title: The Assaultive Staff Action Program (ASAP): 25 Year Program Analysis.
abstract: The Assaulted Staff Action Program (ASAP) is a voluntary, system-wide, peer-help, crisis intervention program to address the psychological sequelae in staff victims of patient assaults. It has been associated with cost-effective, quality support services to staff victims of patient assaults and declines in assaults facility-wide in several facilities, after an ASAP was fielded. ASAP's functions and service provisions have been reported in previous 5-year intervals. The present paper reports on its most recent 5-year interval as ASAP complete its 25th year of service. The 5-year summary and the basic strengths and limitations of the program over this 25 year period are examined.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge Health Alliance, Harvard Medical School, 1493 Cambridge street, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA. raymond_flannery@hms.harvard.edu.|The University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, USA. raymond_flannery@hms.harvard.edu.
authors.forename: Raymond B
authors.initials: RB
authors.lastname: Flannery
mesh_terms: D003419:Crisis Intervention; D006282:Health Personnel / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D010361:Patients / Q000523:psychology*; D015397:Program Evaluation; D014754:Violence / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000523:psychology*
keywords: ASAP; Assaulted Staff Action Program; Crisis intervention; Patient assaults; Staff victims