Crisis intervention and the prevention of institutionalization: An interrupted time series analysis
- 1 February 1978
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in American Journal of Community Psychology
- Vol. 6 (1) , 33-45
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00890098
Abstract
In the context of the community mental health movement in Illinois, the evolution and development of a crisis intervention program aimed at avoiding state hospitalization and bringing more appropriate and efficacious resources to bear on the difficulties of the individual and/or family is described. This intervention program is characterized by a more active-seeking style of delivering mental health services. With the novel application of interrupted time series analysis to both the targeted and matched nonequivalent control communities the efficacy of this more active intervention in reducing the number of state hospital administrations diagnosed as "mentally ill" is highlighted. The cost/benefit to the taxpayer is also discussed.Keywords
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