Crisis Intervention
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

[Can psychiatric acute teams reduce acute admissions to psychiatric wards?]

6 Oct 2009 BACKGROUND: Treatment by psychiatric acute teams - as an alternative to admission in psychiatric acute wards - has been introduced in Norway, based on positive experience in other countries. The effect of establishing such acute teams in Norway has ... Read more...

[A community short-term crisis unit does not reduce acute admissions to psychiatric wards]

6 Oct 2009 BACKGROUND: Due to long-term capacity problems in the psychiatric acute ward, we tried to canalise acute admissions due to life crises (and not serious mental disease) to a new short-term in-patient crisis unit. Our hypothesis was that the opening ... Read more...

Methodological challenges in evaluating the effectiveness of women's crisis houses compared with psychiatric wards: findings from a pilot patient preference RCT.

29 Sep 2009 There are several methodological difficulties to address when evaluating acute psychiatric services. This study explored potential methods in evaluating the effectiveness of women's crisis houses compared with psychiatric wards in a pilot patient ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Crisis Intervention'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• New models of collaboration between criminal justice and mental health systems. 30 Oct 2009
• [Can psychiatric acute teams reduce acute admissions to psychiatric wards?] 6 Oct 2009
• [A community short-term crisis unit does not reduce acute admissions to psychiatric wards] 6 Oct 2009
• [More and better evaluations in health care] 6 Oct 2009
• To prevent post-traumatic stress disorder, is it helpful to provide psychotherapy to everyone who has been exposed to a significant trauma? 29 Sep 2009
• Methodological challenges in evaluating the effectiveness of women's crisis houses compared with psychiatric wards: findings from a pilot patient preference RCT. 29 Sep 2009
• Clinical and economic ramifications of switching antipsychotics in the treatment of schizophrenia. 31 Aug 2009
• Minor injury, major expense: the burden of preinjury alcohol intake on emergency department assessment. 20 Aug 2009
• Development of mental health first aid guidelines for panic attacks: a Delphi study. 8 Aug 2009
• Supporting staff recovery and reintegration after a critical incident resulting in infant death. 30 Jul 2009
• The effects of crisis plans for patients with psychotic and bipolar disorders: a randomised controlled trial. 7 Jul 2009
• Conflict, crisis, and abuse in Dharavi, Mumbai: experiences from six years at a centre for vulnerable women and children. 5 Jul 2009
• Crisis and triage clinicians' attitudes toward working with people with personality disorder. 29 Jun 2009
• Left behind after suicide. People bereaved by a suicide often get less support because it's hard for them to reach out--and because others are unsure how to help. 29 Jun 2009
• [Community-based crisis home programme. Cost-efficient alternative to psychiatric hospitalization.] 29 Jun 2009
• Alternatives to admission for children and adolescents: providing intensive mental healthcare services at home and in communities: what works? 29 Jun 2009
• [Managing the suicidal crisis] 30 May 2009
• Crisis intervention team training and special weapons and tactics callouts in an urban police department. 30 May 2009
• Establishing best practice in pediatric emergency mental health: a prospective study examining clinical characteristics. 30 May 2009
• Anomalous subjective experience and psychosis risk in young depressed patients. 14 May 2009

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Technical information about 'Crisis Intervention'

Definition: Brief therapeutic approach which is ameliorative rather than curative of acute psychiatric emergencies. Used in contexts such as emergency rooms of psychiatric or general hospitals, or in the home or place of crisis occurrence, this treatment approach focuses on interpersonal and intrapsychic factors and environmental modification. (APA Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms, 7th ed)

Descriptor UI: D003419

Alternative terms: Crisis Intervention; Crisis Interventions; Intervention, Crisis; Interventions, Crisis; Critical Incident Stress Debriefing;

Related Mesh Headings: Hotlines;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; education; history; instrumentation; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; methods; organization & administration; standards; trends; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: F04.754.252;

History Note: 70

Technical Notes: a psychother technique