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

B.A. Kohrt, E. Blasingame, M.T. Compton, S.F. Dakana, B. Dossen, F. Lang, P. Strode and J. Cooper

American Journal of Public Health, 2015, vol. 105, issue 3, e73-e80

Abstract: Objectives. We sought to develop a curriculum and collaboration model for law enforcement and mental health services in Liberia, West Africa.

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 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2014.302394

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