Emergency Department Handbook: Children and Adolescents with Mental Health Problems
Edited by Tony Kaplan
This practical handbook covers everything a
practitioner needs to know about dealing with children and
adolescents who present in an emergency department with mental
health problems. It provides an easily accessible framework of
knowledge on child and adolescent mental health, with
comprehensive, easy-to follow guidance.
The book includes contributions from
professionals across a range of disciplines: paediatrics, child and
adolescent psychiatry, liaison psychiatry, emergency medicine, and
social care. The authors clarify the roles and responsibilities of
every professional involved in the care of young patients and their
families in a very vulnerable and potentially frightening
situation.
The subjects covered include:
- Understanding child and adolescent mental
health problems.
- Their social and developmental contexts.
- The management of common mental health
problems in this age group.
- Carrying out balanced risk assessments.
- Liaison with social services and the role of
other agencies.
- The legal context.
- Confidentiality and child protection.
- Diversity issues.
Readership
The book is intended for psychiatrists at all
levels dealing with young people, paediatricians and emergency
department clinicians, teachers and trainers, and the heads of
department, managers and commissioners who work together to provide
effective and efficient services to meet the needs of this
under-served client group.
About the editor:
Tony Kaplan is a Consultant Child and
Adolescent Psychiatrist at the Young People’s Crisis Recovery Unit,
North London, and was Chair of the Royal College of Psychiatrists’
working group on CAMHS in the emergency department.
Contents
1. INTRODUCTION - Tony
Kaplan
2. CONTEXTUAL FACTORS IN
ASSESSING CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS - Helen Stuart
3. EMERGENCY ASSESSMENT
AND CRISIS INTERVENTION - Tony Kaplan
4. CHILD AND ADOLESCENT
MENTAL HEALTH PRESENTATIONS IN THE EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT - Josie
Brown
5. SELF-HARM: ISSUES,
ASSESSMENT AND INTERVENTION - Tony Kaplan
6. VIOLENCE AND EXTREME
BEHAVIOUR - Lois Colling and Eric Taylor
7. CONSENT, CAPACITY AND
THE LAW - Mary Mitchell
8. CHILD ABUSE AND CHILD
PROTECTION - Tricia Brennan
9. CULTURAL DIVERSITY AND MENTAL
HEALTH PROBLEMS - Begum Maitra
10. SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS
- Tony Kaplan
11. CONFIDENTIALITY AND
INFORMATION-SHARING - Tony Kaplan and Tricia Brennan
12. PRACTITIONERS AND PATHWAYS: A COMPETENCY
FRAMEWORK - Tony Kaplan, Paul Gill, Diana Hulbert, Avril
Washington, Ian Maconochie and Annie Souter
13. ISSUES FOR DEPARTMENT
HEADS AND MANAGERS - Tony Kaplan
APPENDICES:
I. Recommendations of the Joint Colleges Working Group on
CAMHS in the emergency department - Tony Kaplan
II. Mental state examination checklist -
Tony Kaplan
III. Mental Health Act 2007: brief
guide
IV. Ten essential shared competencies for
mental health practice
V. Protocols
VI. Emergency department mental health
risk assessment tool - Diana Hulbert