Description
Review Chapter 5 in your course text, Crisis Intervention Strategies, focusing on both the various individuals and agencies involved in case handling at a community mental health clinic, as well as the different public and private organizations involved in the training for and implementation of Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) programs.
Review Chapter 17 in your course text, Crisis Intervention Strategies, noting the different organizations and agencies that collaborate during disaster response efforts to assist in crisis intervention.
Review the article, “The Emergency Department and Victims of Sexual Violence: An Assessment of Preparedness to Help,” paying particular attention to the various parties who should be involved in the effective treatment of a sexual assault survivor.
Review the article, “Replacing the Revolving Door: A Collaborative Approach to Treating Individuals in Crisis,” focusing on how collaboration between public and private agencies can be implemented to assist and benefit individuals experiencing mental health crises.
Select an individual, couple, family, or systemic crisis that has affected your community. Reflect on how you would approach intervention for this crisis from a collaborative standpoint. Think about with whom you would need to collaborate, and how and why this collaboration would benefit the client(s).
With these thoughts in mind:
Discussion Assignment:
Post by Day 4 a brief description of an individual, couple, family, or systemic crisis that has affected your community.* Then, explain how you would approach intervention for this crisis from a collaborative standpoint. Explain with whom you would need to collaborate, and how and why this collaboration would benefit the client(s). Be specific and provide examples.
*If your community has not been affected by an individual, couple, family, or systemic crisis, select a community with which you are familiar that has experienced such a crisis to use for this Discussion. Do not select communities affected by widely publicized individual, couple, family, and/or systemic crises.
