Suicide by Security Blanket, and Other Stories from the Child Psychiatry Emergency Service: What Happens to Children with Acute Mental Illness

by Laura M. Prager and Abigail Louise Donovan

Book Overview

This book offers a unique glimpse into the startlingly complex world of acute children's psychiatry through 12 chapters, each inspired by the actual visit of a child in psychiatric crisis to one of the most well-known psychiatric emergency rooms in the nation.

Suicide by Security Blanket, and Other Stories from the Child Psychiatry Emergency Service: What Happens to Children with Acute Mental Illness takes the reader inside...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313399492
• ISBN13: 9780313399497
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: ABC-Clio, LLC
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 7 to 17 years