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Inevitably, some of your patients will need of emergency psychiatric services. These tips will help prepare you and your patients when a crisis unfolds.

Understanding Crisis Services: What They Are and When to Access Them

Emergency Psychiatry: Principles and Practice has something for everyone and is easily applicable to emergency and primary care.

Two Perspectives: Emergency Medicine and Psychiatry

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Dr Leslie Zun discusses factors associated with accessing services for patients undergoing psychiatric challenges during the pandemic.

Addressing Behavioral Health Emergencies With COVID-19

Society’s psychological reactions to a crisis can be predicted according to disaster response frameworks, which can be used to understand what to build during the evolving COVID-19 crisis, and when those innovations will prove most vital.

Dear Mental Health Innovators: The COVID-19 Honeymoon Is Almost Over

As hospital-based psychiatric emergency programs around the country demonstrate the ability to minimize ED boarding, provide cost-savings, and improve patient outcomes and clinician satisfaction, the challenge will be how to keep these models of psychiatric care self-supporting.

Hospital-Level Psychiatric Emergency Department Models

This article, the first of a three-part series, describes how hospital-based psychiatric EDs differ from community-based crisis centers.

Hospital-Based Psychiatric Emergency Programs: The Missing Link for Mental Health Systems

This article discusses the peculiarities of emergency psychiatric practice and reviews innovations in models of care delivery designed to overcome the challenges of this subspecialty.

Necessity Is the Mother of Invention: Emergency Psychiatry’s Era of Innovation

If an appropriate treatment is started promptly, the majority of psychiatric emergencies can be resolved within 24 hours without inpatient hospitalization.

What Psychiatrists Need to Know: Patients in the Emergency Department

What are the symptoms and treatment strategies for this rapidly growing phenomenon in older adults?

Post-Intensive Care Syndrome: Recognizing the Critical Need for Psychiatric Care

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In the emergency department, how should patients with behavioral disturbances and especially those with illnesses such as dementia, TBI, autism spectrum disorder, and intellectual disability be managed? Take the quiz and learn more.

Psychiatric Emergencies

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