Best Crisis Intervention Products

These interventions can be administered in the community, through a crisis phone line, in the ED and at other sites of care throughout a health system (i.e., walk-in clinic). By providing this intervention at the right time, the first responder and clinical team seeks to mitigate further escalation of the psychological stress and minimize the potential for long-term trauma.

Crisis intervention teams (CITs) are police-based models that seek to de-escalate acute mental or substance use–related health crises.