The Child or Adolescent Psychiatric Inpatient
The Child or Adolescent Psychiatric Inpatient Flynn O’Malley Norma V. L. Clarke This chapter focuses on inpatient treatment for the child or adolescent patient. The authors view acute hospital care…
Inpatient Treatment of Eating Disorders
Inpatient Treatment of Eating Disorders Wayne A. Bowers Arnold E. Andersen Kay Evans Although many patients with an eating disorder are successfully treated in an outpatient setting, hospital-based care by…
The Medically Ill or Pregnant Psychiatric Inpatient
The Medically Ill or Pregnant Psychiatric Inpatient James J. Amos Vicki Kijewski Roger Kathol The goal of this chapter is to help general psychiatrists manage psychiatric inpatients who have active,…
The Brain-Injured or Developmentally Disabled Psychiatric Inpatient
The Brain-Injured or Developmentally Disabled Psychiatric Inpatient David B. Arciniegas Alan C. Anderson The neuropsychiatric consequences of acquired brain injury (ABI) and developmental disabilities (DD) are many and varied and…
The Elderly Psychiatric Inpatient
The Elderly Psychiatric Inpatient Vassilios Latoussakis Sibel A. Klimstra Dimitris N. Kiosses Balkrishna Kalayam George S. Alexopoulos Aging is associated with physiological and psychological changes that may alter the manifestation,…
Evaluation and Management of Substance Use Disorders on the Inpatient Psychiatric Unit
Evaluation and Management of Substance Use Disorders on the Inpatient Psychiatric Unit Christine E. Yodelis-Flores W. R. Murray Bennett Jason P. Veitengruber Richard K. Ries The need to evaluate, diagnose,…
The Patient with Borderline Personality Disorder
The Patient with Borderline Personality Disorder Anthony W. Bateman Few areas of psychiatric investigation have seen such radical progress in the field of personality disorder (PD), particularly the understanding and…
Recurrently Readmitted Inpatient Psychiatric Patients: Characteristics and Care
Recurrently Readmitted Inpatient Psychiatric Patients: Characteristics and Care William H. Sledge Christine L. Dunn Case Vignette Pam is a 33-year-old mother of five children, divorced, with the diagnoses of mood…
Inpatient Agitation and Aggression
Inpatient Agitation and Aggression Eila Sailas Alice Keski-Valkama Kristian Wahlbeck People with mental disorders are somewhat more likely to manifest violent behavior in the community than those with no history…
Inpatient Evaluation and Management of First-Episode Psychosis
Inpatient Evaluation and Management of First-Episode Psychosis Richard Fraser Peter Burnett Patrick McGorry Rationale for a First-Episode Psychosis Service and Inpatient Unit Inpatient units are often the first point of…
