This issue of Psychiatric Clinics of North America, edited by Drs. Nidal Moukaddam, Veronica Tucci, will cover a wide arrange of topics in Behavioral Emergencies. Topics discussed in the issue include, but are not limited to: Medical Clearance of the Emergency Psychiatric Patient; Altered Mental State, Legal and Ethical Challenges in Emergency Psychiatry; Countertransference in the Clinical Setting; The Use of Psychotherapeutic Measures; Drugs of Abuse; Toxicological Emergencies in Patients With Mental Illness; Management of Depression and Suicidality in the Emergency Department; Special Considerations in the Pediatric Psychiatric Populations; Dementia and Special Considerations in the Geriatric Psychiatric Patient; The Changing Health Policy Environment and Behavioral Health Services Delivery; International Emergency Psychiatry Challenges; and Violence in the Emergency Department, among others.
1. Cover image - p. i 2. Title page - p. i 3. Table of Contents - p. i 4. Copyright - p. ii 5. Contributors - p. iii 6. Forthcoming Issues - p. xii 7. Preface - p. xiii 8. Evaluation of Depression and Suicidal Patients in the Emergency Room - p. 363 9. Difficult Patients in the Emergency Department: Personality Disorders and Beyond - p. 379 10. A Modern-Day Fight Club? The Stabilization and Management of Acutely Agitated Patients in the Emergency Department - p. 397 11. Emergency Department Medical Clearance of Patients with Psychiatric or Behavioral Emergencies, Part 1 - p. 411 12. Emergency Department Medical Clearance of Patients with Psychiatric or Behavioral Emergencies, Part 2: Special Psychiatric Populations and Considerations - p. 425 13. Behavioral Emergencies: Special Considerations in the Pregnant Patient - p. 435 14. Behavioral Emergencies: Special Considerations in the Geriatric Psychiatric Patient - p. 449 15. Special Considerations in the Pediatric Psychiatric Population - p. 463 16. Addictive Disorders in Adolescents - p. 475 17. Intensive Care and its Discontents: Psychiatric Illness in the Critically Ill - p. 487 18. Drugs of Abuse - p. 501 19. Toxicologic Emergencies in Patients with Mental Illness: When Medications Are No Longer Your Friends - p. 519 20. The Changing Health Policy Environment and Behavioral Health Services Delivery - p. 533 21. Legal and Ethical Challenges, Part 1: General Population - p. 541 22. Legal and Ethical Challenges in Emergency Psychiatry, Part 2: Management of Inmates - p. 555 23. International Emergency Psychiatry Challenges: Disaster Medicine, War, Human Trafficking, Displaced Persons - p. 565 24. Violence in the Emergency Department: A Global Problem - p. 575 25. Highlight in Telepsychiatry and Behavioral Health Emergencies - p. 585
This issue of Psychiatric Clinics of North America, edited by Drs. Nidal Moukaddam, Veronica Tucci, will cover a wide arrange of topics in Behavioral Emergencies. Topics discussed in the issue include, but are not limited to: Medical Clearance of the Emergency Psychiatric Patient; Altered Mental State, Legal and Ethical Challenges in Emergency Psychiatry; Countertransference in the Clinical Setting; The Use of Psychotherapeutic Measures; Drugs of Abuse; Toxicological Emergencies in Patients With Mental Illness; Management of Depression and Suicidality in the Emergency Department; Special Considerations in the Pediatric Psychiatric Populations; Dementia and Special Considerations in the Geriatric Psychiatric Patient; The Changing Health Policy Environment and Behavioral Health Services Delivery; International Emergency Psychiatry Challenges; and Violence in the Emergency Department, among others.
1. Cover image - p. i 2. Title page - p. i 3. Table of Contents - p. i 4. Copyright - p. ii 5. Contributors - p. iii 6. Forthcoming Issues - p. xii 7. Preface - p. xiii 8. Evaluation of Depression and Suicidal Patients in the Emergency Room - p. 363 9. Difficult Patients in the Emergency Department: Personality Disorders and Beyond - p. 379 10. A Modern-Day Fight Club? The Stabilization and Management of Acutely Agitated Patients in the Emergency Department - p. 397 11. Emergency Department Medical Clearance of Patients with Psychiatric or Behavioral Emergencies, Part 1 - p. 411 12. Emergency Department Medical Clearance of Patients with Psychiatric or Behavioral Emergencies, Part 2: Special Psychiatric Populations and Considerations - p. 425 13. Behavioral Emergencies: Special Considerations in the Pregnant Patient - p. 435 14. Behavioral Emergencies: Special Considerations in the Geriatric Psychiatric Patient - p. 449 15. Special Considerations in the Pediatric Psychiatric Population - p. 463 16. Addictive Disorders in Adolescents - p. 475 17. Intensive Care and its Discontents: Psychiatric Illness in the Critically Ill - p. 487 18. Drugs of Abuse - p. 501 19. Toxicologic Emergencies in Patients with Mental Illness: When Medications Are No Longer Your Friends - p. 519 20. The Changing Health Policy Environment and Behavioral Health Services Delivery - p. 533 21. Legal and Ethical Challenges, Part 1: General Population - p. 541 22. Legal and Ethical Challenges in Emergency Psychiatry, Part 2: Management of Inmates - p. 555 23. International Emergency Psychiatry Challenges: Disaster Medicine, War, Human Trafficking, Displaced Persons - p. 565 24. Violence in the Emergency Department: A Global Problem - p. 575 25. Highlight in Telepsychiatry and Behavioral Health Emergencies - p. 585
