Safety in Home-Based Care: Addressing Mental Illness
Presented by Quinn Tyminski
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Rates of mental illness continue to increase in the United States while many healthcare professionals remain underprepared to address the accompanying symptoms and crises. When working in homes and communities, home health practitioners are often placed in a unique situation of being the first, and often only, healthcare provider to be present during a mental health crisis. Thus, home healthcare providers (therapy professionals, nursing, and social work) need to be trained to intervene and address issues of mental illness and substance use when they arise. This course aims to provide quick tips for providers who enter the home and other community contexts to address mental health crises. Issues of substance use, suicidality, and crisis intervention will be addressed.
Learning Objectives
- Recognize the signs that an individual is having a mental health crisis
- Identify appropriate methods to intervene in a mental health crisis
- Compare methods of intervening in a mental health crisis when substance use may be present
- List methods of intervention when suicidality is present
Meet your instructor
Quinn Tyminski
Dr. Quinn Tyminski currently serves as an instructor in the program in occupational therapy at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri. Dr. Tyminski earned her master’s degree in occupational therapy from Washington University in 2012 and her clinical doctorate of occupational therapy in 2017 from…
Chapters & learning objectives
1. Crisis Intervention Basics
This chapter will cover the basics of mental health crises. Information provided in this chapter will educate practitioners on recognizing signs and symptoms of a mental health crisis and provide suggested interventions.
2. Suicidality and Substance Use Basics
This chapter will cover a short overview of suicidality, including risk factors for suicide, signs of suicidal intent, and means for assessing suicidality. Safety planning and other resources will be addressed as interventions. Finally, this chapter will include a short discussion of substance use and the implementation of harm reduction models for practitioners.
3. Case Study Practice With Crisis Intervention
This final chapter will provide case examples, including instances of substance use, mental health crises, and suicidality, to allow practitioners to identify and reason through steps to address difficult situations.
