Emergency Mental Health Services in the Community (Studies in Social and Community Psychiatry)
Contributors: Alan Langlands (Foreword); Michael Phelan (Editor); Geraldine Strathdee (Editor); Graham Thornicroft (Editor)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: December 14, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780521034555
Subjects: Mental health services; Psychiatry; Medical / Nursing; Medical; Psychiatry - General; Medical / Psychiatry; Psychiatric emergencies; Psychiatric emergencies Psychiatric emergenci
First sentence: When psychiatric care was based in large psychiatric hospitals there was a limited professional response to what would nowadays be called, a psychiatric emergency - i.e., disturbed patients who, posing a risk to themselves or to others, were taken to hospital and admitted.