C.P.I. good, bad, or otherwise??

[the new girl]

I work in a State Mental Hospital, and we are currently utilizing C.P.I. (Crisis Prevention Intervention), I am wondering if anyone else out there is using this, and if so, are you having any luck??? It is in my opinion, that it can actually be dangerous when you do not work as a "team". I know there are many instances where the CPI approach is almost impossible to use. The patients catch on, and have figured out ways to kick their feet out etc. Any input??

[dachweiler]

Orca, I should have been more specific. The hospital I work in is located in Arkansas and is the only psych facility for a several hundred mile radius. We get the worst type of patients. Police have brought us people that have fought and injured them! (and we have NO male staff on the nightshift)

Mandt would have worked with the type of patients we used to have. (it does seem to work sometimes with children) I do think the concepts are good.