Mobile crisis effectiveness: a systematic review and associated functions and forms framework.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Increased demand for mental health crisis services and falling supply of inpatient psychiatric beds in the United States (U.S.) has led to heavy investment in mobile crisis units (MCUs), teams of mental health professionals that de-escalate crises in the community and aim to prevent emergency department visits, arrests, self-harm, etc. Despite nearly two thousand such services being active in the U.S., the last review of MCUs, conducted in 1995, found no evidence of their effectiveness. It is not known if newer research validates the effectiveness of this widely used intervention, nor how aligned the goals and functions of the many MCUs are. This article systematically reviews the literature since 2000 to determine the effectiveness of MCUs in the U.S. and create a theor

SUBMITTER: Peters RL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12801951 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature