Comprehensive Emergency Mental Health Care (Norton Professional Books) [Hardcover]

Joseph J. Zealberg (Author), Alberto B. Santos (Author), Jackie A. Puckett (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1996 | ISBN-10: 0393702243 | ISBN-13: 978-0393702248 | Edition: 1

This study presents a view of emergency services in which the clinician serves as a strong advocate for the patient while providing comprehensive evaluation, immediate crisis resolution and quick access to mental health services. This flexible and accessible approach is claimed to be dramatically improving the treatment of disturbed people, enabling them to function, with support, in the community, and greatly reducing hospitalization.

Editorial Reviews

Review

This very readable, practical book presents an excellent outline of emergency behavioral health services....[T]his book brings order and optimism where there so often can be chaos. Front-line staff need training and support. Administrative organization must be logical and accessible. The services should have a sense of overall mission as well as day-to-day goals to focus the work. Drs. Zealberg and Santos have faced these challenges and given us a guidebook that can be useful to those in training, in practice, and in management. -- Psychiatric Services, Donna M. Moores, M.D., July 1998, 49/7

Product Details

• Hardcover: 290 pages
• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc; 1 edition (June 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0393702243
• ISBN-13: 978-0393702248
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.3 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,089,551 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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