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: GUIDELINESRAPID 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. RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE JOINT COLLEGES' WORKING GROUP ON CAMHS IN THE EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT
2. PROTOCOLS AND SOME EXAMPLES OF GOOD PRACTICE IDEAS AND SERVICE ARRANGEMENTS
3. THE TEN ESSENTIAL SHARED CAPABILITIES FOR MENTAL HEALTH PRACTICE
4. EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT MENTAL HEALTH RISK ASSESSMENT TOOL: AN EXAMPLE - Diana Hulbert
5. MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION CHECKLIST - Tony Kaplan
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