mental health crisis definition
(World Health Organization definition of Mental Health) A person has a mental health crisis when they are in a state of mind in which they are unable to cope with and adjust to the recurrent stresses of everyday living in a functional, safe way. Some signs that a person may be in a mental health crisis are:
Crisis teams use the definition, under Minnesota law which defines a mental. health crisis as a âbehavioral, emotional, or psychiatric situation which, but. for the provision of crisis response services, would likely result in significantly. reduced levels of functioning in primary activities of daily living, or in an.