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Responding to a high-profile tragic incident involving a person with a serious mental illness : a toolkit for state mental health commissioners.

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Description

1 online resource (88 pages)

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"The CSG Justice Center reserves the right to reproduce, publish, translate or otherwise use and to authorize others to publish and use all or any part of the copyrighted material contained in this publication."

Summary

"The material in this toolkit was developed with input from mental health commissioners who have been involved in responding to high-profile, tragic incidents. Advocates, crime victims, consumers of mental health services and media affairs representatives also informed its development. Recommendations are drawn from extant research and from promising practices in the field. The toolkit is designed to provide broad information and focuses primarily on helping to prepare for, respond to and successfully navigate an incident that captures significant public and media attention. This resource is not intended to be an exhaustive manual for responding to tragic incidents involving people with mental illnesses. Natural disasters that may have mental health impacts, for example, are beyond the scope of this toolkit. If more information about these types of events is needed, this guide includes some excellent resources on emergency preparedness."--Includes text from pages 1-2.

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Online Access

Contents

1. Before an incident. -- 2. During an incident -- 3. After an incident -- 4. Using the ancillary materials -- 4.1. Backgrounders -- 4.2. Fact sheets--4.3. Resources -- 4.4. Checklists/contact sheets --4.5. Effective crisis leadership: initial communications pocket guide -- Appendix A. Expert advisors -- Appendix B. Mental illness and violence literature review.

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