Psychiatric Intensive Care

1. Psychiatric intensive care – development and definition Stephen M. Pereira and Stephen Dye; 2. Psychiatric intensive care in mental health secure units Harvey Gordon; 3. National standards and good practice Stephen Dye; 4. Commissioning and developing a PICU Thomas Kearney and Mathew Page; 5. PICU design, environment and security Roland Dix and Mathew Page; 6. Team resilience Thomas Kearney and Stephen Dye; 7. Principles and practice for management of acutely disturbed patients Stephen M. Pereira and Lucy M. Walker; 8. Absconding Roland Dix; 9. Substance misuse Lucy M. Walker and Stephen M. Pereira; 10. Fire setting and arson Elliott Carthy, Brad Hilller and Faisil Sethi; 11. Sexually problematic behaviour in mental health in-patient units Roland Dix; 12. Self-harm and personality disorders in PICU Reena Panchal and James Baker; 13. Activity and Positive Engagement within A PICU Wendy Sherwood, Rebecca Davies and Robert Rathouse; 14. De-escalation Roland Dix and Mathew Page; 15. Psychological approaches to the acute patient in PICU's Marc Jonathon Kingsley; 16. A social behaviour theory approach to challenging behaviours in psychosis Brian McKensie; 17. Pharmacological therapy Chike I. Okocha and Jules Haste; 18. Rapid tranquillisation Ross Runciman, Steve Ireland and Brenda Wasunna-Smith; 19. The use of seclusion in mental health care Roland Dix and Mathew Page; 20. The practice of restraint and physical intervention Roland Dix; 21. Management of the mental health emergency in the community Mathew Page and Matthew Truscott; 22. PICU for the care of young people Mathew Page; 23. Female only PICUs Joana Ferreira Marques de Paiva and Shanika Balachandra; 24. The complex needs patient Sanjith Kamath and Vishelle Kamath; 25. Psychiatric intensive care in a general hospital setting Jim Welch, Karen Williams and Emma Phillips; 26. An overview of international perspectives on psychiatric intensive care units Angus Mclellan and Andrew Molodynski.