Responding to Psychological Emergencies A Field Guide

by Thomas, Jeffrey A.; Woodall, S. Joseph

• ISBN13: 9781401878078
• ISBN10: 1401878075
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-12-22
• Publisher: CENGAGE Delmar Learning

Summary

Responding to Psychological Emergencies: A Field Guide is a quick reference source for rapid intervention and mitigation of psychologically based emergencies. The guide provides a user-friendly, cross-referenced, pragmatic reference guide to a variety of psychological maladies that are encountered by those delivering services in emergency situations. The field guide furnishes you with the tools and information that enhance service delivery through successful assessment, intervention and reporting of a host of issues. With information on a number of quality assessment tools, descriptions of psychological disorders, medications and medication interactions, drugs of abuse and reporting strategies, you have access to vital information and intervention strategies that will enable you to render a higher standard of care. The field guide also provides foundational knowledge in the area of psychological emergencies.

Table of Contents

Goals

Using this guide

Approaching patients

(Color Code Red)

Mood Disorders

Psychotic Disorders

Cognitive Disorders

Anxiety Disorders

Substance Abuse Disorders

Suicide

Child & Adolescent Disorders

Stress Related Disorders

Personality Disorders

Physical Symptoms & Psychological Factors

Medications (Color Code Blue)

Anti-Psychotic Medications

Mood Stabilizers

Anti-Depressants

Anti-Anxiety

Anti-Cholinergice

Psychostimulants

Anti-Hypertensives

Emotional First Aid (Color Code Green)

Brief Mental Status Exam

Lethality Assessment

Brief Medical History

Brief Psychological History

Crisis Intervention

Glossary

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