Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Fitz-Gerald, Mary Jo[Herausgeber]
• Takeshita, Junji[Herausgeber]

Titel

Models of emergency psychiatric services that work [electronic resource]

Auflage

1st edition

Ort / Verlag

Cham : Springer International Publishing

Erscheinungsjahr

[2020]

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Part I: Models of emergency psychiatry care -- Models of emergency psychiatric care -- Business as usual: emergency rooms with no psychiatric coverage at all -- Psychiatric consultation to the emergency department and co-management model -- Adjacent psychiatric emergency services to the main emergency room -- Crisis stabilization services -- Crisis intervention team -- Alternative models of emergency psychiatric care: regional emergency psychiatric facilities, freestanding emergency departments, and urgent care centers -- Transition clinic: reducing recidivism -- Part II: So what do I need? -- What physical facilities are needed: the question of medical clearance in emergency psychiatric settings -- Administration in emergency psychiatry -- Nursing staff in psychiatric emergency services -- Safety and security in emergency psychiatry -- Supervision of ancillary personnel -- Financial considerations for emergency psychiatry services -- Telepsychiatry -- Identifying and understanding legal aspects of emergency psychiatry unique to different jurisdictions -- Special populations in psychiatric emergency services: children and adolescents -- Special populations in psychiatric emergency services: the geriatric patient -- Special populations in psychiatric emergency care: forensic patients -- Part III: Selected international models of psychiatric emergency care -- International models of psychiatric care: Canada -- International models of psychiatric care: United Kingdom -- International models of psychiatric care: the Republic of Serbia -- International models of psychiatric care: the State of Qatar -- International models of psychiatric care: Pakistan.
• This book describes a spectrum of possible solutions to providing comprehensive emergency psychiatric care. It discusses in detail all components of emergency psychiatric care, such as triage, security, management of suicide risk, violent patients, interdisciplinary treatment teams, administration, and telepsychiatry. It has been written by and is of interest to psychiatrists, emergency medicine physicians, nurses, social workers, administrators, the police and security staff.