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Emergency Department Treatment of the Psychiatric Patient - Policy Issues and Legal Requirements (Hardcover, New)
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Emergency Department Treatment of the Psychiatric Patient - Policy Issues and Legal Requirements (Hardcover, New)
Series: American Psychology-Law Society Series
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Many hospital emergency departments are overcrowded and
short-staffed, with a limited number of available hospital beds. It
is increasingly hard for emergency departments and their staff to
provide the necessary level of care for medical patients. Caring
for people with psychiatric disabilities raises different issues
and calls on different skills.
In Emergency Department Treatment of the Psychiatric Patient, Dr.
Stefan uses research, surveys, and statutory and litigation
materials to examine problems with emergency department care for
clients with psychiatric disorders. She relies on interviews with
emergency department nurses, doctors and psychiatrists, as well as
surveys of people with psychiatric disabilities to present the
perspectives of both the individuals seeking treatment, and those
providing it.
This eye-opening book explores the structural pressures on
emergency departments and identifies the burdens and conflicts that
undermine their efforts to provide compassionate care to people in
psychiatric crisis. In addition to presenting a new analysis of the
source of these problems, Dr. Stefan also suggests an array of
alternatives to emergency department treatment for people in
psychiatric crisis. Moreover, the author proposes standards for
treatment of these individuals when they do inevitably end up in a
hospital emergency department.
Emergency Department Treatment of the Psychiatric Patient presents
a thoughtful and thorough analysis of the difficulties faced by
people with psychiatric disabilities when seeking emergency medical
care. It is essential reading for anyone working in a hospital
emergency department, as well as health care policy makers, and
advocatesand lawyers for people with psychiatric disabilities.
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