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Behavioral Emergencies for Healthcare Providers

  • Written by experts in the field of psychiatry

  • Outlines the use of state-of-the-art, evidence-based psychiatric interventions for medical illness in the emergency setting

  • Includes expanded chapters telepsychiatry, risk management, cultural concerns, and community resources

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Table of contents (47 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
  2. General Considerations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
  3. Evaluation of the Psychiatric Patient

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 27-27
    2. The Modern Emergency Psychiatry Interview

      • Jon S. Berlin
      Pages 39-47
    3. General Management of the Poisoned Patient

      • Bryan Corbett
      Pages 49-57
    4. Drug Intoxication in the Emergency Department

      • Jagoda Pasic, Margaret A. Cashman
      Pages 59-74
  4. Psychiatric Illnesses

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75
    2. Co-occurring Substance-Use Disorder in the Emergency Department

      • Scott A. Simpson, Julie Taub
      Pages 77-88
    3. Depression in the Emergency Department

      • David Hoyer
      Pages 89-93
    4. Post-traumatic Stress Disorder in the Emergency Department

      • Anna K. McDowell, Scott A. Simpson
      Pages 123-129
    5. Psychosis in the Emergency Department

      • Abigail Dahan
      Pages 131-139
    6. Personality Disorders in the Emergency Department

      • Ashley Curry, Megan Riddle
      Pages 141-150
  5. Medical Illnesses in Psychiatric Patients

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 157-157
    2. The Patient with Delirium and Dementia in the Emergency Department

      • Samidha Tripathi, Kristen Baker, Carly Eastin
      Pages 159-165

About this book

This fully updated second edition focuses on mental illness, both globally and in terms of specific mental-health-related visits encountered in emergency department settings, and provides practical input from physicians experienced with adult emergency psychiatric patients. It covers the pre-hospital setting and advising on evidence-based practice; from collaborating with psychiatric colleagues to establishing a psychiatric service in your emergency department. Potential dilemmas when treating pregnant, geriatric or homeless patients with mental illness are discussed in detail, along with the more challenging behavioral diagnoses such as substance abuse, factitious and personality disorders, delirium, dementia, and PTSD. 

The new edition of Behavioral Emergencies for Healthcare Providers will be an invaluable resource for psychiatrists, psychologists, psychiatric and emergency department nurses, trainee and experienced emergency physicians, and other mental health workers.


Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Emergency Medicine, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science/ The Chicago Medical School, North Chicago, USA

    Leslie S. Zun

  • Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado Anschutz, Aurora, USA

    Kimberly Nordstrom

  • Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, USA

    Michael P. Wilson

About the editors

Leslie S. Zun, MD
Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science
North Chicago, IL 60064


Michael P. Wilson
UAMS
Psychiatric Research Institute 
Little Rock, AR 72205


Kimberly Nordstrom, MD
University of Colorado School of Medicine
Psychiatry 
Aurora, CO 80045



Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Behavioral Emergencies for Healthcare Providers

  • Editors: Leslie S. Zun, Kimberly Nordstrom, Michael P. Wilson

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52520-0

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-52519-4Published: 05 January 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-52520-0Published: 04 January 2021

  • Edition Number: 2

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 492

  • Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 23 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Psychiatry, Emergency Medicine, Clinical Psychology

Buy it now

Buying options

eBook USD 129.00
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  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

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