Year: 1992 Source: Hospital and Community Psychiatry, v.43, no.6, (June 1992), p.612-615 SIEC No: 19920239

An emergency psychiatry-mobile crisis program was established in 1987 in Charleston, South Carolina. The program has 2 goals: to provide emergency psychiatric services to persons in the community & to train psychiatric residents in crisis intervention. The authors describe the development of the collaboration with police & important features of the program. 3 cases, including an attempted suicide, illustrate how such collaboration can be of mutual benefit & can save lives. (10 refs.)