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Psychiatric Crisis Intervention in Tunbridge Wells

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Shirley M. Smout ,
Mary Scott  and
Paul Fisher
Shirley M. Smout
Affiliation:
Hellingly Hospital, East Sussex
Mary Scott
Affiliation:
Community Psychiatric Nursing Service, Tunbridge Wells
Paul Fisher
Affiliation:
Tunbridge Wells Division of Social Services
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The concept of crisis intervention and the various types of services available for dealing with crises affecting the individual or the family have been well set out in the publication from Napsbury Hospital. We would agree with Ratna's statement in that publication that crisis intervention is not only a system of delivering emergency psychiatric care, but also a set of techniques which utilizes a crisis to therapeutic advantage. It was with this in mind that a pilot study was launched in April 1979 for a crisis intervention service in Tunbridge Wells, Kent.

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Bulletin of the Royal College of Psychiatrists , Volume 7 , Issue 3 , March 1983 , pp. 46 - 48
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1983

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