Does level of professional training make a difference in crisis intervention counseling?
This study tests the concept that crisis intervention using a multilevel trained staff is more effective, because a staff with less education might better reach clients from diverse socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds. The Client-Post Rating Scale (Revised) was administered to a sample of clients served by a multilevel crisis intervention team located in a large midwestern metropolitan area to determine the efficacy of worker intervention. It was found that level of training was unrelated to counselor effectiveness and that less well-educated staff more frequently worked with less economically advantaged populations.
D000488:Allied Health Personnel / Q000193:education; D003419:Crisis Intervention; D004522:Educational Status; D005006:Ethnicity; D006801:Humans; D009820:Ohio; D012947:Social Work / Q000193:education; D012949:Social Work, Psychiatric; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D000078329:Workforce