Crisis Care and Service Systems Part 1: SAMHSA’s National Guidelines for Behavioral Health Crisis Care: Best Practice Toolkit
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Course Summary
Series Overview: This course is part of a 3-course series on Crisis Care and Service Systems
Substance abuse and mental illness crisis situations occur in all communities. This series presents SAMHSA’s national guidelines and best practices for crisis care, which can be used to strengthen crisis care and reduce the impact of substance abuse, acute mental illness, and suicide in America. The courses in this Crisis Care and Service Systems series are:
• SAMHSA’s National Guidelines for Behavioral Health Crisis Care: Best Practice Toolkit
• Crisis Services Implementation and Infrastructure
• Crisis Care for Various Populations
Crisis mental health care in the United States is currently inconsistent and inadequate. Good crisis care is widely recognized as an effective strategy for preventing suicide, resolving mental health and substance use crises, reducing the use of emergency departments to board patients in psychiatric crisis, improving mental healthcare provision, and shifting reliance away from law enforcement and the justice systems to manage psychiatric emergencies. SAMSHSA’s National Guidelines for Behavior Health Crisis Care: Best Practice Toolkit presents best practice guidelines that reflect the standard of crisis care needed to prevent tragedies of public and patient safety. The purpose of this course is to support social workers, psychologists, marriage and family therapists, counselors, program managers, and direct care providers working with-in crisis care systems in providing effective crisis care that follows a set of national guidelines.
Clinicians can apply the best practice guidelines in this course as they offer universal access to the most appropriate services, supports, and resources to individuals experiencing mental health and substance use emergencies. This system focused learning material also offers providers with crisis system capacity modeling tools that can estimate crisis service needs. Other topics covered include and are not limited to tips for implementation, funding, and evaluation of system and provider performance.
Course Format
This course contains downloadable online lessons (PDF) and a practice test. When you're ready, purchase the course by clicking the "Add To Cart" button. This will let you take the test, complete the course evaluation and receive your certificate for CE credits.
Learning Objectives
- Identify the essential elements and qualities of a comprehensive crisis system as established by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
- Explain the goals, operation, and coordination of crisis call services in the crisis care system.
- Explain the goals, operations, and coordination of mobile crisis team services in crisis care system.
- Explain the goals, operation, and coordination of crisis receiving and stabilization services in crisis care systems.
- Describe unique challenges to the delivery of crisis care along with proposed resolutions.
- Describe best practices, tools, and innovative approaches that support the advancement of crisis care.
- Discuss the experiences of veteran crisis system leaders and previous crisis patients that helped inform SAMHSA's best practices for behavioral health crisis care.
Course Syllabus
Introduction
Overview
Core Services and Best Practices
Core Elements
Crisis Call Hub Services
Mobile Crisis Team Services
Additional Elements of a System of Care
Crisis System Coordination
Essential Principles
Unique Challenges of Rural and Frontier Communities
Funding Crisis Care
Crisis Service Coding
Assessing Adequacy of System Capacity
Care for All Populations Throughout the Lifespan
Crisis Resource Need Calculator
Indicators of Insufficient Capacity
Tips for System Implementation
Workforce Development
Technology in Crisis Care
System Evaluation Tools
Monitoring System and Provider Performance
Marketing and Communication Efforts
Conclusion
Continuous Quality Improvement & Innovation
Case Studies
Addendum
Interviews
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