Behavioral health crisis services leadership and staff are getting the coronavirus vaccine around the United States, encouraging their colleagues and others to do the same. The rollout began on December 14, 2020. Have a photo you’d like to send? You can reach us at editor@crisisnow.com. [gallery link="none" type="rectangular" size="medium" ids="7980,7978,7976,7971,7972,7963,7939,7937,7931,7898,7896,7894,7867,7866,7844,7845"]
Sue Murray speaks with Bobby Pratap, deputy head of mental health at NHS England, on innovations to transform crisis care, fill in historical gaps, and enhance community mental health services.
Lisa St. George's stepfather began sexually abusing her at the age of seven. At 18, her thoughts of suicide grew emboldened, "sitting on my shoulder and talking in my ear." She discusses psychiatric hospitalization and how seclusion and restraint is re-traumatizing for victims of violence. She says the mental health
When in a psychiatric crisis, who a person of color encounters matters, says Victor Armstrong. He hopes change is on the horizon with 988 but notes it must coincide with advancing crisis care. Otherwise, telling people not to call 911 without an adequate solution leaves people in crisis and their
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