Treatment Of Psychiatric Emergencies In Children Versus Adults

Required Readings

American Psychiatric Association. (2013). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental dis s (5th ed.). Washington, DC: Author.

“Bipolar and Related Dis s”

Sadock, B. J., Sadock, V. A., & Ruiz, P. (2014). Kaplan & Sadock’s synopsis of psychiatry: Behavioral sciences/clinical psychiatry (11th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Wolters Kluwer.
Chapter 23, “Emergency Psychiatric Medicine” (pp. 785–790)
Chapter 31, “Child Psychiatry” (pp. 1226–1253)

Stahl, S. M. (2014). Prescriber’s Guide: Stahl’s Essential Psychopharmacology (5th ed.). New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.

Note: All Stahl resources can be accessed through the Walden Library using the link. This link will take you to a login page for the Walden Library. Once you log in to the library, the Stahl website will appear.

To access information on the following medications, click on The Prescriber’s Guide, 5th Ed. tab on the Stahl Online website and select the appropriate medication.

Learning Objectives

Students will:

• Compare treatment of adult psychiatric emergency clients to child or adolescent psychiatric emergency clients
• Analyze legal and ethical issues concerning treatment of child or adolescent psychiatric emergency clients

To Prepare:

• Review the Learning Resources concerning emergency psychiatric medicine.
• Consider a case where an adult client had a psychiatric emergency. If you have not had a personal experience with an adult client who had a psychiatric emergency, you can conduct an internet or library search to identify one.

Post:

• Briefly describe the case you selected.

• Explain how you would treat the client differently if he or she were a child or adolescent.

• Explain any legal or ethical issues you would have to consider when working with a child or adolescent emergency case.

Provide a minimum of three academic references no more than five years old .

Support your approach with evidence-based literature in APA Format and proper citation, including introduction and conclusion.

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