Use of force preferences and perceived effectiveness of actions among crisis intervention team (CIT) police officers and non-CIT officers in an escalating psychiatric crisis involving a subject with schizophrenia

Schizophrenia Bulletin

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 737-745

  Compton, Michael T ^a   Demir Neubert, Berivan N ^b   Broussard, Beth ^a   McGriff, Joanne A ^a   Morgan, Rhiannon ^c   Oliva, Janet R ^c  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Georgia Bureau of Investigation   (United States)

Author keywords

Crisis Intervention Team; law enforcement; police; schizophrenia; use of force

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; LAW ENFORCEMENT; MENTAL PATIENT; PATIENT CARE; POLICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TRAINING;

ADULT; ATTITUDE; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COERCION; COMMITMENT OF MENTALLY ILL; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; CRISIS INTERVENTION; DANGEROUS BEHAVIOR; DELUSIONS; FEMALE; HALLUCINATIONS; HUMANS; INSERVICE TRAINING; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT CARE TEAM; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; POLICE; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 79959696687     PISSN: 05867614     EISSN: 17451701     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/schbul/sbp146     Document Type: Article

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