Crisis De-Escalation Training for Staff and Consumers in Inpatient and Other Service Delivery Settings
The goal of this project is to reduce seclusion and restraint among men and women inpatients with psychiatric disabilities, and to empower people in a variety of mental health settings to determine their own course of treatment during times of crisis.
Toolkit for Increasing Self-Determination through Advance Crisis Management in Inpatient and Community Settings (Download our Publications list for ordering information) This toolkit package is designed for administrators, supervisors, managers, service providers, and clients interested in developing procedures for advance crisis planning in psychiatric treatment settings. While it is intended for use in inpatient programs, partial hospitalization programs, and residential facilities, it can be adapted for psychosocial rehabilitation programs, community mental health centers, clubhouses, and any other acute or long-term mental health treatment settings in which people with psychiatric disabilities are served.
The toolkit contains three major training resources:
- Instruction Manual -- Increasing Self-Determination through Advance Crisis Management: How to Design, Implement, and Evaluate Your Own Program This manual addresses four major topics: designing and implementing an advance crisis management program; creating and using advance crisis management plans each day; common concerns regarding advance crisis management programs; and evaluating advance crisis management plans and procedures.
- Videotaped Training Demonstration - Increasing Self-Determination: Advance Crisis Planning with Mental Health Consumers in Inpatient and Other Settings This videotape demonstrates how to conduct training on advance crisis management plans and procedures. Common concerns of inpatient staff and vignettes are included.
- Handouts for use with Videotaped Training Demonstration These handouts accompany the videotaped training demonstration for designing an advance crisis management program.
PROJECT STAFF:
Jessica A. Jonikas, MA and Judith A. Cook, Ph.D.
