Prehospital Behavioral Emergencies & Crisis Response

Prehospital Behavioral Emergencies and Crisis Response was designed to complement Jones & Bartlett Learning's Continuing Education series. This resource educates readers on the crisis and behavioral health issues of patients in the prehospital environment. Separated into three parts, coverage includes: the acute behavioral crisis, chronic mental health issues, and prehospital response. Prehospital Behavioral Emergencies and Crisis Response simplifies various types of diagnosed mental disorders such as mood, personality, eating, and sleeping, as well as schizophrenia and psychosis. This is a great resource for continuing education courses and is also appropriate for any basic, intermediate, or paramedic prehospital provider course.
Prehospital Behavioral Emergencies and Crisis Response offers prehospital providers and mental health professionals a comprehensive resource on effectively handling behavioral emergencies ranging from large-scale disasters, to substance related emergencies, to psychotic disorders. This timely text also provides prehospital providers with suggestions for coping with job-related stress. The text incorporates well-known information-gathering tools such as SAMPLE and OPQRST, as well as two essential new tools for evaluating patients in a behavioral emergency: the SEA-3, a brief and simple assessment tool designed specifically for gathering information about a patients mental status, and the SAFER-R model, a simple, yet thorough tool designed to help the emergency responder devise a quick and easy treatment plan to helping those in crisis.
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Involved in EMS since 1975, and a paramedic since 1982, Dwight Polk is currently a volunteer paramedic in Maryland. He has held the position of Paramedic Program Director at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) since 1990. Prior to arriving at UMBC, Mr. Polk was a field paramedic and Education Coordinator at Acadian Ambulance Service in Lafayette, Louisiana. In 1996, Mr. Polk completed his Master's Degree in Occupational Social Work at UMBC; specializing in Employee Assistance Programs. As part of his clinical Master's Degree, Mr. Polk participated in two specialized internships: first, providing psychotherapy to patients with head injuries at Sinai Hospital of Baltimore; and second, in an employee assistance program at the National Security Agency (NSA). After receiving licensure as a social worker in the State of Maryland, Mr. Polk became active in the field of Critical Incident Stress, while studying under the mentorship of Jeffrey Mitchell, PhD, President Emeritus of the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation. Mr. Polk is still an active mental health professional for two CISM teams in the Baltimore area, and is a Crisis Intervention Training (CIT) instructor for the Howard County (MD) Mental Health Authority and Howard County Police Department. Since February of 2005, Mr. Polk has held a contractual position as a mobile crisis team (MCT) member for the Grassroots Crisis Center in Columbia, Maryland. As an MCT member, he responds to various scenes to conduct crisis intervention for individuals and families, or psychiatric evaluations for emergency petition (72 hour emergency commitment).