Comprehensive Emergency Mental Health Care - Hardcover

Zealberg, Joseph J.; Santos, Alberto B.; Puckett, Jackie A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393702243 ISBN 13: 9780393702248

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1996

Synopsis

Describes a unique approach to mental health care that brings treatment to the patient in crisis, based on the authors' crisis intervention model pioneered in South Carolina. Outlines mobile emergency mental health services and treatment techniques, and discusses legal, ethical, and security issues. Includes a crash course in medical psychiatry for the nonphysician, reviewing the DSM-IV system and psychopharmacological treatment. For physicians, social workers, nurses, and psychologists, Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

About this title

About the Author:

Joseph J. Zealberg, M.D., is on the faculty of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston.

Review:

This very readable, practical book presents an excellent outline of emergency behavioral health services....[T]his book brings order and optimism where there so often can be chaos. Front-line staff need training and support. Administrative organization must be logical and accessible. The services should have a sense of overall mission as well as day-to-day goals to focus the work. Drs. Zealberg and Santos have faced these challenges and given us a guidebook that can be useful to those in training, in practice, and in management. -- Psychiatric Services, Donna M. Moores, M.D., July 1998, 49/7

About this edition

• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0393702243
• ISBN 13: 9780393702248
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 290