دانلود کتاب Emergency department handbook: children and adolescents with mental health problems

A practical handbook to everything a practitioner needs to know about dealing with children and young people who visit an emergency department with mental health problems. Provides accessible knowledge on child and adolescent mental health problems and what to do about them. Clinical examples and comprehensive, easy to follow guidance are given throughout. Will help all practitioners working in A&E to provide a better service to patients by improving their understanding and skills related to young people s mental health. Subjects covered include: confidentiality; understanding the family; developmental and legal contexts; 'being' therapeutic; carrying out balanced risk assessments; service organisation and resourcing. Readership All healthcare professionals working in emergency medicine. Plus, junior doctors in both psychiatry and paediatrics (who are often the first out-of-hours port-of-call).Table Of Contents 1. INTRODUCTION 2. CONTEXTS FOR THE ASSESSMENT OF CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS 3. EMERGENCY ASSESSMENT AND CRISIS INTERVENTION 4. CHILD AND ADOLESCENT MENTAL HEALTH PRESENTATIONS IN THE EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT 5. SELF-HARM: ISSUES, ASSESSMENT AND INTERVENTION 6. DEALING WITH VIOLENCE AND SERIOUS BEHAVIOURAL DISTURBANCE RESTRAINING CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE: GUIDELINES RAPID TRANQUILLISATION GUIDELINES 7. CONSENT, CAPACITY AND THE LAW 8. CHILD ABUSE AND CHILD PROTECTION 9. CULTURAL DIVERSITY AND MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS IN CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE 10. SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS 11. CONFIDENTIALITY AND INFORMATION-SHARING 12. PRACTITIONERS AND PATHWAYS: A COMPETENCY FRAMEWORK 13. ISSUES FOR DEPARTMENT HEADS AND MANAGERS APPENDICES 1.