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Using the Perspectives of Psychiatry Framework in a Scandinavian Emergency Department Setting

The perspectives of psychiatry framework in a scandinavian emergency room setting

The Perspectives of Psychiatry framework can be used as a clinical teaching tool to explicitly teach students the decision-making process in psychiatric emergency services.

Clinical decision-making in psychiatric emergency services (PES) can be confusing for students and resident physicians: people who initially appear severely ill may be referred for outpatient follow-up, while those with less apparent symptoms may sometimes be admitted involuntarily. Arguing that a framework describing how these decisions are made would facilitate learning, the speaker applied the Perspectives of Psychiatry (PoP) framework in clinical teaching at the psychiatric emergency unit of Scania University Hospital (Malmö, Sweden) and received positive feedback from students. According to the framework, some conditions, such as psychosis, mania, and certain forms of depression, result from bodily disease processes, whereas other conditions are not manifestations of disease but arise from a person's temperament, behaviors, or life experiences. In the emergency department, psychiatrists generally try to identify the sources of the presenting problem and how these sources interact. Once a hypothesis has been formulated about how the patient's condition arose, an initial treatment plan can be developed. The framework is thus described as identifying the fundamental principles of psychiatric reasoning and making this thinking process readily teachable to students.

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