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This user-friendly resource presents a patient-centered approach to managing the growing incidence of major psychiatric emergencies in the outpatient setting. Abundant illustrations, tables, and algorithms guide you through the wide range of disorders discussed, and a color-coded outline format facilitates rapid access to essential information necessary for making a proper diagnosis for optimal management outcomes. Organizes information by patient presentation to help you distinguish among conditions that present with similar symptoms. Discusses medical conditions presenting with psychiatric symptoms, where appropriate. Highlights critical information in "Hazard Signs" boxes for quick, at-a-glance review. Uses acronyms and memory aids to enhance recall of information in moments of crisis. Features a chapter discussing the psychiatric effects of bioterrorism. Offers an Improved Suicide Risk Scale with criteria on impulsivity, plan, and lethal level of attempt. Provides valuable tips on interviewing and interacting with patients in various situations, as techniques will vary from depressed suicidal patients to manic and potentially assaultive individuals. Includes appendixes that discuss common psychiatric medications used and important lab values in the ER
1. The Suicidal Patient -- 2. The Severely Depressed Patient -- 3. The Violent Patient -- 4. The Acutely Anxious Patient -- 5. Mania -- 6. The Delirious Patient -- 7. Psychiatric Assessment -- 8. Geriatric Emergencies -- 9. Psychiatric Emergencies Related to Medical Illnesses -- 10. Childhood and Adolescent Emergencies -- 11. Psychiatric Aspects of Seizure Disorders -- 12. Schizophrenia and the Acutely Psychotic Patient -- 13. Personality Disorders and Psychiatric Emergencies -- 14. Victims of Abuse -- 15. Disasters and Extreme Traumas -- 16. Crisis Intervention and Debriefing -- 17. Drug and Alcohol Emergencies -- 18. Emergent Medications and Psychopharmacological Adverse Effects -- 19. Factitious Disorders/ Malingering / Drug-Seeking Behaviors -- 20. Medicolegal Aspects of Emergency Psychiatry -- 21. Spirituality.
Crisis intervention / H.R. Khouzam -- Assessment of psychiatric emergencies / D.T. Tan -- Medications for psychiatric emergencies / D.T. Tan -- Emergency psychiatric manifestations of medical conditions / H.R. Khouzam -- The delirious patient / T.S. Gill -- The suicidal patient / H.R. Khouzam, T.S. Gill, D.T. Tan -- The severely depressed patient / T.S. Gill -- The acutely manic patient / H.R. Khouzam -- The violent patient / T.S. Gill -- The acutely psychotic patient / D.T. Tan -- The acutely anxious patient / D.T. Tan -- The personality-disordered patient / D.T. Tan -- The chronically somatizing patient / D.T. Tan -- The alcohol-dependent patient and related emergencies / T.S. Gill -- The drug-abusing patient and related emergencies / T.S. Gill.
Psychiatric aspects of seizure disorders / T.S. Gill -- The geriatric patient / H.R. Khouzam -- Child and adolescent psychiatric emergencies / T.S. Gill -- Victims of domestic abuse and rape / H.R. Khouzam -- The patient with posttraumatic stress disorder / H.R. Khouzam, T.S. Gill, D.T. Tan -- Emergency psychiatric care of survivors of natural disasters and terrorism / H.R. Khouzam -- Emergency psychiatry and medications / T.S. Gill -- Medical and legal aspects of emergency psychiatry / H.R. Khouzam -- Religious and spiritual dimensions of psychiatric emergencies / H.R. Khouzam -- Psychiatric emergencies not otherwise classified / T.S. Gill.
Hani Raoul Khouzam, Doris Tiu Tan, Tirath Singh Gill.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Crisis intervention (Mental health services)
Intervention en situation de crise (Santé mentale)
112257:112345 Elsevier Science & Technology