I. General Principles
1. The History of Emergency Psychiatry: A Personal Account
2. Structure and Function of Psychiatric Emergency Services
3. Triage of Psychiatric Emergencies
4. Safety in the Psychiatric Emergency Service
5. Medical Evaluation of Behavioral Emergencies
6. Principles of Emergency Psychopharmacology
7. Engaging the Crisis Patient Concerning Medication
8. Peer and Consumer involvement in the Psychiatric Emergency Service
9. Advanced interviewing Techniques in Emergencies
10. Interviewing for Acuity and the Acute Precipitant
11. The Family in Psychiatric Emergencies
II. Common Presenting Problems
12. Agitation I: Overview of Agitation and Violence
13. Agitation II: De-escalation of Aggressive Patient
14. Agitation III: Pharmacologic Treatment of Agitation
15. Suicide and Homicide
16. Psychosis
17. Depression
18. Mania and Mixed States
19. Anxiety
20. Delirium
21. Dementia
22. Substance Abuse
23. Loss and Trauma
24. Personality Disorders
25. Factitious Disorders and Malingering
26. Somatoform Disorders
III. Special Topics
27. The Psychiatric Emergency Assessment of Children and Adolescents
28. The Psychiatric Emergency Assessment of the Geriatric Patient
29. Psychiatric Emergencies during Pregnancy and Post Partum and Review of Gender Issues in Psychiatric Emergency Medicine.
30. The Psychiatric Emergency Assessment of the Patient with Developmental Disability
31. Emergency Psychiatric Services for People Who are Homeless: Intervention, Linkage, and Recovery
32. Legal Issues in Emergency Psychiatry
33. The Crisis Intervention Team Model: An Intersection Point for the Criminal Justice System and the Psychiatric Emergency Service
34. Crisis Residential Settings
35. Mobile Crisis Setting
36. Psychiatric Emergencies in Other Medical Settings
37. The Crisis Phone Call
38. Cultural Issues in Emergency Psychiatry
IV. Public Policy, Teaching, and the Future
39. Disaster Psychiatry and Psychiatric Emergency Services
40. Violence Prevention and Control: A Public Health Approach
41. Policy Issues Relating to the Treatment of People with Psychiatric Disabilities in Emergency Department Settings
42. Education and Training in the Psychiatric Emergency Services
44. Research and Quality Improvement Activities in the Psychiatric Emergency Service
45. The Future of Emergency Psychiatry