Emergencies in Mental Health Practice: Evaluation and Management

Book Overview

This practical resource helps clinicians evaluate and manage a wide range of mental health emergencies. The focus is on acute clinical situations in which there is imminent risk of serious harm or death to self or others. Authors examine how to distinguish emergencies from nonemergencies, and review the basics of crisis intervention and emergency interviewing. Guidelines are presented for intervening with suicidal patients, potentially violent patients,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1572305517
• ISBN13: 9781572305519
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Guilford Publications
• Length: 450 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.2"