Adapting the crisis intervention team (CIT) Model of police-mental health collaboration in a low-income, post-conflict country: Curriculum development in Liberia, West Africa

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 2015, Pages e73-e80

  Kohrt, Brandon A ^a   Blasingame, Elise ^b   Compton, Michael T ^c   Dakana, Samuel F ^d   Dossen, Benedict ^b   Lang, Frank ^e   Strode, Patricia ^b   Cooper, Janice ^f  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CARTER CENTER   (United States)

^c LENOX HILL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d National Police Training Academy Liberian National Police   (Liberia)

^e Moultrie Police Department   (United States)

^f National Alliance on Mental Illness   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPACITY BUILDING; COOPERATION; CRISIS INTERVENTION; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMAN; LIBERIA; MANPOWER; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; POLICE; POVERTY; PROCEDURES; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PSYCHOLOGY; PUBLIC RELATIONS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; STANDARDS; WARFARE;

CAPACITY BUILDING; COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; CRISIS INTERVENTION; CURRICULUM; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEALTH PLAN IMPLEMENTATION; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; INTERINSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS; LIBERIA; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; POLICE; POVERTY; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; WARFARE;

EID: 84922703122     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2014.302394     Document Type: Article

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