Crisis Services:Effectiveness, Cost-Effectiveness, and Funding Strategies

Crisis Services:Effectiveness, Cost-Effectiveness, and Funding Strategies
Author: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 56
Release: 2019-11-23
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1794764275

Crisis Services are a continuum of services that are provided to individuals experiencing a psychiatric emergency. The primary goal of these services is to stabilize and improve psychological symptoms of distress and to engage individuals in an appropriate treatment service to address the problem that led to the crisis. Core crisis services include: 23-hour crisis stabilization/observation beds, short term crisis residential services and crisis stabilization, mobile crisis services, 24/7 crisis hotlines, warm lines, psychiatric advance directive statements, and peer crisis services. The research base on the effectiveness of crisis services is growing. There is evidence that crisis stabilization, community-based residential crisis care, and mobile crisis services can divert individuals from unnecessary hospitalizations and ensure the least restrictive treatment option is available to people experiencing behavioral health crises.

Crisis Services and Hospital Crises

Crisis Services and Hospital Crises
Author: Dylan Tomlinson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2018-12-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0429873069

First published in 1999. This text examines the impasse in the development of alternatives to hospitals, drawing on the experience of both crisis service users and providers, and evidence of the effectiveness of such services. The book concludes that crisis services are preferred by users, are usually more cost effective and often more clinically effective than acute admissions wards. It offers a number of policy suggestions to advance the role of crisis services, including monitoring, evaluation and development centres, or programmes being established on a national basis, and joint training between crisis service and hospitals.

Communicating in a Crisis

Communicating in a Crisis
Author: Robert DeMartino
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2009-02
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1437903487

A resource for public officials on the basic tenets of effective communications generally and on working with the news media specifically. Focuses on providing public officials with a brief orientation and perspective on the media and how they think and work, and on the public as the end-recipient of info.; concise presentations of techniques for responding to and cooperating with the media in conveying info. and delivering messages, before, during, and after a public health crisis; a practical guide to the tools of the trade of media relations and public communications; and strategies and tactics for addressing the probable opportunities and the possible challenges that are likely to arise as a consequence of such communication initiatives. Ill.

Reducing Risks for Mental Disorders

Reducing Risks for Mental Disorders
Author: Institute of Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 636
Release: 1994-01-01
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0309049393

The understanding of how to reduce risk factors for mental disorders has expanded remarkably as a result of recent scientific advances. This study, mandated by Congress, reviews those advances in the context of current research and provides a targeted definition of prevention and a conceptual framework that emphasizes risk reduction. Highlighting opportunities for and barriers to interventions, the book draws on successful models for the prevention of cardiovascular disease, injuries, and smoking. In addition, it reviews the risk factors associated with Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia, alcohol abuse and dependence, depressive disorders, and conduct disorders and evaluates current illustrative prevention programs. The models and examination provide a framework for the design, application, and evaluation of interventions intended to prevent mental disorders and the transfer of knowledge about prevention from research to clinical practice. The book presents a focused research agenda, with recommendations on how to develop effective intervention programs, create a cadre of prevention researchers, and improve coordination among federal agencies.

Crisis Education and Service Program Designs

Crisis Education and Service Program Designs
Author: Miracle R. Hoff
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2012-04-27
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1136828591

Crisis Education and Service Program Designs, is a guide for educators, administrators, and clinical trainers who may otherwise feel ill-prepared for the complex tasks of teaching, program development, supervision, and consultation in the crisis-care arena. The book provides a framework for more systematic inclusion of crisis content in health and human-service programs. Readers will find that this book fills the current gaps in knowledge and training, and fosters a more holistic practice by all human-service professionals. It shows how effective leadership, training, and timely support contribute to crisis workers’ effective practice with people in crisis.

The Crisis in Health Care

The Crisis in Health Care
Author: Dean C. Coddington
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Total Pages: 336
Release: 1990-09-26
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN:

Describes the potential for dramatic change in the health care industry and shows how physicians, hospitals, and health plan providers might plan and manage under conditions of extreme uncertainty. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Creating Excellence in Crisis Care

Creating Excellence in Crisis Care
Author: Lee Ann Hoff
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1998-08-14
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9780787940713

A Guide to Creating Successful Crisis Care Programs Produced in association with the Life Crisis Institute . . . This new and comprehensive book . . . has made an insightful mark in a challenging and . . . expanding field. Complementing Hoff's classic clinical text, People in Crisis, Creating Excellence in Crisis Care merits serious attention from all people reforming, training, and working in health care. --Antoon A. Leenaars, past president, American Association of Suicidology and the Canadian Association for Suicide Prevention In this essential resource the authors show how to prepare crisis care clinicians, practitioners, and volunteers to develop crisis counseling programs that will help raise the health of communities in a cost-effective way. Drawing on the best practices from the United States and Canada, the book is filled with vivid examples that clearly demonstrate how a holistic, interdisciplinary, and collaborative approach is the most practical response to the challenges of working with people in crisis. This comprehensive text offers a field-tested framework and systematic method for including crisis content--critical life events, violence, victimization, suicide, and psychiatric emergencies--in the formal training of health, social work and other human services professionals. The book also describes the criteria for developing crisis counseling programs and practice protocols that address the social, psychological, and medical needs of people in distress.

Happiness in Action

Happiness in Action
Author: Aaron Chen
Publisher: Aaron Chen
Total Pages: 104
Release: 2020-09-21
Genre: Education
ISBN:

At one point or another, every single one of us has or will have confronted the question: “So, what’s the purpose of my doing?” Writing in the perspective of high-school students, who have many years of untapped opportunities ahead of us, we think that starting to ask ourselves this question is of utmost importance. Now, there are many answers to this question, perhaps an infinite number of them. But in this short book, we propose the simple answer: to be happy. Of course, we aren’t the first to jump aboard this train of thought. Humanity has thought about happiness as an integral goal of life for thousands of years, and individuals and institutions alike have continued to pursue this discussion today, whether that be through debate, research, or policies. And to this, we are thankful. Our predecessors’ efforts have provided us -the next generation- with ample resources to put the pursuit of happiness into action on a societal scale, should we choose to do so. In light of this very mission to continue the historical momentum, we present this little book of ours -- to our peers, to aspiring young leaders of the future who might wish to consider prospects of a happiness-oriented society, and to any reader interested in this quick read.

Funding Strategies for Public Transportation

Funding Strategies for Public Transportation
Author: Price Waterhouse LLP.
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Total Pages: 100
Release: 1998
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 9780309062633

Addresses the current state of funding for public transportation in the United States, the various circumstances that have contributed to today's funding environment, and specific strategies that transit agencies are pursuing to identify new sources of funding. The report is presented in two parts -- a final report and a casebook.

Emergency Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, An Issue of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America E-Book

Emergency Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, An Issue of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America E-Book
Author: Vera Feuer
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2018-06-30
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0323612881

This issue of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics, guested edited by Dr. Vera Feuer, will cover an array of essential topics surrounding Emergency Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Articles include: Suicide screening in Pediatric Emergency Settings, Agitation management in pediatric emergencies, Child Life’s role in a Clinical Pathway for Behavioral Emergencies, The role of Security personnel and a model curriculum, Clinical pathways in ER, Social services and Behavioral Emergencies, Referrals-linkage, Telepsychiatry in Emergency Rooms, and Crisis services in community, among others.