D.
2005, Volume 56, Issue 11, pp. 1379–1386

Clinical and Cost-Effectiveness of Acute and Subacute Residential Mental Health Services: A Systematic Review
Kerry A. Thomas, B.Sc.(Psych.), B.Soc.Sc.(Psych.), and Debra Rickwood, Ph.D., B.A.
2013, Volume 64, Issue 11, pp. 1140–1149

The Effectiveness of a Peer-Staffed Crisis Respite Program as an Alternative to Hospitalization
Ellen E. Bouchery, M.S., Michael Barna, M.A., Elizabeth Babalola, M.P.H., Daniel Friend, M.S., Jonathan D. Brown, Ph.D., Crystal Blyler, Ph.D., Henry T. Ireys, Ph.D.
2018, Volume 69, Issue 10, pp. 1069–1074

The Police-Based Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) Model: I. Effects on Officers’ Knowledge, Attitudes, and Skills
Michael T. Compton, M.D., M.P.H., Roger Bakeman, Ph.D., Beth Broussard, M.P.H., Dana Hankerson-Dyson, M.P.A., M.P.H., Letheshia Husbands, B.A., Shaily Krishan, M.P.H., Tarianna Stewart-Hutto, M.S., Barbara M. D’Orio, M.D., M.P.A., Janet R. Oliva, Ph.D., Nancy J. Thompson, Ph.D., M.P.H., and Amy C. Watson, Ph.D.
2014, Volume 65, Issue 4, pp. 517–522

The Police-Based Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) Model: II. Effects on Level of Force and Resolution, Referral, and Arrest
Michael T. Compton, M.D., M.P.H., Roger Bakeman, Ph.D., Beth Broussard, M.P.H., Dana Hankerson-Dyson, M.P.A., M.P.H., Letheshia Husbands, B.A., Shaily Krishan, M.P.H., Tarianna Stewart-Hutto, M.S., Barbara M. D’Orio, M.D., M.P.A., Janet R. Oliva, Ph.D., Nancy J. Thompson, Ph.D., M.P.H., and Amy C. Watson, Ph.D.
2014, Volume 65, Issue 4, pp. 523–529

The Tucson Mental Health Investigative Support Team (MHIST) Model: A Preventive Approach to Crisis and Public Safety
Margaret E. Balfour, M.D., Ph.D., Jason M. Winsky, B.A., and Jill M. Isely, B.A.
2017, Volume 68, Issue 2, pp. 211–212

Specialized Police-Based Mental Health Crisis Response: The First 10 Years of Colorado’s Crisis Intervention Team Implementation
Hari-Mandir K. Khalsa, M.S., Attila C. Denes, M.B.A., Diane M. Pasini-Hill, M.A., Jeffrey C. Santelli, M.S., Ross J. Baldessarini, M.D.
2018, Volume 69, Issue 2, pp. 239–241

 

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