Crisis Intervention in Mental Health
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"Kitty" ki...@nospamnoway.com
A colleague of mine has asked me for some help in brainstorming a subject for a presentation. She has been asked to do a presentation (I presume for interview) on: "The Limitations and Benefits of Mental Health Crisis Intervention Techniques".
I have done searches on google and other search engines but cannot find anything research based but not too complicated. Tends to be personal snapshots which is all I can give.
What would be useful would be a paper or debate on this issue and something describing the different types of intervention. Most articles, if found, tend to be personal snapshots as I say, or medical models and deal with a particular crisis, e.g. suicide, aggression, PTSD, etc.
She is a social worker in Adult MH.
Any pointers to sites for her please?
Or another ng you feel may be more appropriate?
Many thanks
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Kitty Tell me what you need, and I'll tell you how to get along without it.
"Pennyaline" nsmitch...@qwest.net
Actually, since she is only brainstorming at this point, the work done already is satisfactory for her purpose. All she needs to do, once the brainstorming is done, is narrow her topic. "Mental Health Crisis Intervention Techniques" is so broad as to be unapproachable, unless she's writing a serial. That doesn't even tackle the "Limitations and Benefits" of same!
So for right now, her topic is too big. Oh, but that would be only from the aspect of each and every mental health crisis. You're right to aim for different types of intervention!
She could gloss over the ***orted crises, and shoot straight to customary, clinically accepted interventions for, say, only the conditions most common in her situation. Then she could deliniate the benefits and limitations of each.
My greatest concern is that YOU are doing the research.
"Kitty" ki...@nospamnoway.com
Nah I just love a challenge. *g* She genuinely just came in and said "Can I pick your brain?" I asked her if she'd tried searches on the internet and she said she had. I said I'd have a go too. My thinking behind it being if I easily found references to what she wanted, give her the links and let her get on with it. However, I found the same problems as her, as stated above.
I don't think that asking for a bit of help from a mate constitutes her expecting me to do the research or my doing it! Just thought I could give her a leg up since she asked.
I agree the subject matter is too vast to give it any proper coverage, but aren't all wonderful titles for presentations? Sometimes they are looking for how you handle such a vast subject but I just wanted to point her in the direction of where she might find out about Crisis Intervention so that she can at least stand a chance of talking about it! _How_ she talks about it, argues it, presents it, etc. is all for her to do! Don't worry! <wink> Any help to appropriate links or info gratefully received.
Many thanks
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Kitty Tell me what you need, and I'll tell you how to get along without it.
kurtull ...@yahoo.com (Kurt Ullman)
Does she have access to Psych Lit. Did she try MedLine? CINHAL?
Of the three only ML is available w/o charge on the Internet. The other two (especailly PL) should be available at just about any collge in the area.
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"Kitty" ki...@nospamnoway.com
Thanks. I'll p*** this info on to her. This is the sort of thing I may be looking for. I hadn't thought of it myself and have not had access myself.
Many thanks.
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Kitty Tell me what you need, and I'll tell you how to get along without it.
"Andrew McGleish" amcgle...@netscape.net
Have you checked out the DoH website at http://www.doh.gov.uk I don't know if there is anything but you could be pleasantly surprised. The BMJ offers free access at www.bmj.com althoughobvioulsy addresses things from a medical perspective.
Andrew
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