Psychiatric intensive care / / edited by M. Dominic Beer, Stephen M. Pereira, Carol Paton ; [foreword by Robert Kerwin].
Significantly expanded and updated from the first edition, this edition of Psychiatric Intensive Care is essential reading for all healthcare professionals and managers involved in the care of the mentally ill patient, particularly in the intensive care environment. It provides practical and evidence-based advice on the management of disturbed and severely ill psychiatric patients in secure hospital settings. New chapters were added covering multidisciplinary team working, and emphasising the interface of psychiatric intensive care with other mental health specialities; specifically, Interface with General Psychiatry, Interface with Learning Difficulties, Interface with the Child and Adolescent, Interface with Substance Misuse, Interface with Social Work, User and Carer Issues, Legal Issues and National Standards and Good Practice in Psychiatric Intensive Care. This book should be read by all mental health team members working with disturbed psychiatric patients on an inpatient basis, as well as by management staff responsible for establishing and running these services.
| Beteiligte Person(en) | , , |
|---|---|
| Ausgabe | Second edition. |
| Ort, Verlag, Jahr |
London
: Greenwich Medical Media
, 2001
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| Umfang | 1 online resource (xvi, 369 pages) : : digital, PDF file(s). |
| ISBN | 1-107-17384-1 1-281-25434-7 9786611254346 0-511-38759-8 0-511-38658-3 0-511-38475-0 0-511-38292-8 0-511-54359-X 0-511-38858-6 |
| Sprache | Englisch |
| Zusatzinfo | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
| Zusatzinfo | Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface to second edition; Preface to first edition; Foreword; Part I Therapeutic interventions; 1 Psychiatric intensive care - development and definition; 2 Management of acutely disturbed behaviour; 3 De-escalation; 4 Rapid tranquillisation; 5 Pharmacological therapy; 6 Psychological approaches to the acute patient; 7 Psychological approaches for longer-term patients; 8 Seclusion - past, present and future; 9 Restraint and physical intervention; 10 The complex needs patient; 11 Therapeutic activities within PICUs and LSUs 12 Risk assessment and managementPart II Interface issues; 13 Provision of intensive care in forensic psychiatry; 14 The interface with forensic services; 15 Learning disability support in PICUs and LSUs; 16 The interface with general psychiatric services; 17 The interface with the CAMHS; 18 Severe mental illness and substance abuse; 19 Social work issues in PICUs and LSUs; 20 User and carer involvement; Part III Management of the Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit/Low Secure Unit; 21 Setting up a new PICU: principles and practice; 22 Physical environment 23 Managing the Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit24 Multidisciplinary teams within PICUs/LSUs; 25 National Standards and good practice; Index |
| Zusatzinfo | English |
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