Behavioral Emergencies, an Issue of Psychiatric Clinics of North America

This issue of Psychiatric Clinics of North America, edited by Drs. Nidal Moukaddam, Veronica Tucci, will cover a wide arrange of topics in Behavioral Emergencies. Topics discussed in the issue include, but are not limited to: Medical Clearance of the Emergency Psychiatric Patient; Altered Mental State, Legal and Ethical Challenges in Emergency Psychiatry; Countertransference in the Clinical Setting; The Use of Psychotherapeutic Measures; Drugs of Abuse; Toxicological Emergencies in Patients With Mental Illness; Management of Depression and Suicidality in the Emergency Department; Special Considerations in the Pediatric Psychiatric Populations; Dementia and Special Considerations in the Geriatric Psychiatric Patient; The Changing Health Policy Environment and Behavioral Health Services Delivery; International Emergency Psychiatry Challenges; and Violence in the Emergency Department, among others.

Psychiatric Clinics of North America
Behavioral Emergencies
Preface: Emergency Psychiatry: Ten Years Later
Evaluation of Depression and Suicidal Patients in the Emergency Room
Difficult Patients in the Emergency Department: Personality Disorders and Beyond
A Modern-Day Fight Club? The Stabilization and Management of Acutely Agitated Patients in the Emergency Department
Emergency Department Medical Clearance of Patients with Psychiatric or Behavioral Emergencies, Part 1
Emergency Department Medical Clearance of Patients with Psychiatric or Behavioral Emergencies, Part 2: Special Psychiatric Populations and
Considerations
Behavioral Emergencies: Special Considerations in the Pregnant Patient
Behavioral Emergencies: Special Considerations in the Geriatric Psychiatric Patient
Special Considerations in the Pediatric Psychiatric Population
Addictive Disorders in Adolescents
Intensive Care and Its Discontents: Psychiatric Illness in the Critically Ill
Drugs of Abuse
Toxicologic Emergencies in Patients with Mental Illness: When Medications Are No Longer Your Friends
The Changing Health Policy Environment and Behavioral Health Services Delivery
Legal and Ethical Challenges, Part 1: General Population
Legal and Ethical Challenges in Emergency Psychiatry, Part 2: Management of Inmates
International Emergency Psychiatry Challenges: Disaster Medicine, War, Human Trafficking, Displaced Persons
Violence in the Emergency Department: A Global Problem
Highlight in Telepsychiatry and Behavioral Health Emergencies