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• n  psychotherapy that focuses on acute critical situations (depressive episodes or attempted suicides or drug overdoses) with the aim of restoring the person to the level of functioning before the crisis

News & Articles

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• Volunteer fitness trainer earns award
  Cindy Turner, 44, a Crisis Intervention Specialist with the Marion County Sheriff's Office, decided that while her husband was gone for six months she would “turn some fat into muscle and tone-up."
  July 5, 2013 - The Ocala Star-Banner
• Crisis Intervention Training for Corrections Employees Working with Mentally Ill Offenders
  HARRISBURG, Pa., July 3, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Department of Corrections officials have trained more than 100 employees in the area of crisis intervention since December 2012, with a goal of eventually providing training to all employees who have day-to-day contact with inmates...
  July 3, 2013 - PR Newswire
• Grant to Fund Study of Police Crisis-Intervention Teams
  A $3.1 million, five-year grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to researchers in the University of Illinois at Chicago's Jane Addams College of Social Work will fund a study of the effectiveness of a police-based diversion approach that uses crisis intervention teams, or CIT.
  July 2, 2013 - Newswise