Psychiatric Services From Pages To Practice

Margaret E. Balfour, M.D., Ph.D., and Jason Winsky, B.A., join Dr. Dixon and Dr. Berezin to discuss their special article published in Psychiatric Services, “Cops, Clinicians, or Both? Collaborative Approaches to Responding to Behavioral Health Emergencies,” looking at collaborations between police and clinicians in the treatment of mental health and behavioral health emergencies.  Dr. Balfour is Chief of Quality & Clinical Innovation at Connections Health Solutions in Tucson, Arizona, and Sgt. Winsky is a police officer and supervisor of the Mental Health Investigative Support Team with the Tucson Police Department. Balfour and Winsky interview [00:32] How did you get started in this work? [01:22] Police department mental health team [02:44] Crisis Response Center [03:04] Why Arizona? [03:58] Arnold vs Sarn [04:54] Twenty-three hour observation model [05:35] Funding [06:20] How the crisis system works in Tucson [07:44] Easy access for law enforcement [10:11] Crisis management from the law enforcement pe