{"title":"Ethical Consideration in Dealing With Suicide in Different Populations.","authors":"Sutanaya Pal, Seetha Ramanathan","doi":"10.1176/appi.focus.20220082","DOIUrl":"10.1176/appi.focus.20220082","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73036,"journal":{"name":"Focus (American Psychiatric Publishing)","volume":"21 2","pages":"173-177"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10172560/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9845464","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nadine Melhem, Christine Yu Moutier, David A Brent
{"title":"Implementing Evidence-Based Suicide Prevention Strategies for Greatest Impact.","authors":"Nadine Melhem, Christine Yu Moutier, David A Brent","doi":"10.1176/appi.focus.20220078","DOIUrl":"10.1176/appi.focus.20220078","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Suicide remains a leading cause of death in the United States and globally. In this review, epidemiological trends in mortality and suicide risk are presented, with consideration given to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. A public health model of suicide prevention with a community and clinical framework, along with advances in scientific discovery, offer new solutions that await widespread implementation. Actionable interventions with evidence for reducing risk for suicidal behavior are presented, including universal and targeted strategies at community, public policy, and clinical levels. Clinical interventions include screening and risk assessment; brief interventions (e.g., safety planning, education, and lethal means counseling) that can be done in primary care, emergency, and behavioral health settings; psychotherapies (cognitive-behavioral, dialectical behavior, mentalization therapy); pharmacotherapy; and systemwide procedures for health care organizations (training, policies, workflow, surveillance of suicide indicators, use of health records for screening, care steps). Suicide prevention strategies must be prioritized and implemented at scale for greatest impact.</p>","PeriodicalId":73036,"journal":{"name":"Focus (American Psychiatric Publishing)","volume":"21 2","pages":"117-128"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10172552/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9846156","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Systems Approach to Suicide Prevention: Strengthening Culture, Practice, and Education.","authors":"Anthony R Pisani, Edwin D Boudreaux","doi":"10.1176/appi.focus.20220081","DOIUrl":"10.1176/appi.focus.20220081","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Contemporary approaches to suicide prevention extend beyond an individual's interactions with care providers to seek opportunities for improvement in the wider care system. A systems-based analysis can yield opportunities to improve prevention and recovery across the care continuum. This article uses an example of an individual seeking care in an emergency department to show how a traditional clinical case formulation can be framed in terms of the outer and inner contexts of the EPIS (Exploration, Preparation, Implementation, Sustainment) framework to illuminate the impact of systemic factors on outcomes and to identify opportunities for improvement. Three mutually reinforcing domains (a culture of safety and prevention; best practices, policies, and pathways; and workforce education and development) of a systems approach to suicide prevention are outlined, along with their defining characteristics. A culture of safety and prevention requires engaged, informed leaders who prioritize prevention; lived experience integrated into leadership teams; and adverse events review in a Restorative Just Culture focused on healing and improvement. Best practices, policies, and pathways that promote safety, recovery, and health require codesign of processes and services and evolve through continuous measurement and improvement. To support a culture of safety and prevention, and caring, competent application of policy, organizations benefit from a longitudinal approach to workforce education. This includes a common framework and language; models clinical and lived experience collaboration; and supports continuous learning, as well as onboarding of new staff, rather than following a \"one-and-done\" approach, so that suicide prevention training remains top of mind across the workforce.</p>","PeriodicalId":73036,"journal":{"name":"Focus (American Psychiatric Publishing)","volume":"21 2","pages":"152-159"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10172554/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9846157","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Community-Based Crisis Services, Specialized Crisis Facilities, and Partnerships With Law Enforcement.","authors":"Margaret E Balfour, Scott L Zeller","doi":"10.1176/appi.focus.20220074","DOIUrl":"10.1176/appi.focus.20220074","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>How a community responds to behavioral health emergencies is both a public health issue and a social justice issue. Individuals experiencing a behavioral health crisis often receive inadequate care in emergency departments, boarding for hours or days while awaiting treatment. Such crises also account for a quarter of police shootings and 2 million jail bookings per year, and racism and implicit bias magnify these problems for people of color. Fortunately, the new 988 mental health emergency number compounded with police reform movements have created momentum for building behavioral health crisis response systems that deliver comparable quality and consistency of care as we expect for medical emergencies. This paper provides an overview of the rapidly evolving landscape of crisis services. The authors discuss the role of law enforcement and various approaches to lessening the impact on individuals experiencing behavioral health emergencies, especially for historically marginalized populations. The authors provide an overview of the crisis continuum, including crisis hotlines, mobile teams, observation units, crisis residential programs, and peer wraparound services that can help ensure that linkage to aftercare is successful. The authors also highlight opportunities for psychiatric leadership, advocacy, and strategies for creating a well-coordinated crisis system that meets the needs of the community.</p>","PeriodicalId":73036,"journal":{"name":"Focus (American Psychiatric Publishing)","volume":"21 1","pages":"18-27"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10172540/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9489577","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Michael P Wilson, Edward Hamrick, Victor Stiebel, Kimberly Nordstrom
{"title":"Contemporary Practices for Medical Evaluation of the Psychiatric Patient in the Emergency Department.","authors":"Michael P Wilson, Edward Hamrick, Victor Stiebel, Kimberly Nordstrom","doi":"10.1176/appi.focus.20220063","DOIUrl":"10.1176/appi.focus.20220063","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Although emergency department (ED) visits for patients with mental illness are frequent, medical evaluation (i.e., \"medical screening\") of patients presenting with psychiatric complaints is inconsistent. This may largely be related to differing goals for medical screening, which often vary according to specialty. Although emergency physicians typically focus on stabilization of life-threatening diseases, psychiatrists tend to believe that care in the ED is more comprehensive, which often places the two fields at odds. The authors discuss the concept of medical screening, review the literature on this topic, and offer a clinically oriented update to the 2017 American Association for Emergency Psychiatry consensus guidelines on medical evaluation of the adult psychiatric patient in the ED.</p>","PeriodicalId":73036,"journal":{"name":"Focus (American Psychiatric Publishing)","volume":"21 1","pages":"28-34"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10172537/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9489580","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Legal Considerations in Emergency Psychiatry.","authors":"John S Rozel, Tara Toohey, Priyanka Amin","doi":"10.1176/appi.focus.20220071","DOIUrl":"10.1176/appi.focus.20220071","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Emergency psychiatry stands at the fulcrum between the general principles of autonomy and liberty balanced against illnesses that both subvert autonomy and amplify risks for violence and suicide. Although all specialties of medicine must operate in adherence with the law, emergency psychiatry is particularly constrained and guided by state and federal laws. Routine matters of emergency psychiatric care-including involuntary assessment, admission and treatment, management of agitation, medical stabilization and transfer, confidentiality, voluntary and involuntary commitment, and duties to third parties-all occur within carefully delimited legal boundaries, rules, and processes. This article provides a basic overview of critical legal principles relevant to the practice of emergency psychiatry.</p>","PeriodicalId":73036,"journal":{"name":"Focus (American Psychiatric Publishing)","volume":"21 1","pages":"3-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10172539/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9495918","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}