Piloting a New Model of Crisis Counseling: Specialized Crisis Counseling Services in Mississippi After Hurricane Katrina
- 14 April 2009
- journal article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research
- Vol. 36 (3), 195-205
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s10488-009-0214-2
Abstract
During January–April 2007, Project Recovery, a federally funded crisis counseling program implemented by Mississippi’s Department of Mental Health, piloted a new model of Specialized Crisis Counseling Services (SCCS) on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. In this team-based approach, a masters-level counselor trained in a variety of intervention techniques and a resource coordinator worked together with persons whose needs were relatively intense. Compared to regular program (RCCS) participants over the same interval (n = 29,522), SCCS participants (n = 281) were more likely to be female, middle-aged, and at greater risk for severe distress. In a participant survey conducted in both programs over the same week, SCCS participants reported significantly greater benefit than did RCCS participants. A subset of 129 SCCS participants provided pre- and post-participation assessments and showed large improvements in disaster-related distress.This publication has 17 references indexed in Scilit:
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