Crisis Intervention
To stabilize the individual, reduce immediate distress, and restore them to their pre-crisis level of functioning, while also promoting the development of new coping and problem-solving skills to prevent long-term psychological damage and facilitate growth.
What is the primary goal of crisis intervention?
The simultaneous presence of two or more conditions, typically a mental health disorder and a substance use disorder.
What is co-occurring disorders or dual diagnosis?
A 1996 U.S. federal law that establishes national standards to protect sensitive patient health information (PHI) from unauthorized disclosure.
What is HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act)?
Established in 1876, 100 years after the nation’s independence.
Why is Colorado nicknamed the Centennial State?
Mount Fuji
What is the most climbed mountain in the world?
A mental health professional (such as a clinician or behavioral health specialist) who works alongside a law enforcement officer to respond to emergency calls involving mental health crises, substance use issues, homelessness, and other quality-of-life concerns.
What is a Co-Responder?
Involves strategies to minimize the negative health and social consequences of substance use, even if it doesn't immediately lead to full abstinence.
What is Harm Reduction?
The right of individuals to make their own choices about their lives and treatment, serving as a fundamental ethical principle of self-determination. It requires respecting a person's ability to make informed decisions, even when their choices contradict professional recommendations, provided they have decision-making capacity.
What is autonomy?
Grand Mesa
What is the largest flat-topped mountain in the world?
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
What was the first animated film created by Disney?
A communication technique where you give the speaker your full and undivided attention to genuinely understand their message, rather than just waiting to respond.
What is active listening?
Intranasal: A pre-filled device sprays the medication into one nostril.
Intramuscular (IM): The medication is injected into a large muscle, such as the outer thigh or upper arm.
Intravenous (IV): The medication is injected directly into a vein.
Subcutaneous (SC): The medication is injected into the fatty tissue just under the skin.
What are the 4 ways to administer Narcan (naloxone)?
A legal standard that allows for involuntary psychiatric care when a person, due to a mental disorder, poses a risk of serious physical harm to themselves or others, or is unable to meet their basic needs for food, clothing, or shelter.
What is posing a danger to self or others (or gravely disabled)?
Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve
Where are the tallest sand dunes in North America located?
A large marine cavern or sinkhole that is open to the surface and has developed in a bank or island.
What is a blue hole?
To de-escalate volatile situations, provide immediate mental health support, assess the individual's needs, and connect them to appropriate community services and treatment, diverting them from the criminal justice system or unnecessary emergency room visits.
What is the goal of a co-responder team?
Alcohol, Marijuana, Methamphetamine, Heroin/Opioids, and Cocaine.
What are the 5 most common addictions in Colorado?
One requires acting to promote the well-being of others, while the other requires avoiding causing harm. The core difference is that one is an active duty to do good, while the other is a more passive duty to avoid doing bad or causing harm.
What is the difference between beneficence vs nonmaleficence?
Colorado Springs
Where is the United States Olympic Training Center located?
A region in space where the gravitation pull is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape.
What is a black hole?
Colorado currently has at least 51 of these programs, with 31 funded by the Colorado Behavioral Health Administration (BHA) and an additional 20 or more independently existing across the state.
Number of Co-responder programs in Colorado?
924,000 adults in Colorado (that is more than 5X the population of Fort Collins).
How many adults in Colorado have a mental health condition?
The legal and ethical rule that protects private health information shared with a mental health professional, while the duty to warn is an exception that requires a professional to break that confidentiality when a patient poses a serious, imminent threat of harm to themselves or a clearly identifiable third party.
What is the duty to warn vs. patient confidentiality?
Rocky Mountain Columbine
What is the state flower of Colorado?
Can smash a shell with the force of a .22 caliber bullet.
How hard is the punch of a mantis shrimp?