Discussion Board
• Examine psychiatric emergencies that arise during childhood and adolescence and compare how those emergencies are assessed and treated to those of adult clients.
• Compare treatment of adult psychiatric emergency clients to child or adolescent psychiatric emergency clients
• Analyze legal and ethical issues concerning treatment of child or adolescent psychiatric emergency clients
Consider a case where an adult client had a psychiatric emergency. If you have not had a personal experience with an adult client who had a psychiatric emergency, you can conduct an internet or library search to identify one.
o Briefly describe the case you selected.
o Explain how you would treat the client differently if he or she were a child or adolescent.
o Explain any legal or ethical issues you would have to consider when working with a child or adolescent emergency case.
The response must include a reference list. Using Times New Roman 12 pnt font, double-space, one-inch margins, and APA style of writing and citations.
REFERENCES
• Bipolar and Related Disorders"
• 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.
o Chapter 23, "Emergency Psychiatric Medicine" (pp. 785-790)
o Chapter 31, "Child Psychiatry" (pp. 1226-1253)
• Stahl, S. M. (2014). Prescriber's Guide: Stahl's Essential Psychopharmacology (5th ed.). New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.