title: [Provincial public center for crisis intervention and psycho-social rehabilitation. A path towards communitary suicidology].
abstract: This work on the systematic comprehensive approach towards the Prevention and Postvencion of Suicide started to develop back in mid 2011 in Río Gallegos, capital of Santa Cruz Province. The first step on this development was a Pilot Plan for the Training of Professionals and also field intervention. The Center for Crisis Intervention and Psycho-social Rehabilitation was founded eight months later. The case-client in crisis plus family group- undergoes quantitative and qualitative evaluation by means of a triage system, all of which allows starting intensive face-to-face and also phone follow up according to the Crisis Intervention Model. Such intervention is developed by means of the participation in the "Grupo Sostén", the Adolescents Group if the client fits into that age, and also family relationship interviews as well as Multi-family meetings open to the Community. There is also a Community Team in the Center which performs collective assessment in schools, in conjunction with the "Equidad en Redes" Educational Specialty Team, belonging to the Provincial Education Council. The approach takes place on the field, and works as a screening step for the early detection of risk. Such risk is dealt with by means of short term intervention group programs involving the whole of the educational community. When facing situations of committed suicide there are interventions in communities to the interior of the province, fundamentally through the Hospital Team which works as the cluster convener for the social intersectoral frame-work.
authors.affiliation: Área Provincial de Intervención en Crisis, Ministerio de Salud de la Provincia de Santa Cruz, Argentina. carlosmartinez@massuicidologia.org.
authors.forename: Carlos
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Martínez
mesh_terms: D001118:Argentina; D003155:Community Mental Health Centers; D003156:Community Mental Health Services; D003419:Crisis Intervention; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D010865:Pilot Projects; D000092864:Suicide Prevention