Emergency Psychiatry

I. Emergency Care: An Overview.- I. The Concept of Emergency Care.- II. The Process of Emergency Care.- 2. The First Few Minutes: Identifying and Managing Life-Threatening Emergencies.- 3. Legal Issues in a Psychiatric Emergency Setting.- 4. General Principles of Pharmacologic Management in the Emergency Setting.- 5. The Therapeutic Stance.- III. Patients and Clinical Syndromes 1: Potentially Life-Threatening.- 6. Emergency Management of Potentially Violent Patients.- 7. Emergency Care of Suicidal Patients.- IV. Patients and Clinical Syndromes 2: Medication-Related/Toxic Origins.- 8. Alcohol Use and Abuse.- 9. Drug Use and Abuse.- 10. Emergency Presentations Related to Psychiatric Medication.- V. Patients and Clinical Syndromes 3: Behavioral, Cognitive, and Affective Disturbances.- 11. Acute Psychoses.- 12. Presentation of Depression in an Emergency Setting.- 13. Emergency Care of Anxious Patients.- VI. Patients and Clinical Syndromes 4: Victims of Situational Crises.- 14. Psychological Management of Disaster Victims.- 15. Emergency Care of Rape Victims.- 16. Emergency Care of Battered Women.- 17. Child Abuse and Neglect.- VII. Patients and Clinical Syndromes 5: Special Populations.- 18. Psychiatric Emergencies in Children and Adolescents.- 19. Elderly Psychiatric Emergency Patients.- VIII. Special Settings, Circumstances, and Approaches.- 20. Managing Emergencies in the Practice of Psychotherapy.- 21. General Hospital Psychiatric Emergency Services.- 22. Psychiatric Emergency Care in Resource-Poor Areas.- 23. Psychiatric Home Visiting Services.- 24. The Telephone in Psychiatric Emergencies.- 25. Role of Family and Networks in Emergency Psychotherapy.- 26. Crisis Groups.