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Overview
Significantly expanded and updated from the first edition, this 2008 edition of Psychiatric Intensive Care is essential reading for all healthcare professionals and managers involved in the care of the mentally ill patient, particularly in the intensive care environment. It provides practical and evidence-based advice on the management of disturbed and severely ill psychiatric patients in secure hospital settings. New chapters were added covering multidisciplinary team working, and emphasising the interface of psychiatric intensive care with other mental health specialities; specifically, Interface with General Psychiatry, Interface with Learning Difficulties, Interface with the Child and Adolescent, Interface with Substance Misuse, Interface with Social Work, User and Carer Issues, Legal Issues and National Standards and Good Practice in Psychiatric Intensive Care. This book should be read by all mental health team members working with disturbed psychiatric patients on an inpatient basis, as well as by management staff responsible for establishing and running these services.
The book contains black-and-white illustrations.
Synopsis
A concise, multidisciplinary book that defines the emerging sub-specialty of psychiatric intensive care and sets out best practice.
Doody Review Services
Reviewer:Nancy Schell, MD(Rush University Medical Center)
Description:This book looks at the concept, practice, and development of psychiatric intensive care.
Purpose:The purpose is to cover as many elements of psychiatric intensive care as possible within the confines of one book. It also provides a practical guide in aiding the establishment and management of such.
Audience:The book is written for all healthcare and related professionals working in or interacting with psychiatric intensive care units as well as managers with a responsibility to commission, provide, and monitor such units. The intended audience may be too broad such that only one or two chapters may be useful to a particular reader. On the whole, it would appear more aptly geared for administrative purposes.
Features:The book discusses the development and definition of psychiatric intensive care and management of the acutely ill by first addressing such issues as drug treatments, psychological therapies, therapeutic activities, restraints, and seclusion. The focus then shifts toward areas of risk, interface with forensic services, and other notable issues from setting up a new psychiatric intensive care unit to effective management of care. Although it provides a good general overview, it is not thorough enough in important chapters such as drug treatment, wherein newer drugs that could be useful in an acute setting are not mentioned. This may or may not be related to the fact that this book is based upon practice in the U.K., which can significantly differ from practice in the U.S. This makes some of the material irrelevant in the United States. However, the book does offer a different perspective which is interesting and may be beneficial in further improvement and growth within the U.S.
Assessment:There are not many books that have focused on this topic. Atlhough this book is a worthwhile contribution to the field, clinicians in the U.S. may not find it as practical as practitioners in the U.K.
Editorials
From The Critics
Reviewer: Nancy Schell, MD(Rush University Medical Center)Description: This book looks at the concept, practice, and development of psychiatric intensive care.
Purpose: The purpose is to cover as many elements of psychiatric intensive care as possible within the confines of one book. It also provides a practical guide in aiding the establishment and management of such.
Audience: The book is written for all healthcare and related professionals working in or interacting with psychiatric intensive care units as well as managers with a responsibility to commission, provide, and monitor such units. The intended audience may be too broad such that only one or two chapters may be useful to a particular reader. On the whole, it would appear more aptly geared for administrative purposes.
Features: The book discusses the development and definition of psychiatric intensive care and management of the acutely ill by first addressing such issues as drug treatments, psychological therapies, therapeutic activities, restraints, and seclusion. The focus then shifts toward areas of risk, interface with forensic services, and other notable issues from setting up a new psychiatric intensive care unit to effective management of care. Although it provides a good general overview, it is not thorough enough in important chapters such as drug treatment, wherein newer drugs that could be useful in an acute setting are not mentioned. This may or may not be related to the fact that this book is based upon practice in the U.K., which can significantly differ from practice in the U.S. This makes some of the material irrelevant in the United States. However, the book does offer a different perspective which is interesting and may be beneficial in further improvement and growth within the U.S.
Assessment: There are not many books that have focused on this topic. Atlhough this book is a worthwhile contribution to the field, clinicians in the U.S. may not find it as practical as practitioners in the U.K.
3 Stars from Doody