s International: Section B: The Sciences & Engineering, 64, 2902.MALCOLM ET AL. 278 Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention / 5:3 August 2005

A recovery orientation during brief psychiatric hospitalization focuses on improving adjustment and functioning and reducing future psychiatric crises and hospitalizations. Crisis rehabilitative skills training imparts knowledge, understanding, and abilities during a critical period of restabilization. After describing a rehabilitation oriented skills training program that occurs during brief i...

Residential Crisis Units (Rct:) are non-hospital-based facilities that provide mental health crisis intervention. This paper reviews the RCtZ literature base and fmds good evidence of the ability of RCUs to function as alternatives to hospitalization for many consumers, with equivalent effectiveness and for significantly less cost. Despite this promising research, the RCU model has not been wid...

In the United States, school violence is an issue of national concern. Many schools have responded to the problem by implementing prevention strategies that are, in general, of limited or unknown efficacy. Therefore, it is imperative that school officials be aware of efficacious school-based secondary violence prevention programs for at-risk youth, in order to select and implement a program tha...

patients and nine nurses were interviewed to explore both how NSCs affect clinical outcomes and how suicidal persons experience their usage. The results suggest that suicide management decisions may be negatively affected and that some patients find the use of the tool to be unhelpful. While further research is needed, the results of this study suggest that careful consideration be given before...

The National Health Service (NHS) Plan (Department of Health, 2000) set out an intention to establish 335 crisis resolution and home treatment teams in England by 2004, with the expectation that bed usage in acute adult general psychiatry could be further reduced (Joy et al, 2001). The initiative also aimed to make generally available a more acceptable and appropriate model of care, including ‘...

We describe results from a computer simulation-based study of a large-scale, human-initiated crisis in a densely populated urban setting. We focus on the interaction between human behavior and the communication infrastructure in the aftermath of the crisis. We study the effects of sending emergency broadcasts immediately after the event, advising people to shelter in place, and show that this r...