Behavioral Emergencies, An Issue of Psychiatric Clinics of North America: Volume 40-3

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.

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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