Week 6: Discussion: Treatment Of Psychiatric Emergencies In Children Versus Adults

Week 6: Discussion: Treatment Of Psychiatric Emergencies In Children Versus Adults

Post answers to the three questions below:
1. Briefly describe the case you selected (make up one).
2. Explain how you would treat the client differently if he or she were a child or adolescent.
3. Explain any legal or ethical issues you would have to consider when working with a child or adolescent emergency case
Discussion: Treatment of Psychiatric Emergencies in Children versus Adults

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In this week’s Discussion, you compare treatment of adult psychiatric emergency clients to child or adolescent psychiatric emergency clients.
Post answers to the three questions below:
1. Briefly describe the case you selected (make up one).
2. Explain how you would treat the client differently if he or she were a child or adolescent.
3. Explain any legal or ethical issues you would have to consider when working with a child or adolescent emergency case. Week 6: Discussion: Treatment Of Psychiatric Emergencies In Children Versus Adults
References (also outside references welcomed)
Sadock, B. J., Sadock, V. A., & Ruiz, P. (2014). Kaplan & Sadock’s synopsis of psychiatry: Behavioral sciences/clinical psychiatry (11th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Wolters Kluwer.
· Chapter 23, “Emergency Psychiatric Medicine” (pp. 785–790)
· Chapter 31, “Child Psychiatry” (pp. 1226–1253)
American Psychiatric Association. (2013). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed.). Washington, DC: Author.
· “Bipolar and Related Disorders”
Note: You will access this book from the Walden Library databases.
Stahl, S. M. (2014). Prescriber’s Guide: Stahl’s Essential Psychopharmacology (5th ed.). New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.

Thapar, A., Pine, D. S., Leckman, J. F., Scott, S., Snowling, M. J., & Taylor, E. A. (2015). Rutter’s child and adolescent psychiatry (6th ed.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell.
· Chapter 50, “Provision of Intensive Treatment: Intensive Outreach, Day Units, and In-Patient Units” (pp. 648–664)
· Chapter 64, “Suicidal Behavior and Self-Harm” (pp. 893–912) Week 6: Discussion: Treatment Of Psychiatric Emergencies In Children Versus Adults