From Office to On-Scene, Vital Skills for Mental Health Providers

Presentation Details: While some clinicians may be great at clinical work in the office, a different skill set is required for on-scene crisis intervention responses. For this reason, it’s difficult to choose the right clinician or make sure you are the right clinician for the job. In this presentation, I would present the T.E.A.M concept that categorizes clinician skill sets as 1) Therapy/ treatment, 2) Education/ training, 3) Assistance (with crisis negotiations, risk assessment), and 4) Management (clinical advising to peer support teams, wellness program development). Depending on the needs of the peer support team and agency, clinicians may need to be competent in some or all of these domains. A brief description of core competencies in each domain will be offered for practical assessment purposes. For teams and agencies, this presentation will reduce the likelihood that they will waste limited resources contracting with a provider who does not have an appropriate skill set to meet agency needs. Clinicians hoping to support peer teams and agencies would be given guidance on the unique needs and how they may develop those, according to their interests.