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New edition of a well-written and informative overview to the key issues in psychiatric intensive care.
Provides practical and evidence-based advice on the management of disturbed and severely ill psychiatric patients in secure hospital settings. New chapters have been 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.
Note: orders for this title may take 2-4 weeks to fill.
Contents
• Psychiatric intensive care - development and definition
• Management of acutely disturbed behaviour
• De-escalation
• Rapid tranquilisation
• Pharmacological therapy
• Psychological approaches to the acute patient
• Psychological approaches to longer-term patients presenting with challenging behaviours
• Seclusion
• Restraint and physical intervention
• The complex needs patient
• Therapeutic activities within Psychiatric Intensive Care and Low Secure Units
• Risk assessment and management
• The provision of intensive care in forensic psychiatry
• The interface with forensic services
• Supporting people with learning disabilities on general psychiatric wards, Psychiatric Intensive Care Units and Low Secure Units
• The interface with general psychiatric services
• The interface with Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS)
• Severe mental illness and substance abuse
• Social work issues in Psychiatric Intensive Care Units/Low Secure Units
• User and carer involvement
• Setting up a new Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit: principles and practice
• Physical environment
• Managing the Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit
• Multidisciplinary teams within Psychiatric Intensive Care Units /Low Secure Units
• National standards and good practice
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