Cops, clinicians, or both? Collaborative approaches to responding to behavioral health emergencies

ME Balfour, A Hahn Stephenson… - Psychiatric …, 2022 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
How a community responds to behavioral health emergencies is both a public health issue
and social justice issue. Individuals experiencing a behavioral health crisis often receive …

Re‐examining mental health crisis intervention: A rapid review comparing outcomes across police, co‐responder and non‐police models

N Marcus, V Stergiopoulos - Health & Social Care in the …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Police are the default first responders in most mental health crisis intervention models
worldwide, resulting in a heavy burden on police, perceived criminalization of individuals …

A systematic review of co-responder models of police mental health 'street'triage

S Puntis, D Perfect, A Kirubarajan, S Bolton, F Davies… - BMC psychiatry, 2018 - Springer
Background Police mental health street triage is an increasingly common intervention when
dealing with police incidents in which there is a suspected mental health component. We …

Acute psychiatric care: approaches to increasing the range of services and improving access and quality of care

S Johnson, C Dalton‐Locke, J Baker… - World …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Acute services for mental health crises are very important to service users and their
supporters, and consume a substantial share of mental health resources in many countries …

Policing mental health: the composition and perceived challenges of co-response teams and crisis intervention teams in the Canadian context

J Koziarski, C O'Connor, T Frederick - Police Practice and …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Due to an increase in interactions between the police and persons with perceived mental
illness (PwPMI), police services have begun deploying specialized crisis responses to more …

Police response to people with mental illnesses in a major US city: The Boston experience with the co-responder model

MS Morabito, J Savage, L Sneider, K Wallace - Victims & Offenders, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Like most major city police agencies, the Boston Police Department (BPD) serves a sizeable
population of individuals with behavioral health challenges. In 2017, the BPD received a …

Variation across police response models for handling encounters with people with mental illnesses: A systematic review and meta-analysis

C Seo, B Kim, NE Kruis - Journal of criminal justice, 2021 - Elsevier
Purpose The purpose of this study was to synthesize previous empirical research that
examined the outcomes of police response models (PRMs) for handling people with mental …

Evaluation of a police–mental health co-response team relative to traditional police response in Indianapolis

K Bailey, EM Lowder, E Grommon… - Psychiatric …, 2022 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Objective: Criminal justice and emergency medical service (EMS) outcomes were compared
for individuals experiencing a behavioral health crisis who received a response from a co …

Knowledge and skills for social workers on mobile crisis intervention teams

A Ghelani - Clinical Social Work Journal, 2022 - Springer
Public outrage over police-involved deaths of people in mental health crisis has prompted
governments to expand access to crisis services that partner police with social workers …

Shedding light on the dark figure of police mental health calls for service

J Koziarski, L Ferguson, L Huey - Policing: a journal of policy …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Recent discussions around police reform have acquired a significant degree of traction.
Within these discussions have been calls to remove the police as primary responders to …