Crisis Services, An Issue of Psychiatric Clinics of North America

In this issue of <i>Psychiatric Clinics</i>, guest editors Drs. Margie Balfour and Matthew Goldman bring their considerable expertise to the topic of <b>Crisis Services</b>. Crisis services are specially designed for people who need immediate, same-day access to psychiatric care. In this issue, top experts keep psychiatrists well-informed on mental health crisis intervention, including recent developments and major expansions to come.<ul><li>Contains <b>13 relevant, practice-oriented topics</b> including equity/disparities: designing crisis services as a way to decriminalize mental illness; crisis contact centers: phone, chat and text-based crisis intervention; mass violence and crisis response; low-threshold crisis services for people experiencing homelessness and other structural barriers; and more.</li><li>Provides in-depth <b>clinical reviews on crisis services</b>, offering actionable insights for clinical practice.</li><li>Presents the <b>latest information on this timely, focused topic</b> under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.</li></ul>