Mental Health in Emergency Care takes a practical, scenario-based approach to help students and recent graduates hone their knowledge and skills to address the mental health needs of people presenting to emergency care settings.
Featuring typical presentations across community, pre-hospital and hospital contexts, the scenarios demonstrate how clinicians can identify underlying mental health issues that can often go undetected and contribute to poor health outcomes.
Mental Health in Emergency Care 1e provides a framework for thinking about mental health in emergency settings, and how to develop mental health knowledge and skills that can be applied in order to provide more holistic care to all patients.
1. 1. Introduction to mental health in emergency care - p. x 2. 2. Mental health triage in emergency settings - p. 18 3. 3. Practice setting scenarios - p. 40 4. Introduction - p. 40 5. Integrating mental health across the service spectrum – stepped care - p. 41 6. Effective practice in emergency care settings - p. 45 7. Orientation to the practice-based scenarios - p. 47 8. Summary - p. 50 9. Useful websites - p. 50 10. References - p. 50 11. 3.1 Supporting the social and emotional wellbeing of aboriginal and torres strait islander peoples presenting with mental health concerns - p. 50 12. 3.2 Assessing and responding to people with co-occurring mental health and substance use concerns - p. 72 13. 3.3 Assessing and responding to children and young people experiencing mental health concerns - p. 92 14. 3.4 Working with families of people experiencing mental illness or distress - p. 110 15. 3.5 Assessing and responding to an older person presenting with confusion, agitation and delirium - p. 120 16. 3.6 Assessing and responding to someone who presents following intentional self-harm - p. 130 17. 3.7 Assessing and responding to someone who presents with suicidal behaviour - p. 144 18. 3.8 Assessing and responding to someone presenting with panic - p. 154 19. 3.9 Assessing and responding to someone presenting with an eating disorder - p. 162 20. 3.10 Assessment and management considerations working with women experiencing a mental health perinatal emergency in remote Australia - p. 174 21. 3.11 Assessment and management considerations working with someone experiencing psychosis in a pacer team community setting - p. 186 22. 3.12 Assessment and management considerations working with people presenting with mood disorder in the pre-hospital (paramedic) practice setting - p. 200 23. 3.13 Assessment and management considerations for supporting asylum seekers and refugees - p. 214 24. 3.14 Supporting resilience and providing psychological first aid when working in disaster settings as a first responder - p. 226 25. 4. Self-care for working in emergency care settings - p. 242 26. Index - p. 265
Mental Health in Emergency Care takes a practical, scenario-based approach to help students and recent graduates hone their knowledge and skills to address the mental health needs of people presenting to emergency care settings.
Featuring typical presentations across community, pre-hospital and hospital contexts, the scenarios demonstrate how clinicians can identify underlying mental health issues that can often go undetected and contribute to poor health outcomes.
Mental Health in Emergency Care 1e provides a framework for thinking about mental health in emergency settings, and how to develop mental health knowledge and skills that can be applied in order to provide more holistic care to all patients.
1. 1. Introduction to mental health in emergency care - p. x 2. 2. Mental health triage in emergency settings - p. 18 3. 3. Practice setting scenarios - p. 40 4. Introduction - p. 40 5. Integrating mental health across the service spectrum – stepped care - p. 41 6. Effective practice in emergency care settings - p. 45 7. Orientation to the practice-based scenarios - p. 47 8. Summary - p. 50 9. Useful websites - p. 50 10. References - p. 50 11. 3.1 Supporting the social and emotional wellbeing of aboriginal and torres strait islander peoples presenting with mental health concerns - p. 50 12. 3.2 Assessing and responding to people with co-occurring mental health and substance use concerns - p. 72 13. 3.3 Assessing and responding to children and young people experiencing mental health concerns - p. 92 14. 3.4 Working with families of people experiencing mental illness or distress - p. 110 15. 3.5 Assessing and responding to an older person presenting with confusion, agitation and delirium - p. 120 16. 3.6 Assessing and responding to someone who presents following intentional self-harm - p. 130 17. 3.7 Assessing and responding to someone who presents with suicidal behaviour - p. 144 18. 3.8 Assessing and responding to someone presenting with panic - p. 154 19. 3.9 Assessing and responding to someone presenting with an eating disorder - p. 162 20. 3.10 Assessment and management considerations working with women experiencing a mental health perinatal emergency in remote Australia - p. 174 21. 3.11 Assessment and management considerations working with someone experiencing psychosis in a pacer team community setting - p. 186 22. 3.12 Assessment and management considerations working with people presenting with mood disorder in the pre-hospital (paramedic) practice setting - p. 200 23. 3.13 Assessment and management considerations for supporting asylum seekers and refugees - p. 214 24. 3.14 Supporting resilience and providing psychological first aid when working in disaster settings as a first responder - p. 226 25. 4. Self-care for working in emergency care settings - p. 242 26. Index - p. 265
