Talk down

As Talk Down (based on English calm down - calm down) or down speeches is the calming a person in drug-related anxiety - anger - or Verwirrtheits ; states designated by soothing words.

This method of re-establishing a reference to reality is one of the most important tasks of a trip sitter .

If the talk down does nothing and the person concerned poses a danger to himself or others , a doctor must be consulted who can use sedatives to reduce the person's symptoms under certain circumstances and who is bound by medical confidentiality .

literature

• Mario Anke, Barbara Bojack, Gernot Krämer, Klaus Seißelberg: De-escalation strategies in psychiatric work. Psychiatrie-Verlag, 2003, ISBN 3-88414-360-3
• Frank-Ludwig Bertschat: Practical emergency medicine . De Gruyter, 1988, ISBN 3-11-011599-9
• M. Hermanns-Clausen: Poisoning with biogenic drugs - cases from everyday life.
• Hans-Jürgen Möller , G. Laux, H.-P. Kapfhammer: Psychiatry and Psychotherapy. Springer, 2005, ISBN 3-540-25074-3
• Joachim Müller-Lange: Handbook of emergency pastoral care. 2006. Full text skverlag.de (PDF)

Web links

• The drug emergency (PDF; 295 kB) Austrian Red Cross

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