TY - BOOK AU - Kaplan,Tony TI - Emergency department handbook : : children and adolescents with mental health problems SN - 9781904671732 PY - 2009/// CY - London PB - RCPsych Publications KW - Emergency medicine KW - Child psychiatry KW - Adolescent psychiatry KW - Mental health services N2 - 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 ER -