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S010-2

Emergency in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Michelle B. Riba

Professor and Associate Chair for Integrated Medical and Psychiatric Services, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
MI , USA

Content: As more and more children and adolescents present to emergency departments for care, it
is important for psychiatry residents and psychiatrists to better understand the basics of managing
psychiatric emergencies for these groups of patients. This presentation will review some of the basic
principles of emergency psychiatry involving a child and adolescent; aspects of the initial assessment;
common presentations including laboratory studies; and elements of the suicide assessment.

Reference: Levine BH, Najara JE: Child and Adolescent Emergency Psychiatry. In Riba MB,
Ravindranath D, Winder GS: Clinical Manual of Emergency Psychiatry, Second Edition, American
Psychiatric Press, Inc, 2015
Allen MH, Currier GW, Carpenter D, et al. Expert Concensus Panel for Behavioral Emergencies
2005: The expert consensus guideline series. Treatment of behavioral emergencies, J Psychiatric
Pract 11 (sup 1) 5-108, 2005