Emergency Psychiatry Glossary

Auditory hallucinations that direct the patient to perform specific actions, often representing high clinical risk.

A formal assessment to determine if an individual possesses the mental capacity to make informed decisions about psychia...

Systematic review of patient factors that may prohibit use of specific psychiatric medications or interventions.

Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program providing specialized emergency mental health services.

Training program for crisis intervention and safe physical management of aggressive behavior.

A specialized short-term inpatient psychiatric bed designated for rapid access stabilization of patients experiencing ac...

Specialized verbal and behavioral strategies used to de-escalate acute psychiatric emergencies and establish therapeutic...

Short-term residential facility designed to provide intensive treatment during acute psychiatric episodes as an alternat...

Legal criterion for involuntary psychiatric commitment based on substantial risk of serious physical harm to other perso...

A criterion for involuntary psychiatric evaluation or commitment indicating that, as a result of a mental disorder, a pe...

A verbal and non-verbal intervention technique used by emergency psychiatry staff to reduce a patient's level of agitati...

Deterioration in mental health functioning often requiring emergency psychiatric intervention.

A ranked list of possible diagnoses that could explain a patient's presenting symptoms, used in emergency psychiatry to...

Process of determining appropriate next level of care and placement for psychiatric patients following emergency evaluat...

A psychiatric emergency presentation in which a patient suddenly loses autobiographical memory and may assume a new iden...

A legal and ethical obligation for mental health clinicians to take reasonable steps to protect identifiable third parti...

Unauthorized departure of a psychiatric patient from a healthcare facility or treatment setting.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy, occasionally used in emergency settings for acute trauma response...

Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, federal law requiring emergency departments to provide medical screening and...

A clinical syndrome characterised by extreme agitation, hyperthermia, superhuman strength, and altered consciousness, of...

A controversial medical and forensic term describing an acute state of extreme agitation, hyperthermia, and altered ment...

A physical restraint method in which all four extremities of a patient are secured to a bed frame, used in emergency set...

A legal standard used in involuntary psychiatric holds referring to a person's inability to provide for their own basic...

Legal standard describing inability to provide basic personal needs due to mental illness, justifying involuntary treatm...