Book contents
- Psychiatric Intensive Care
- Psychiatric Intensive Care
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface to the Third Edition
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Preface to the First Edition
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1 Psychiatric Intensive Care: Development and Definition
- Chapter 2 Psychiatric Intensive Care in Mental Health Secure Units
- Chapter 3 National Standards and Good Practice
- Chapter 4 Commissioning and Developing a PICU
- Chapter 5 PICU Design, Environment and Security
- Chapter 6 Team Resilience
- Chapter 7 Principles and Practice for Management of Acutely Disturbed Patients
- Chapter 8 Absconding
- Chapter 9 Substance Misuse
- Chapter 10 Fire-Setting and Arson
- Chapter 11 Sexually Problematic Behaviour in Mental Health Inpatient Units
- Chapter 12 Self-Harm and Personality Disorders in PICU
- Chapter 13 Activity and Positive Engagement within a PICU
- Chapter 14 De-escalation
- Chapter 15 Psychological Approaches to the Acute Patient in PICUs
- Chapter 16 A Social Behaviour Theory Approach to Challenging Behaviours in Psychosis
- Chapter 17 Pharmacological Therapy
- Chapter 18 Rapid Tranquillisation
- Chapter 19 The Use of Seclusion in Mental Health Care
- Chapter 20 The Practice of Restraint and Physical Intervention
- Chapter 21 Management of the Mental Health Emergency in the Community
- Chapter 22 PICU for the Care of Young People
- Chapter 23 Female-Only PICUs
- Chapter 24 The Complex Needs Patient
- Chapter 25 Psychiatric Intensive Care in General Hospital Settings
- Chapter 26 An Overview of International Perspectives on PICUs
- Index
- References
Chapter 15 - Psychological Approaches to the Acute Patient in PICUs
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 March 2024
- Psychiatric Intensive Care
- Psychiatric Intensive Care
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface to the Third Edition
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Preface to the First Edition
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1 Psychiatric Intensive Care: Development and Definition
- Chapter 2 Psychiatric Intensive Care in Mental Health Secure Units
- Chapter 3 National Standards and Good Practice
- Chapter 4 Commissioning and Developing a PICU
- Chapter 5 PICU Design, Environment and Security
- Chapter 6 Team Resilience
- Chapter 7 Principles and Practice for Management of Acutely Disturbed Patients
- Chapter 8 Absconding
- Chapter 9 Substance Misuse
- Chapter 10 Fire-Setting and Arson
- Chapter 11 Sexually Problematic Behaviour in Mental Health Inpatient Units
- Chapter 12 Self-Harm and Personality Disorders in PICU
- Chapter 13 Activity and Positive Engagement within a PICU
- Chapter 14 De-escalation
- Chapter 15 Psychological Approaches to the Acute Patient in PICUs
- Chapter 16 A Social Behaviour Theory Approach to Challenging Behaviours in Psychosis
- Chapter 17 Pharmacological Therapy
- Chapter 18 Rapid Tranquillisation
- Chapter 19 The Use of Seclusion in Mental Health Care
- Chapter 20 The Practice of Restraint and Physical Intervention
- Chapter 21 Management of the Mental Health Emergency in the Community
- Chapter 22 PICU for the Care of Young People
- Chapter 23 Female-Only PICUs
- Chapter 24 The Complex Needs Patient
- Chapter 25 Psychiatric Intensive Care in General Hospital Settings
- Chapter 26 An Overview of International Perspectives on PICUs
- Index
- References
Summary
This chapter highlights some important features of psychological work within the context of acute psychiatric services, specifically psychiatric intensive care unit (PICU) settings. A psychological perspective offers a valuable opportunity for mental health professions to investigate the holistic experience of ward culture and patient treatment on such wards. This chapter explores some of the key roles of a clinical psychologist on a PICU, including offering psychological assessments, psychological therapy and management to patients and their families. A relational and developmental model is used, in line with object-relations theorists such as Winnicott and Casement. The chapter reflects on the role of psychologists in offering staff support and encouraging psychological safety on wards. It explores specific challenges to psychological work on acute wards will be explored, including working with the involuntary status of patients, and the complexity and risk to self and others inherent to presentations in acute settings.
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- Psychiatric Intensive Care , pp. 187 - 204Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024