Multimodal Treatment of Acute Psychiatric Illness: A Guide for Hospital Diversion
Justin Simpson and Glendon Moriarty
Abstract
The multimodal treatment of acute psychiatric illness involves a set of integrated, systematic interventions that stabilize individuals with severe mental illness and help them avoid unnecessary psychiatric hospitalization. This volume focuses on those suffering from schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder, severe anxiety, and substance dependence, and provides individual practitioners and professional teams with the tools for responding to crisis and delivering acute care. The text includes real-world case examples, diagrams, and printable workshee ... More
Keywords: acute psychiatric illness, psychiatric hospitalization, schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder, severe anxiety, substance dependence
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2013 | Print ISBN-13: 9780231158831 |
| Published to Columbia Scholarship Online: November 2015 | DOI:10.7312/columbia/9780231158831.001.0001 |
