Compare And Contrast Crisis Intervention Model And Suicide

Homicidal or Violent There are clients who reach out to the crisis line due to having thoughts of wanting to hurt others. At times, family members may reach out to the crisis line after getting into a fight with the client or if they see the client engaging in pre-violent behaviors. The clients may have low tolerance and high agitation levels or have mood disorders.
Mental Health Some clients dial into the crisis line due to mental health crises like a psychotic episode or severe depression. Some clients become regular callers but may have to be monitored for when they go below baseline as that is when they can become suicidal. These clients may require the most follow-up services after a crisis.
Crisis Intervention Models and Suicide
The company sometimes combines the steps to make it more cohesive and includes the Transtheoretical Model. The Transtheoretical model is an integrative, biopsychosocial model to conceptualize the process of intentional behavior change which was conceptualized by Prochaska, Diclemente, and Norcross (1992) (Calderwood, 2011). The company utilizes the Columbia which is a Universal suicide prevention model and has a rating scale and questions that help determine suicide risk. The questions in the Columbia include questions about pain, urgency, acquired capability, intent, measures degrees of hopelessness, loneliness, and perceived burdensomeness (Hill, Hatkevich, Kazimi, & Sharp, 2017). The company also pulls concepts from the Crisis Triage Rating scale which steps include the recognition of warning signs, exploration of crisis situation and psychopathological symptoms, assessment of protective and risk factors, estimation of suicide risk and a plan for management of suicidal patients through different levels of interventions (Turner & Turner, 1991) and made it the Revised-Crisis Triage Rating Scale which includes the Transtheoretical
The clinicians are expected to learn the most common diagnoses and be able to cite to the essential criteria. The diagnoses that must be learned by the end of all training for a final test at the end where the clinician must obtain an 80 percent or higher. It is important that the clinician also understands the effects of various drugs as that can have similar presentation as some diagnoses like Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia. Clinicians are expected to understand which drugs when going through withdrawal can be lethal. Understanding these is important in providing provisional diagnoses for clients as the company uses diagnoses to help determine care and proper