Main description:

This issue of Psychiatric Clinics of North America, edited by Drs. Nidal Moukaddam, Veronica Tucci, will cover a wide arrange of topics in Behavioral Emergencies. Topics discussed in the issue include, but are not limited to: Medical Clearance of the Emergency Psychiatric Patient; Altered Mental State, Legal and Ethical Challenges in Emergency Psychiatry; Countertransference in the Clinical Setting; The Use of Psychotherapeutic Measures; Drugs of Abuse; Toxicological Emergencies in Patients With Mental Illness; Management of Depression and Suicidality in the Emergency Department; Special Considerations in the Pediatric Psychiatric Populations; Dementia and Special Considerations in the Geriatric Psychiatric Patient; The Changing Health Policy Environment and Behavioral Health Services Delivery; International Emergency Psychiatry Challenges; and Violence in the Emergency Department, among others.

Contents:

Psychiatric Clinics of North America

Behavioral Emergencies

Preface: Emergency Psychiatry: Ten Years Later

Evaluation of Depression and Suicidal Patients in the Emergency Room

Difficult Patients in the Emergency Department: Personality Disorders and Beyond

A Modern-Day Fight Club? The Stabilization and Management of Acutely Agitated Patients in the Emergency Department

Emergency Department Medical Clearance of Patients with Psychiatric or Behavioral Emergencies, Part 1

Emergency Department Medical Clearance of Patients with Psychiatric or Behavioral Emergencies, Part 2: Special Psychiatric Populations and

Considerations

Behavioral Emergencies: Special Considerations in the Pregnant Patient

Behavioral Emergencies: Special Considerations in the Geriatric Psychiatric Patient

Special Considerations in the Pediatric Psychiatric Population

Addictive Disorders in Adolescents

Intensive Care and Its Discontents: Psychiatric Illness in the Critically Ill

Drugs of Abuse

Toxicologic Emergencies in Patients with Mental Illness: When Medications Are No Longer Your Friends

The Changing Health Policy Environment and Behavioral Health Services Delivery

Legal and Ethical Challenges, Part 1: General Population

Legal and Ethical Challenges in Emergency Psychiatry, Part 2: Management of Inmates

International Emergency Psychiatry Challenges: Disaster Medicine, War, Human Trafficking, Displaced Persons

Violence in the Emergency Department: A Global Problem

Highlight in Telepsychiatry and Behavioral Health Emergencies