Emergency department handbook : children and adolescents with mental health problems
Emergency department handbook : children and adolescents with mental health problems
- London : RCPsych Publications, 2009
- xii, 193p.
- Book
This book is a practical handbook to everything a practitioner needs to know about dealing with children and young people with mental health problems who present in an emergency department. It provides an easily accessible framework of knowledge on child and adolescent mental health problems and what to do about them. Clinical examples are used throughout and comprehensive, easy to follow guidance is given. The subjects covered include: safeguarding; confidentiality and diversity; understanding the family, social, developmental and legal contexts, understanding the problems holistically; carrying out balanced risk assessments; 'being' therapeutic; service organisation and resourcing; and, quality standards and competencies.
9781904671732
Emergency medicine
Child psychiatry
Adolescent psychiatry
Mental health services
WS 350.
This book is a practical handbook to everything a practitioner needs to know about dealing with children and young people with mental health problems who present in an emergency department. It provides an easily accessible framework of knowledge on child and adolescent mental health problems and what to do about them. Clinical examples are used throughout and comprehensive, easy to follow guidance is given. The subjects covered include: safeguarding; confidentiality and diversity; understanding the family, social, developmental and legal contexts, understanding the problems holistically; carrying out balanced risk assessments; 'being' therapeutic; service organisation and resourcing; and, quality standards and competencies.
9781904671732
Emergency medicine
Child psychiatry
Adolescent psychiatry
Mental health services
WS 350.