Mental Health in Emergency Care

1st Edition - September 7, 2022
Author: Peta Marks
Language: English
Paperback ISBN:
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Mental Health in Emergency Care takes a practical, scenario-based approach to help students and recent graduates hone their knowledge and skills to address the mental health needs of people presenting to emergency care settings.

Featuring typical presentations across community, pre-hospital and hospital contexts, the scenarios demonstrate how clinicians can identify underlying mental health issues that can often go undetected and contribute to poor health outcomes.

Mental Health in Emergency Care
provides a framework for thinking about mental health in emergency settings, and how to develop mental health knowledge and skills that can be applied in order to provide more holistic care to all patients.

Cover image
Title page
Table of Contents
Copyright
About the editor
Contributors
Foreword
Preface
List of Tables
List of Illustrations
1. Introduction to mental health in emergency care
Introduction
Mental health and mental health problems
A social ecological approach to mental health
Recovery-oriented and trauma-informed approaches to care
Summary
Useful websites
References
2. Mental health triage in emergency settings
Introduction
The Australasian triage scale
Triage and the issue of ‘risk’ and safety
Safety in care, safety at work
Assessing and managing agitation and distress
Somatic complaints and psychological distress
Summary
Useful websites
References
3. Practice setting scenarios
Introduction
Integrating mental health across the service spectrum – stepped care
Effective practice in emergency care settings
Orientation to the practice-based scenarios
Summary
Useful websites
References
3.1 Supporting the social and emotional wellbeing of aboriginal and torres strait islander peoples presenting with mental health concerns
Introduction
Aboriginal and torres strait islander social and emotional wellbeing
Health, mental health and where people live
Health and mental health service access in rural and remote areas
Culturally safe care
Summary
Acknowledgements
Useful websites
References
3.2 Assessing and responding to people with co-occurring mental health and substance use concerns
Introduction
Alcohol and other drug use
Prevalence of co-occurring mental health and substance use concerns
Consumer experience of substance use
Assessment of the person with a co-occurring substance use and mental health problem
Assessment of suicidality
Assessment and management of withdrawal
Summary
Useful websites
References
3.3 Assessing and responding to children and young people experiencing mental health concerns
Introduction
Self-harm and young people
Suicide and young people
Psychosis and young people
Behavioural disturbance and young people
Technology and young people
Useful websites
References
3.4 Working with families of people experiencing mental illness or distress
Introduction
The needs of children
Working with families in emergency settings
Summary
Useful websites
References
3.5 Assessing and responding to an older person presenting with confusion, agitation and delirium
Introduction
Residential aged care transfers to emergency departments
Delirium in the emergency department
Risk factors for delirium
Delirium screening
Strategies for managing delirium
Summary
Useful websites
References
3.6 Assessing and responding to someone who presents following intentional self-harm
Introduction
Summary
References
3.7 Assessing and responding to someone who presents with suicidal behaviour
Introduction
Summary
Useful websites
References
3.8 Assessing and responding to someone presenting with panic
Introduction
Stress, fear and anxiety
‘Panic disorder’
Summary
Useful websites
References
3.9 Assessing and responding to someone presenting with an eating disorder
Introduction
Epidemiology
Eating disorder presentations to emergency departments
Psychological impacts
Evidence-based treatment
Summary
Useful websites
References
3.10 Assessment and management considerations working with women experiencing a mental health perinatal emergency in remote Australia
Introduction
Perinatal mental health
Baby blues
Postpartum depression
Puerperal psychosis
Summary
Useful websites
References
3.11 Assessment and management considerations working with someone experiencing psychosis in a pacer team community setting
Introduction
About PACER*
Summary
Useful websites
References
3.12 Assessment and management considerations working with people presenting with mood disorder in the pre-hospital (paramedic) practice setting
Introduction
Registration and standards of care
Mental health workload in the pre-hospital setting
Changes in mood: Caring in the community
Summary
Useful websites
References
3.13 Assessment and management considerations for supporting asylum seekers and refugees
Introduction
Immigration detention and causal links to mental health
Summary
Useful websites
References
3.14 Supporting resilience and providing psychological first aid when working in disaster settings as a first responder
Introduction
Summary
Useful websites
References
4. Self-care for working in emergency care settings
Introduction
Anxiety and stress
Secondary traumatic stress
Emotional labour
Compassion fatigue
Burnout
Protective strategies and self-care
Boundaries
Reflective practice
Summary
Useful websites
References
Index

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