Crisis Interventions

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(1) Develop a crisis intervention strategy for an individual from that selected population

Research has focused on the ethnic group of African Americans focused on several variables such as socio-historical, education, and cultural differences. Thus, several factors reflecting their world view and unique to African Americans are often overlooked in traditional interventions. On this basis, as the research suggests, African Americans have historically underutilized formal health care services as a result of a multitude of factors, such as: (a) lack of insurance, (b) inaccessibility to primary and preventive services, and (c) perceptions of discrimination (Cornelius, Simpson, Gaynell, Ting, Wiggins, Lipford et al, 2003). As a result of a history of discrimination and differential treatment, African Americans experience high rates of depression, less likely than Caucasians to obtain ambulatory or inpatient mental health services (Freiman, Cunningham, & Cornelius, 1994 as cited in Cornelius et al., 2003). Further, as Corneluis et al point out, African Americans are members of an indigent population, and require multiple services ranging from basic needs to comprehensive health care requirements in which traditional outpatient clinics may not be able to meet.

Cornelius et al (2003) propose a community-based organization crisis intervention modeled after the Baltimore Crisis Response (BRCA) that has the capacity to reach ...