Question

Is it always necessary to intervene in a crisis situation?

Problem description

As a mobile Crisis Team, we tend to intervene immediately when the demand arrives, without considering “do we help or do we hinder?” from the point of view of the client as director of his own life story and care trajectory

Impact - effect

By intervening immediately at the moment of demands from third parties or the client himself and involving immediately 2nd line care, we might take over responsibilities which can be potentially handled by the client and which can give him something to build on. We will therefore probably ignore other care (subsidiarity principle), potentialities of the client,  possible support from the own network of the client

To do

To do: instead of intervening immediately at the moment of demand, assessing the home situation and often starting up crisis treatment, it might be appropriate, as in the Dutch model, to see the client along with a third person of his supporting network. In this way, the network can be mapped and the request for help will be examined before engaging 2nd line care

Theme

Starting up and further development/deployment of mobile teams

Topic

recovery oriented approaches in mobile teams

Référence – contact

Kristien Desmettre

Mobile team

2a

Project

Gent-Eeklo (PAKT)

Intership abroad - place

Noord-Holland-Noord (IHT)

Date

February 2015