The role of the paramedic in mental health crisis care

Williams, David

Abstract

Throughout, the book:
• Promotes understanding of the various roles each of the key services play within the crucial first 24-hours of a mental health crisis and the challenges they face
• Fosters interprofessional collaboration to create a whole-system approach to crisis care
• Helps professionals to understand good practice and the challenges of other services when aiding a person in crisis
• Critically evaluates service provision and ways to improve crisis care
• Explores recovery and collaboration with service users experiencing a crisis and their significant others

The book is timely and essential in its promotion of high-quality interdisciplinary response and emphasis on integration and collaboration between service providers.

• Publication Date: Mar 7, 2022
• Deposit Date: Jul 29, 2022
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Book Title: Interprofessional Perspectives of Mental Health Crisis
• Chapter Number: 5
• ISBN: 9780335250493
• Keywords: Mental health; Mental health crisis; Paramedics; recovery and collaboration; service users; interdisciplinary response; collaborative mental health care
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/9763709
• Publisher URL: https://www.mheducation.co.uk/interprofessional-perspectives-of-mental-health-crisis-for-nurses-health-and-the-helping-9780335250493-emea-group
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