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Traditional Chinese Medicine Rehabilitation Treatment Techniques for COVID-19
Published in Wenguang Xia, Xiaolin Huang, Rehabilitation from COVID-19, 2021
Under the premise of understanding the patient, psychological crisis intervention should be given in addition to drug treatment, such as timely assessment of patients’ risk of suicide, self-injury, or attack; positive psychological support; and direct conflict with the patient. The therapist should explain the importance and necessity of isolation treatment to the patient, and encourage the patient to build confidence in positive recovery.
Broadening the context of the office visit or medical consultation
Published in Marian Stuart, Joseph Lieberman, The Fifteen Minute Hour, 2018
Marian Stuart, Joseph Lieberman
The crisis intervention model is useful in specifying the time-limited nature of acute stress. Crises generally resolve within four to six weeks. By providing support, crisis intervention aims to prevent dire consequences, return the individual to a premorbid level of functioning, enhance self-esteem, and expand coping strategies. When the actions of the practitioner make the patient feel competent and connected, the healthy system will be reengaged. If practitioners understand these mechanisms and routinely provide supportive interventions, the results will be therapeutic for patients and rewarding for the practitioner.
Psychological aspects of early treatment interventions
Published in Christopher Riley, Morton Warner, Carolyn Semple Piggot, Amanda Pullen, John Wyn Owen, Releasing Resources to Achieve Health Gain, 2018
Also in primary care come crisis intervention teams, which link tertiary experience with primary care settings to offer a rapid response and short-term intervention. Their actions are aimed at helping families to support the identified client using existing social networks. One study in Tower Hamlets has shown that for the cost of two hospital beds over 12 months, a crisis intervention team supported 117 families over the same period. The crises referred to the team included the threat of violence, psychosis, suicide and family breakdown.
Disaster mental health: remembering the past, shaping the future
Published in International Review of Psychiatry, 2021
Surge capacity must be enhanced. In the wake of disaster, the surge for mental health services has historically exceeded mental health capacity. Norris and colleagues provide an exhaustive review of the psychological impact of disasters that serves to underscore the need for intervention services (Norris, Friedman, Watson, et al., 2002; Norris, Friedman, Watson, 2002). To meet these mental health demands, alternative approaches to psychological care and who delivers such care must be considered (Everly, 2020). The psychological crisis intervention and psychological first aid approach to responding to the distress of a disaster can be employed by mental health clinicians as well as those not trained in the mental health professions (Castellano & Plionis, 2006; Castellano, 2012; Wu et al., 2020). The American Psychiatric Association supported crisis intervention-based training and practice for disasters as early as 1954. ‘In all disasters, whether they result from the forces of nature or from enemy attack, the people involved are subjected to stresses of a severity and quality not generally encountered…It is vital for all disaster workers to have some familiarity with common patterns of reaction to unusual emotional stress and strain. These workers must also know the fundamental principles of coping most effectively with disturbed people. Although [these suggestions have] been stimulated by the current needs for civil defense against possible enemy action… These principles are essential for those who are to help the victims of floods, fires, tornadoes, and other natural catastrophes’ (APA, 1954, p. 5).
Applications of peer support in disasters: connecting in times of disaster
Published in International Review of Psychiatry, 2021
Evidence has historically supported the notion that psychological crisis intervention can reduce the need for psychiatric hospitalisations and subsequent psychiatric disability (Decker & Stubblebine, 1972). Furthermore, evidence suggests that “peer” crisis interventionists can provide acute psychological support, assessment, and triage in a competent manner (Boscarino et al., 2005, 2011; Durlak, 1979; Hattie, Sharpley, & Rogers, 1984; Wu et al., 2020). Confiding in someone with similar experiences is often helpful during a time of personal crisis. That is the guiding principle behind Reciprocal Peer Support, a groundbreaking program that connects persons experiencing a mental health crisis with a “peer” from a similar background. Embracing the mechanism of telephone “hotlines” as a medium for the delivery of crisis intervention, cops talk to cops talk to cops, veterans talk to veterans, and mothers of children with special needs talk to each other, firefighters talk to firefighters, etc.
In the Global Epicenter: Social Work Leadership in a New York City Hospital
Published in Social Work in Health Care, 2021
Nancy Xenakis, Mary M. Brosnan, Laudy Burgos, Jocelyn Childs, Julia Deschamps, Judith Dobrof, Diane Weg Farquhar, Maya L. Genovesi, Kaitlin R. Goldgraben, Elisa Gordon, Christine Hamilton, Sarah R. Koppel, Murray N. Lipp, Rachel Potter, Ann Rauch, Victoria Rodriguez, Elizabeth Schubert, Emma D. Sollars, Felice Zilberfein
In the clinical response examples, social workers followed a crisis intervention model grounded in crisis theory. The central tenet of crisis intervention, applied to communities that have been exposed to disaster, is that “ … a little help, rationally directed and purposefully focused at a strategic time is more effective than more extensive help given at a time of less emotional accessibility” (Regehr, 2011, p. 136). Social work’s ability to own many key elements of this crisis (rapid assessment, intervention and discharge/care planning including provision of resources and follow-up across all settings, both in person and via telehealth) enabled it to serve as the communication continuity between patients, their care partners and medical provider(s); offer expert and continuous support to members of their interprofessional teams that were often newly formed; and reflexively pivot to meet the changing needs, demonstrating its essential worth to the organization.