Behavioral Emergencies

Behavioral Emergencies Synopsis

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