Crisis intervention (Mental health services) (Topical Term)
- Earlier heading: Crisis intervention (Psychiatry)
- Emergency mental health services
- Intervention, Crisis (Mental health services)
- Broader heading: Brief psychotherapy
- Broader heading: Mental health services
- Psychiatric emergencies
MESH (Crisis intervention)
Readers' guide (Crisis intervention)
Campbell psych. dict. (Crisis intervention: brief psychotherapy used to aid a person or group in coping with unusual or unforseen demands on functioning capacities)
Kaplan psych. (Crisis intervention: brief therapeutic approach used in emergency rooms of general or psychiatric hospitals that is ameliorative, rather than curative, of acute psychiatric emergencies; treatment factors often focus on environmental modification, although interpersonal and intrapsychic factors are also considered)