Criminal justice professionals who conduct crisis intervention must train regularly to develop their skills to support individuals with mental health issues. Training budgets are limited and can require a bid for approval to complete specific training programs. Advanced positions with expanded responsibilities may require such trainings. To be effective at crisis intervention, you must be ready to listen carefully, think critically, speak clearly, and solve problems by communicating with affected individuals and other professionals in a way that will not risk making an already stressful situation worse.
For this summative assessment, you will prepare a proposal that justifies your readiness for a role supporting crisis intervention. This assessment will showcase your interpretation of best practices related to crisis intervention skills.
Make sure that you have completed the Wk 1: Creating Safe Scenes Training Course before completing this assessment. Research crisis intervention strategies for supporting individuals with mental health issues in different criminal justice settings. Consider how crisis intervention is handled differently in juvenile homes, county jails, and prisons that include special adult populations.
Assessment Deliverable
Write a 700- to 1,050-word proposal that analyzes the use of practical techniques for interacting with individuals experiencing mental health crises. Compose the proposal as if you were a criminal justice professional justifying to your employer your readiness for a role involving crisis intervention. Your proposal should reflect your understanding of best practices in crisis intervention and propose strategies for de-escalation and administrative handling of various mental health crises. Include the following in your proposal:
Describe how you would apply crisis intervention skills differently for individuals with mental health issues in each of the following settings:
Juvenile home
County jail
Prison that manages special populations
Explain the administrative processes and procedures related to crisis intervention in each of these settings, such as response protocols, follow up, documentation, or duty to inform. Explain the practical reasons for having special administrative processes and procedures for crisis intervention response to support individuals with mental health issues.
Describe your level of readiness to de-escalate situations with individuals experiencing a mental health crisis. Propose that you are ready for a professional role involving crisis intervention.
Cite at least 2 scholarly sources according to APA guidelines.
