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When East Mississippi residents have a mental health crisis, law enforcement with special crisis intervention training are called on to help deescalate the situation and connect them with the help […]
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Lincoln County's mobile crisis team is fundamentally transforming how the community responds to mental health emergencies by bringing crisis intervention services directly to people in their communities rather than limiting
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Kids Helpline says a growing number of Australian young people are requiring immediate emergency help, with a concerning trend around crisis interventions.
AP – Experts wish more people spotted the signs earlier: feeling overwhelmed, not feeling “like yourself,” shifts in sleep, behaviour and mood. The United States (US) has a mental health problem, data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show. More young people, especially girls, are reporting poor mental health. And while the […]
Sending South Carolina police officers to a five-day crisis intervention course can be a drain on agencies’ manpower. But proponents say it’s worth the temporary hit to staffing and logistics,
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ON September 10, the world observes World Suicide Prevention Day, but suicide prevention should begin long before someone reaches an emergency department, crisis line or moment of immediate danger. The 2024 to 2026 theme, ‘Changing the Narrative on Suicide’, calls for conversations often avoided because of stigma and discomfort. Prevention cannot depend only on whetherRead More
Mental health crises are becoming an increasingly common part of law enforcement work, and officers are now receiving specialized training to handle those moments with care.
A new poll from the University of Michigan shows that nearly a third of older adults are unaware of the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline.
Oak Park continues to move toward an alternate response model for responding to emergency mental health calls and other non-criminal calls to 911.
Concerns around the overuse of policing to address mental health concerns have fueled growing recognition of the need for alternatives to traditional law enforcement responses to mental health crises. This has given rise to the implementation of interdisciplinary response models, including police-only responses and the widespread adoption of Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) Training, as well as co-responder models and mobile crisis response. However, the body of research on the effectiveness of these models is still emerging. Researchers and scholars have conventionally centered law enforcement in much of this work, whether aiming to understand how police address crises or comparing non-police or co-response models to police-led responses. Limitations in data availability, standardized language, measurement, and operational definitions—combined with a lack of clarity around partnerships—make it difficult to understand which models are being implemented and how they function across communities. Addressing these limitations may expose an opportunity to shift away from police as the default and to consider possibilities for crisis systems in which mental health support is provided without routine law enforcement involvement.
In this CME article, explore a 4-stage framework that detects suicide risk without ideation disclosure, guiding clinicians to spot crisis signs and act fast.
This can result in: Unnecessary arrest and use of force; Missed opportunities to connect individuals with needed treatment; and Inefficient use of scarce…
Experts wish more people spotted the signs earlier: feeling overwhelmed, not feeling “like yourself,” shifts in sleep, behavior and mood.
Mental health professionals say what constitutes a crisis varies from person to person, but there are some key signals that could indicate someone is struggling, and they can be subtle at first.
"My crisis might not be your crisis, but what we do know is that — however people define crisis — there is a change in how they're feeling, a change in how they're behaving," said Dr. Theresa Miskimen Rivera, president of the American Psychiatric Association.
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Dr Monique de Klerk is a senior counselling psychologist at the NWU's Centre for Health and Human Performance (CHHP)
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