
|Poll|December 3, 2015
Mini Quiz: Psychiatric Emergency Assessment of Youths
Author(s)Ruth Gerson, MD, Jennifer Havens, MD
Nearly half of children who present to emergency departments with self-harm receive no mental health assessment. What are the essential elements needed to interview children and adolescents in the context of a psychiatric emergency?
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Which of the following are essential elements of the emergency department (ED) assessment of a child or adolescent with suicidal ideation and/or behaviors?
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