Short course
8.6
Crisis management
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| Needs and providers of crisis management
| Psychiatric services cannot provide the entire range of crisis interventions required in our society. |
| | As communities, we should be encouraged to "look after our own" partly through a network of formal and informal crisis support structures.
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| | General practitioners and others in a good position to do crisis intervention require higher levels of awareness of and training in its uses, with support from specialty services.
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| | Early detection and intervention is important for young people who may be developing signs of mental illness or suicidal intention for the first time, which may manifest as a life crisis.
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| If there is a potential or existing mental illness, good outcomes are more likely to result from good teamwork between general practitioners, other clinicians and specialist mental health services.
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