Urgency and emergency in developmental psychopathology: Analysys of cases’ report attending a child and adolescent neuropsychiatric service
- Autores: Michela Gatta, Giulia Ghiani, Emilia Ferruzza, Lara Del Col, Silvia Zanato
- Localización: Cuadernos de psiquiatría y psicoterapia del niño y del adolescente, ISSN 1575-5967, Nº. 65, 2, 2018 (Ejemplar dedicado a: XVIII Congreso AEPEA y XXX Congreso Nacional de SEPYPNA), págs. 21-26
- Idioma: inglés
- Títulos paralelos:
- Urgence et urgence dans la psychopathologie du developpement: analyse du rapport des cas contesant un service neuropsychiatrique des enfants et des adolescents
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Resumen
Psychiatric emergencies have steadily increased in recent years, but they are still poorly defined and studied, especially in developmental age and outside the Emergency Department context. This retrospective cross-sectional study aims to analyse characteristics of a clinical sample under the light of psychiatric urgency and emergency concepts. Both the “urgency” and “emergency” concepts and the Rosenn & Gail’s severity classification were applied to 399 first inspection forms to describe different conditions at the arrival. About half of the cases corresponded to urgency/emergency conditions, with a male gender prevalence and an average age of 10 y. Emergency was associated to Behavioural Disorders mainly, while urgency conditions were associated to Somatic sphere Disorders, Selfinjured Behaviours, Anxious -Affective Disorders. This research, operating a differentiation between urgency and emergency, allows a cleareridentification and a tailored therapeutic plan about cases that are similar on a symptomatic side but different by a psychopathological perspective
