Author: California. Legislature. Senate. Committee on Health and Human Services. Subcommittee on Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities and Genetic DiseasesPublisher:
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Category : Mentally ill
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Re the Acute Bed Care Crisis
Author: California. Legislature. Senate. Committee on Health and Human Services. Subcommittee on Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities and Genetic DiseasesPublisher:
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Category : Mentally ill
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Field Hearing on Quality of Care and Management Issues
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Subcommittee on Oversight and InvestigationsPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Special Committee on Aging
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on AgingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legislative hearings
Languages : en
Pages : 1056
Book Description
Health Care Crisis
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Budget. Task Force on Human ResourcesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Health insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
The Health Care Crisis
Author: Edward Moore KennedyPublisher:
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Category : Long-term care of the sick
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
California State Publications
Author: California State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 936
Book Description
The Hospital Financing Crisis
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on HealthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Federal aid to hospitals
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Hospitals in Crisis
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Budget. Task Force on Urgent Fiscal IssuesPublisher:
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Category : AIDS (Disease)
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Emergency Department Treatment of the Psychiatric Patient
Author: Susan StefanPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198040806
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Many hospital emergency departments are overcrowded and short-staffed, with a limited number of available hospital beds. It is increasingly hard for emergency departments and their staff to provide the necessary level of care for medical patients. Caring for people with psychiatric disabilities raises different issues and calls on different skills. In Emergency Department Treatment of the Psychiatric Patient, Dr. Stefan uses research, surveys, and statutory and litigation materials to examine problems with emergency department care for clients with psychiatric disorders. She relies on interviews with emergency department nurses, doctors and psychiatrists, as well as surveys of people with psychiatric disabilities to present the perspectives of both the individuals seeking treatment, and those providing it. This eye-opening book explores the structural pressures on emergency departments and identifies the burdens and conflicts that undermine their efforts to provide compassionate care to people in psychiatric crisis. In addition to presenting a new analysis of the source of these problems, Dr. Stefan also suggests an array of alternatives to emergency department treatment for people in psychiatric crisis. Moreover, the author proposes standards for treatment of these individuals when they do inevitably end up in a hospital emergency department. Emergency Department Treatment of the Psychiatric Patient presents a thoughtful and thorough analysis of the difficulties faced by people with psychiatric disabilities when seeking emergency medical care. It is essential reading for anyone working in a hospital emergency department, as well as health care policy makers, and advocates and lawyers for people with psychiatric disabilities.
Hearing Voices
Author: Brendan KellyPublisher: Irish Academic Press
ISBN: 1911024442
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
Hearing Voices: The History of Psychiatry in Ireland is a monumental work by one of Ireland’s leading psychiatrists, encompassing every psychiatric development from the Middle Ages to the present day, and examining the far-reaching social and political effects of Ireland’s troubled relationship with mental illness. From the “Glen of Lunatics”, said to cure the mentally ill, to the overcrowded asylums of later centuries – with more beds for the mentally ill than any other country in the world – Ireland has a complex, unsettled history in the practice of psychiatry. Kelly’s definitive work examines Ireland’s unique relationship with conceptions of mental ill health throughout the centuries, delving into each medical breakthrough and every misuse of authority – both political and domestic – for those deemed to be mentally ill. Through fascinating archival records, Kelly writes a crisp and accessible history, evaluating everything from individual case histories to the seismic effects of the First World War, and exploring the attitudes that guided treatments, spanning Brehon Law to the emerging emphasis on human rights. Hearing Voices is a marvel that affords incredible insight into Ireland’s social and medical history while providing powerful observations on our current treatment of mental ill health in Ireland.