Citation

Brockopp GW. Crisis Interv. 1971; 3(1): 21-25.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1971, Suicide Prevention and Crisis Service)

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Abstract

Every telephone emergency service (like any service system which deals with a large number of people and has a large diverse staff) eventually must deal with the problem of the client who wishes to relate with only one person on the staff. Unlike large service agencies, for example Welfare or Medicare, which divide clients among various full-time case workers who maintain contact with the client and responsibility for helping them obtain the service that they need., suicide prevention centers are usually staffed by volunteers who have limited training and only part-time contact with the agency. The kind of client who wants to relate to only one person usually has insistent needs for "distant intimacy" (such as a telephone might permit) a history of rejections by various social and mental health agencies and some feeling of concern that now he is calling a suicide or crisis service...

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