Chris Taylor, PhD

I spend a fair amount of time at Waffle House. Enough that somewhere along the way I started watching the staff almost as much as I watched the grill. If you have spent any time in a busy Waffle House, you know there is a lot happening in a very small space. Orders are being called. Plates are moving. Customers are coming and going.Somebody needs coffee. Somebody else has decided their eggs are a matter requiring immediate intervention. The staff are constantly taking in information, deciding...

Most BIT/CARE and threat assessment teams would probably answer yes if someone asked whether their members receive training. They attend conferences. Someone brings in a trainer every few years. The chair forwards webinars and articles. People pick up training through professional associations and their home departments, and experienced members learn quite a bit simply by working cases together. Ask a few more questions and the answer can get fuzzier. Who has been trained? What did they take?...

What BIT/CARE teams can learn from new research on tiered and low-intensity student mental-health support. Most colleges have more mental-health resources than they did ten or fifteen years ago. Counseling centers have expanded where budgets allow, and campuses have added wellness programs, online resources, crisis lines, peer support, case management, BIT/CARE teams, outside partnerships, and enough apps and websites that even the people who work there may occasionally have trouble...