American Association for Emergency Psychiatry

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
American Association for Emergency Psychiatry
American Association for Emergency Psychiatry Logo.png
AbbreviationAAEP
Focusemergency psychiatry
Region
United States
Websitehttp://www.emergencypsychiatry.org/

The American Association for Emergency Psychiatry (AAEP) is a professional association for emergency psychiatry healthcare professionals in the United States. AAEP hosts national conferences in the field of emergency psychiatry, offering continuing education credit for its membership.[1] AAEP publishes the journal, Emergency Psychiatry, which publishes scientific manuscripts and book reviews.[2] AAEP maintains a members-only discussion board, which Psychiatric Times described as having "lively debates about best practices and ethical issues."[1] AAEP hosts a job-search service for open job postings for healthcare positions in psychiatry.[3] AAEP has published consensus guidelines for the field of emergency psychiatry.[4][5]

Clinical practice guidelines[]

AAEP's Project BETA (Best practices in Evaluation and Treatment of Agitation) is a set of clinical practice guidelines designed to address the treatment of agitation in the acute, emergency psychiatric setting. Published in February 2012, the guidelines have been described by Dr. , MD, AAEP Past President, as being "more humane, patient-centered interventions."[6] The guidelines rely less upon restraint techniques, and more upon de-escalation techniques that encourage patient buy-in to the management of their agitation.[7]

References[]

  1. ^ a b Zeller, Scott L. "The Rise in Emergency Psychiatry". UBM Medica, LLC. Retrieved 8 May 2017.
  2. ^ "Journals - Journal of the American Association for Emergency Psychiatry". emergencypsychiatry.org. American Association for Emergency Psychiatry. Retrieved 8 May 2017.
  3. ^ "Recent Jobs". emergencypsychiatry-jobs.careerwebsite.com/. American Association for Emergency Psychiatry. Retrieved 8 May 2017.
  4. ^ Anderson, EL; Nordstrom, K; Wilson, MP; Peltzer-Jones, JM; Zun, L; Ng, A; Allen, MH (February 2017). "American Association for Emergency Psychiatry Task Force on Medical Clearance of Adults Part I: Introduction, Review and Evidence-Based Guidelines". West J Emerg Med. 18 (2): 235–242. doi:10.5811/westjem.2016.10.32258. PMC 5305131. PMID 28210358.
  5. ^ Stowell, KR; Florence, P; Harman, HJ; Glick, RL (February 2012). "Psychiatric evaluation of the agitated patient: consensus statement of the american association for emergency psychiatry project Beta psychiatric evaluation workgroup". West J Emerg Med. 13 (1). doi:10.5811/westjem.2011.9.6868. PMC 3298217. PMID 22461916.
  6. ^ Zeller, Scott. "New Guidelines Shake Up Treatment of Agitation". Psychiatric Times. UBM Medica, LLC. Retrieved 24 May 2017.
  7. ^ Scheck, Anne (February 2011). "Special Report: Project BETA Stresses Verbal De-escalation for Agitated ED Patients". Emergency Medicine News. Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. pp. 19–20. doi:10.1097/01.EEM.0000394575.73247.2a.


This article about a United States health organization is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .

  • v
  • t
Retrieved from ""