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Community crisis intervention: the Coldenham tragedy revisited
J T Mitchell1, G Schiller, V A Eyler
1Emergency Health Services, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA.
International Journal of Emergency Mental Health
|March 10, 2001
Abstract:
Crisis intervention is commonly thought of as acute psychological first-aid applied within close temporal proximity to the precipitating event. This paper reports the positive effects of a comprehensive crisis intervention applied over three years after the precipitating event and on a "community-wide" basis.