Suicide by Security Blanket, and Other Stories from the Child Psychiatry Emergency Service: What Happens to Children with Acute Mental Illness (Praeger Series on Contemporary Health & Living)
• Provides a unique and unprecedented discussion of emergency psychiatric care for children in crisis• Offers unique perspectives on specific aspects of emergency child psychiatry, including child development, emerging mental illness, family conflict, and systems of care• Presents an actual story of a child in crisis within each chapter, supplying educational content that is grounded in real life and highly accessible to a wide range of readers• Supplies insights from psychiatrists with decades of combined experience treating children on the front lines"These tales are riveting. In the book's introduction, Praeger acknowledges a fascination with the children's stories. Clearly she understands how to listen carefully and, more important here, portray a character in a few well-chosen phrases. Readers hear, see and smell the tiny interview rooms where psychiatry residents speak to their patients. . . . insightful and disturbing. . . . Putting a human face on a problem can help people comprehend it, and ideally motivate them to act.Suicide by Security Blanketpresents a particularly disturbing set of faces with an especially powerful claim to attention. May it yield the kind of action its subjects so urgently require."-The Washington Independent Review of Books