Alternative Crisis Mental Health Responses
Protocol for a Knowledge-To-Action Study
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7156539 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Allen Eaton (0000-0003-1331-1222, University of Regina, corresponding author), Megan W Rowe (Dalhousie University), Leyna Lowe (Canadian Mental Health Association), Allannah Nguyen (University of Regina), Claire Ryder (The Fourth People's Hospital), Amanda Mathew (Centre for Alternative Technology) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Publication date | 2025-11-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Qualitative Methods (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1609-4069 • E-ISSN: 1609-4069 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/16094069251404342 |
| OpenAlex | W7115179331 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 24 |
Alternative crisis mental health responses are models that differ from the default, policy-only model of responding to emergency reports of acute psychological distress in the community. The two prevalent alternative models are co-response, pairing police with a civilian (such as a nurse or social worker) and civilian response, whereby first responders are not police. Two scoping reviews have been completed that synthesize key processes from the literature that underpin co-response and civilian response. Informed by transformative justice and the principle of the collective, this protocol details a knowledge-to-action (KTA) study whereby summaries of those scoping reviews will be used as prompts for semi-structured interviews with interest-holders (frontline service providers, people with lived experience of mental health crises, policymakers, and mental health scholars and advocates) across the United States and Canada. Interviews will focus on participants’ experiences with and perceptions of crisis response, as well as their opinions about the accuracy and relevance of the scoping reviews. The analytic plan incorporates content analysis and interpretive phenomenology to capture both the patterns that emerge and the meanings that participants attach to their experiences, producing a more layered and comprehensive analysis than either method could achieve alone. This protocol represents one of the first research plans to apply the KTA cycle and the first known study to propose that a team of researchers first synthesize the literature and then interview key informants about the accuracy and applicability of those knowledge syntheses. Findings may highlight discrepancies between the literature and the field, with a focus on alternative crisis mental health response
Crisis intervention · Distress · Focus group · Mental health · Mental health service · Mental illness · Perception · Transformative learning · Disaster Management and Resilience · Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research · Psychiatric care and mental health services
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| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |