@article{1461870,
      recid = {1461870},
      author = {Scott, Tricia},
      title = {Mental health: intervention skills for the emergency  services /},
      publisher = {Springer,},
      address = {Cham :},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      year = {2023},
      abstract = {This book addresses the practical management of mental  health scenarios in the emergency setting and offers  first-hand reflections on how emergency nurses,  practitioners and allied mental health professionals handle  these situations. Responding to mental health needs in  emergency situations can be profoundly complex. Frequently  emergency nurses and other personnel express their feelings  of powerlessness, as they do not know what to say or do in  order to achieve the best outcome, and have concerns that  their intervention may make the situation worse for those  in their care. How a practitioner confronts the mental  health encounter and takes the essential steps in managing  the event can have a critical impact on how that person  copes in the future. This book helps readers understand  what is involved in mental health work in emergency  situations, and the practical, psychosocial and spiritual  tensions that arise from managing the event and the  sequelae. Moreover, it shows that it may be possible to  provide a more effective emergency mental health service.  This unique edited book focuses on the management of people  living through mental health crises and how emergency  nurses, practitioners and allied mental health  professionals in the community may offer support. It  presents critical reflections on aspects of mental health  work gathered from the hands-on experiences of the  personnel. Mental health encounters in the emergency  context are described in detail, illustrating not only what  emergency nurses and mental health workers do when mental  health crises occur, but also what they feel about what  they do. Written by a diverse team of emergency and mental  health nurses and allied professionals currently engaged in  emergency care both in hospital and pre-hospital settings,  this book will appeal to emergency nurses and allied health  professionals alike.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1461870},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20347-3},
}