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Morabito, Melissa S.; Kerr, Amy N.; Watson, Amy; Draine, Jeffrey; Ottati, Victor; Angell, Beth – Crime & Delinquency, 2012
The Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) program was first developed to reduce violence in encounters between the police and people with mental illness as well as provide improved access to mental health services. Although there is overwhelming popular support for this intervention, scant empirical evidence of its effectiveness is…
Descriptors: Health Services, Crisis Intervention, Violence, Mental Disorders
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Watson, Amy C. – Research on Social Work Practice, 2010
Police agencies across the country are struggling to respond to significant number of persons with serious mental illness, who are landing on their doorsteps with sometimes tragic consequences. Arguably, the most widely adopted approach, the Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) model, is a specialized police-based program designed to improve officers'…
Descriptors: Crisis Intervention, Police, Mental Disorders, Mental Health Programs