Helping Kids in Crisis: Managing Psychiatric Emergencies in
Children and Adolescents provides expert guidance to practitioners
responding to high-stakes situations, such as children considering
or attempting suicide, cutting or injuring themselves purposely,
and becoming aggressive or violently destructive. Children
experiencing behavioral crises frequently reach critical states in
venues that were not designed to respond to or support them-in
school, for example, or at home among their highly stressed and
confused families. Professionals who provide services to these
children must be able to quickly determine threats to safety and
initiate interventions to deescalate behaviors, often with limited
resources. The editors and authors have extensive experience at one
of the busiest and best regional referral centers for children with
psychiatric emergencies, and have deftly translated their expertise
into this symptom-based guide to help non-psychiatric clinicians
more effectively and compassionately care for this challenging
population. The book is designed for ease of use and its structure
and features are helpful and supportive: * The book is written for
practitioners in hospital or community-based settings, including
physicians in training, pediatricians who work in office-based or
emergency settings, psychologists, social workers, school
psychologists, guidance counselors, and school nurses-professionals
for whom child psychiatric resources are few.* Clear risk and
diagnostic assessment tools allow clinicians working in settings
without access to child mental health professionals to think like
trained emergency room child psychiatrists-from evaluation to
treatment. * The content is symptom-focused, enabling readers to
swiftly identify the appropriate chapter, with decision trees and
easy-to-read tables to use for quick de-escalation and risk
assessment. * A guide to navigating the educational system, child
welfare system, and other systems of care helps clinicians to
identify and overcome systems-level barriers to obtain necessary
treatment for their patients.* Finally, the book provides an
extensive review of successful models of emergency psychiatric care
from across the country to assist clinicians and hospital
administrators in program design. An abundance of case examples of
common emergency symptoms or behaviors provides professionals with
critical, concrete tools for diagnostic evaluation, risk
assessment, decision making, de-escalation, and safety planning.
Helping Kids in Crisis: Managing Psychiatric Emergencies in
Children and Adolescents is a vital resource for clinicians facing
high-risk challenges on the front lines to help them intervene
effectively, relieve suffering, and keep their young patients safe.
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