Brief, handy, and affordable, this primer for crisis workers distills the practice of Crisis Intervention into its basic elements. Invaluable as a tool for easy reference, the authors offer straightforward guidelines appropriate for experienced professionals and novice helpers alike. Easy to access and easy to use, the handbook is ideal for those ...
Argues that many episodes of transformational crisis have been misdiagnosed as mental illness, and explains how to use such a crisis for spiritual development.
This is a quick reference book for the management of psychiatric medical emergencies. The book is aimed at practicing psychiatrists, residents, students, social workers, nurses and any other mental health professsional in the accident and emergency department
For nine eventful years, Dr. Holland was the weekend physician in charge of Bellevue Hospital's psychiatric emergency room. In an absorbing memoir, Holland recounts stories from her vast case files that are alternately terrifying, tragically comic, and profoundly moving.
This handbook is a practical, quick-reference guide to the evaluation and management of acute psychiatric symptoms seen in emergency departments and inpatient psychiatric and medical-surgical units. The book presents a step-by-step approach to each symptom, beginning with a list of questions necessary for initial assessment and proceeding to ...
This edition of this manual contains facts and advice for clinicians on the effective management of psychiatric emergencies. Presenting complete differential diagnoses and principles of management for the full range of psychiatric crises, the manual is organized into five concise parts: fundamental topics in emergency psychiatry; special problems ...
Significantly expanded and updated from the first edition Psychiatric Intensive Care is essential reading for all healthcare professionals and managers involved in the care of the mentally ill patient, particularly in the intensive care environment. It provides practical and evidence-based advice on the management of disturbed and severely ill ...
A guide to managing psychiatric and substance abuse emergencies in a full range of psychiatric settings. Guideliness for crisis stabilization and emergency psychopharmacotherapy are presented in practical, clinical terms. This edition features new sections on quality-assurance monitors and up-dated references in emergency psychiatry and ...
This book provides a comprehensive overview of our understanding about the provision of emergency mental health services in an era of community-orientated care. Major research findings and theoretical models which will shape future services are described and illustrated by detailed descriptions of successful services both from Europe and North ...
This study presents a view of emergency services in which the clinician serves as a strong advocate for the patient while providing comprehensive evaluation, immediate crisis resolution and quick access to mental health services. This flexible and accessible approach is claimed to be dramatically improving the treatment of disturbed people, ...
Focusing on acute clinical situations in which there is an imminent risk of serious harm or death to self or others, this practical resource helps clinicians evaluate and manage a wide range of mental health emergencies. Authors examine how to distinguish crises that are emergencies from those that are not, and provide basic instruction in crisis ...
Featuring useful new psychotherapeutic interventions and pharmacologic agents, this unique reference is the only resource focused on the emergency management of the acutely ill psychiatric patient. Conveying the experience and authority of one of the world's leading departments in psychiatry and emergency medicine, "Emergency Psychiatry" offers ...
Field Guide for Psychological Emergencies is a quick reference source for rapid intervention and mitigation of psychologically-based field emergencies. The guide provides a user-friendly, cross-referenced, pragmatic reference guide to a variety of psychological maladies that are encountered by emergency services personnel and a variety of other ...
Emergencies in Psychiatry provides a practical and problem-orientated accessible guide for those who have to deal with psychiatric emergencies. This book contains guidance on how to assess and manage these emergencies and how to manoeuvre successfully though the practical difficulties that may arise, whilst also avoiding medical, psychiatric, and ...
This text was developed as a manual for those employed in the emergency services (ESP), those who deal with victims of trauma in the workplace, work in school systems or acute psychiatric settings, provide assistance to ESP, or who are employed in other settings where persons may experience trauma. The book can also be used by mental health ...
Increasing numbers of people involved in personal transformation are experiencing spiritual emergency--a crisis that occurs when the process of growth and change becomes chaotic and overwhelming. Rather than attributing this crisis to mental illness, the authors maintain that such episodes have profound healing potential, when properly understood.
A guide to the psychiatric problems readers are likely to encounter while on call. It provides the information needed to make sound, confidant decisions. Introductory chapters cover the diagnosis and management of on call problems, as well as the special considerations of psychiatric patients and their problems. Part Two covers psychiatric ...
This accessible guide covers the management of a range of psychiatric problems encountered in emergency departments. Arranged by symptom rather than diagnosis, the handbook describes assessment, investigation and treatment. The authors include an introductory section on eliciting and recording the psychiatric history of a patient. They then ...
An explanation of the causes, dynamics and potential benefits of life's transformative events or "spiritual emergencies" which can trigger emotional or psychic reactions ranging from near-death experiences, ESP, visions, and profound religious experiences. Because one's view of reality changes drastically when having these experiences, the ...
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