ArticlePsychiatric services (Washington, D.C.)2022
Youths' and Young Adults' Experiences of Police Involvement During Initiation of Involuntary Psychiatric Holds and Transport.
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- "Acting as the Face of a Broken System": Challenges Experienced by Mobile Crisis Workers.Community mental health journal · 2026Article
- Social Support Among Minoritized Emerging Adults With Serious Psychological Health Issues.Emerging adulthood (Print) · 2026Article
- Emergency mental health co-responders reduce involuntary psychiatric detentions in the USA.Nature human behaviour · 2026Article
- The Overlooked Transition: Supporting School Reintegration After a Mental Health Emergency Department Visit.Children and youth services review · 2025Article
- Ethical Considerations in Substance Use Treatment for Youth: Assessing Clinical Practices and Policy Frameworks for Potential Harm.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2025Review
- Discomfort with asking the police for help: Patterns among 8Child & youth services · 2025Article
- Childhood adversities and suicidal ideation among young adults with serious mental illnesses: The mediating roles of perceived stress, dispositional hope, and mental health hope.Journal of affective disorders · 2025Article
- Gender-specific pathways in mental health crisis in adolescents, from consultation to (in)voluntary admission: a retrospective study.BMC psychiatry · 2024Article
- The 988 suicide hotline-Lifeline or letdown? A pre-post policy analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- State Reporting Requirements for Involuntary Holds, Court-Ordered Guardianship, and the US National Firearm Background Check System.JAMA health forum · 2023Article
- Structural Racism and Suicide Prevention for Ethnoracially Minoritized Youth: A Conceptual Framework and Illustration Across Systems.The American journal of psychiatry · 2022Review
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Abstract
Over the past decade, police involvement in behavioral health crisis response has generated concern and controversy. Despite the salience and timeliness of this topic, the literature on service user experiences of interactions with officers is small and studies of youths and young adults are nonexistent. The authors aimed to investigate youths' and young adults' experiences of police involvement in involuntary psychiatric hold initiation and transport. In-depth interviews were conducted with 40 participants (ages 16-27) who had experienced an involuntary hold; the 28 participants who reported police involvement are the focus of this analysis. Data were inductively coded, and codes were grouped into larger themes. A majority of participants reported negative experiences; major themes characterizing negative encounters were the framing of distress as criminal or of intervention as disciplinary rather than therapeutic, perceived aggression and callousness from police officers, and poor communication. The authors also characterized the positive experiences of officer involvement reported by a minority of participants and youths' perspectives on the degree of control officers could exert over initiation and transport decisions. Findings help center the voices of youths and young adults with mental health challenges and raise important questions about contemporary policies regarding police involvement in crisis response and, more broadly, about coercive responses to distress or emotional crisis.
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