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This paper discusses the efforts of a community mental health center to respond more swiftly and creatively to crisis situations. The planning, operation, and termination of a crisis group are presented. This experiment served 17 people with no one remaining in the group for more than six sessions. Pre- and poststudies were conducted with group participants to help evaluate the changes, as the patient perceived them, that took place as a result of the group. The experiment covered a 6-month period.
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A longer version of this paper received the first-place award for its class in the Awards Program for Clinical Papers sponsored by the Mental Health Council of Greater Chicago in 1972.
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Walsh, J.A., Phelan, T.W. People in crisis an experimental group. Community Ment Health J 10, 3–8 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01434564
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01434564