Psychiatric Emergencies: Caring for People in Crisis
Objectives:
- Discuss the characteristics of crises as they apply to psychiatric emergencies.
- Explain triage considerations for people in crisis.
- Identify legal and ethical issues of concern to caregivers of people in crisis.
- Summarize the care of people in crisis with mood-related emergencies.
- Explain the relationship of anxiety to fear in anxiety-wrought crises.
- Review the management of anger-generated violence.
- Describe symptoms displayed by people in crisis with substance use disorders.
- Discuss crisis intervention for the severely mental ill.
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