Best clinical practices: The ultimate intercept
- Law enforcement and emergency services
- Postarrest: initial detention and initial hearings
- Post-initial hearings: jail, courts, forensic evaluations, and forensic commitments
- Reentry from jails, state prisons, and forensic hospitalization
- Community corrections and community support
* Editors Note:
The graphic of the “Sequential Intercept Model” was created by Mark R. Munetz, M.D., and Patricia A. Griffin, Ph.D., of the SAMHSA-funded National GAINS Center. The graphic appears in “Use of the Sequential Intercept Model as an Approach to Decriminalization of People with Serious Mental Illness,” an article published by Psychiatric Services online. [Psychiatr Serv 57:544-549, April 2006 doi: 10.1176/appi.ps.57.4.544]