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Crisis Intervention Services In Mental Health: A Review Of The Literature, Roger A. Lohmann, Ellen Neidermeyer

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

This paper is a review of the literature on mobile crisis services and other forms of modern crisis intervention services. It is the first part of a larger project, termed the North Central West Virginia Crisis Study. The purpose of this literature review is to identify recent published literature on crisis services, with particular attention to crisis response services. No attempt has been made to survey the voluminous literature on crisis intervention practice skills and techniques.

Mental Health Crisis: A Survey, Roger A. Lohmann, Ellen Neidermeyer

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

This paper is a research report on mobile crisis services and other forms of modern crisis intervention services. It is part of a larger project, termed the North Central West Virginia Crisis Study. This paper reports the results of a survey of mental health crisis incidents reported to a multi-county hotline.

The Family Caregivers' Health Decision Making About Early Diagnosis For Alzheimer's Disease Patients, Ping Zhong Zhao

Dissertations and Theses

This study investigated the family caregivers' role in seeking early diagnosis for Alzheimer's Disease (A. D.) patients within the theoretical framework of the Health Belief Model (HBM). The research question was why some family caregivers sought diagnosis for their A. D. family members in the presence of mild symptoms while other caregivers delayed seeking diagnosis until severe symptoms had occurred.

Focus-group interviews were conducted to gather data. Participants were family caregivers whose family members had been diagnosed by the A. D. diagnostic units of the Good Samaritan Hospital, Portland, Oregon as having A. D. or related disorder. Participants were divided …