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Special Populations in Psychiatric Emergency Services: Children and Adolescents

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This chapter highlights the current state of child and adolescent emergency psychiatry, specifically the increase in pediatric psychiatry emergency room visits, and describes the roles the various emergency systems that assess and care for youth need to fill in this context. The authors also aim to enumerate the treatment modalities, types of staff, and interventions best suited to treat this population. The text also addresses the need for a greater investment in resources, both in infrastructure and specialized provider training, to allow for the implementation of innovative and efficient solutions to this growing gap in care.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. New York University Langone Health, New York, NY, USA

    Danielle La Rocco

  2. Clinical Psychiatry, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA

    Danielle La Rocco

  3. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, New York University Langone Health, New York, NY, USA

    Tzvi Furer

  4. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA

    Tzvi Furer

  5. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, New York City Health + Hospitals/Bellevue, New York, NY, USA

    Tzvi Furer

  6. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA

    Ruth Gerson

  7. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Children’s Comprehensive Psychiatry Emergency Program, New York City Health + Hospitals/Bellevue, New York, NY, USA

    Ruth Gerson

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  1. Department of Psychiatry, Louisiana State University, Health Shreveport, Shreveport, LA, USA

    Mary Jo Fitz-Gerald

  2. Department of Psychiatry, University of Hawai’i, Honolulu, HI, USA

    Junji Takeshita

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La Rocco, D., Furer, T., Gerson, R. (2020). Special Populations in Psychiatric Emergency Services: Children and Adolescents. In: Fitz-Gerald, M.J., Takeshita, J. (eds) Models of Emergency Psychiatric Services That Work. Integrating Psychiatry and Primary Care. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50808-1_17

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