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Crisis Services, An Issue of Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 1st Edition

Authors :
Margie Balfour & Matthew Goldman
Date of Publication: 08/2024
In this issue of Psychiatric Clinics, guest editors Drs. Margie Balfour and Matthew Goldman bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Crisis Services. Crisis services are specially designed for people who need immediate, same-day access to p ...view more
In this issue of Psychiatric Clinics, guest editors Drs. Margie Balfour and Matthew Goldman bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Crisis Services. Crisis services are specially designed for people who need immediate, same-day access to psychiatric care. In this issue, top experts keep psychiatrists well-informed on mental health crisis intervention, including recent developments and major expansions to come.
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In this issue of Psychiatric Clinics, guest editors Drs. Margie Balfour and Matthew Goldman bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Crisis Services. Crisis services are specially designed for people who need immediate, same-day access to psychiatric care. In this issue, top experts keep psychiatrists well-informed on mental health crisis intervention, including recent developments and major expansions to come.

Key Features
  • Contains 13 relevant, practice-oriented topics including equity/disparities: designing crisis services as a way to decriminalize mental illness; crisis contact centers: phone, chat and text-based crisis intervention; mass violence and crisis response; low-threshold crisis services for people experiencing homelessness and other structural barriers; and more.
  • Provides in-depth clinical reviews on crisis services, offering actionable insights for clinical practice.
  • Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.

Author Information
Edited by Margie Balfour, MD, PhD, Chief of Quality & Clinical Innovation Connections Health Solutions Associate Professor of Psychiatry University of Arizona Tucson, Arizona and Matthew Goldman, MD, MS, Medical Director for Comprehensive Crisis Services San Francisco Department of Public Health Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor University of California San Francisco San Francisco, California