Action | Mental Health Skill-building Services |
Stage | Final |
Comment Period | Ended on 7/27/2016 |
Requiring a renewed registration every seven days, in combination with developing an SSPI and ISP every seven days, is not conducive to timely crisis response or clinical best practices in crisis intervention. The crisis clinician needs the flexibility to provide rapid response to help ameliorate multi-faceted problems occuring over a short period of time. This should be based on a single assessment and ISP, which is then reviewed throughout the intervention period as a "living" document guiding practice and outcome. Attempting a comprehensive reassessment and full ISP every seven days prevents seamless clinical progress and full attention to intervention during a critical time of change for the individual in need of services. This is an undue burden on both the clinician and the client, who should be focused on getting better - not getting comprehensive assessment - each visit.