Acute Care Psychiatry: Diagnosis & Treatment

by Lloyd I. Sederer

Book Overview

The hospital inpatient service is no longer the only site for acute psychiatric care. Instead, crisis units now receive and evaluate acute care patients. Many patients still go into hospital care, but many are held briefly, stabilized and "discharged" to intensive (not inpatient) levels of care. These include 24-hour residential programmes, partial hospital (day programmes) and intensive (more than twice a week) outpatient follow-ups. For those hospitalized,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0683300067
• ISBN13: 9780683300062
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
• Length: 577 Pages
• Weight: 2.95 lbs.