Textbook of hospital psychiatry / edited by Steven S. Sharfstein ; with deputy editors Faith Budington Dickerson and John M. Oldham.

Other author Sharfstein, Steven S. (Steven Samuel), 1942-
Other author Dickerson, Faith B.
Other author Oldham, John M.
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoWashington, DC : American Psychiatric Pub., ©2009.
Descriptionxxi, 506 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Subjects
Psychiatric hospital care--United States.
Psychiatric hospitals--United States. --Administration.
Psychiatric Department, Hospital--organization & administration.
Hospitals, Psychiatric--organization & administration.
Mental Disorders--therapy.
Psychology, Medical--organization & administration.

Contents Introduction -- History of hospital psychiatry and lessons learned -- Part 1: Inpatient Practice -- The acute crisis stabilization unit for adults -- Inpatient services for children -- The adolescent unit -- The geriatric unit -- The eating disorder unit -- The trauma disorders unit -- The psychotic disorders unit -- The co-occurring (substance abuse/mental illness) disorders unit -- The adolescent neuropsychiatric unit: developmental disabilities/mental illness -- The ethnic/minority psychiatric inpatient unit -- The forensic unit -- The state hospital -- The veterans administration unit -- Consultation-liaison psychiatry -- Part 2: Special Clinical Issues -- Consumer perspective on psychiatric hospitals -- Working with families of inpatients with serious mental illness -- Improving safety in mental health treatment settings: conflict prevention, violence, and the use of seclusion and restraint -- Inpatient suicide: risk assessment and prevention -- Discharge dilemmas -- Part 3: The Continuum of Care -- Residential care for patients with treatment-resistant psychiatric disorders -- Residential treatment programs -- Hospital-based psychiatric emergency services -- Hospital-based community mental health outpatient services -- Day hospitalization and intensive outpatient care -- Section 4: Structure and Infrastructure -- Administration and leadership of psychiatric hospital systems -- Psychiatrists and psychologists -- Social work and rehabilitation therapies -- The work of psychiatric nurses -- Financing of care -- Risk management and patient safety -- Quality indicators -- Information systems and the electronic medical record -- Design and architecture -- Part 5: The Future of hospital psychiatry -- Hospital psychiatry for the future -- Index.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2008016936
ISBN9781585623228 :
ISBN1585623229

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