Psychiatric crisis

Psychiatric crisis and psychiatric emergency are acute clinical pictures in psychiatry .

The psychiatric emergency is often caused by a psychiatric illness. As a rule, there is danger to life or the possibility of serious consequences, which requires immediate intervention and immediate, symptom-oriented therapy to help the person affected. Another definition of a psychiatric emergency is a situation in which psychological symptoms dominate without primary diseases from other specialist disciplines being recognizable or demonstrable. The most important emergencies are states of agitation and anxiety , suicidality , impaired consciousness , withdrawal syndromes and catatonic stuporous states .

In a psychiatric crisis , the vital threat is less of a priority. Rather, it is characterized by the collapse of the patient's individual coping strategies due to illness and environmental conditions. Psychiatric crisis intervention is necessary.

The most common reasons for the need for treatment for psychiatric emergencies and crises are the effects of an existing psychiatric illness (approx. 60%), social conflicts (25%), alcohol abuse (23%), "mental crises" (23%) and attempted suicide (17%) ) or existing risk (13%).

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1. ↑ ^{a b c} Georg Juckel : Psychiatric emergencies and suicidality. Charité Berlin. (PDF; 267 kB), accessed on December 11, 2015.
2. ^ ^{A b} Frank-Gerald Pajonk, Felix Bischof, Peter Flüchter: Psychiatric emergencies. Private Nerve Clinic Dr. Med. Kurt Fontheim; (PDF; 1.4 MB), accessed on December 11, 2015.
3. ↑ H. Häfner, W. Rössler, S. Haas: Psychiatric emergency care and crisis intervention - concepts, experiences and results. In: Psychiatr Prax. 1986 Nov; 13 (6), pp. 203-212, PMID 3809312 .

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