Managing Patients with Behavioral Health Issues describes appropriate assessment of patients who may pose a danger to themselves or others, the imperative to clearly communicate discharge instructions to a potentially suicidal patient’s family, dangers of diagnosing somatoform disorders or psychosomatic illness before ruling out possible organic disease, and the importance of evaluating patients in the intensive care unit for hallucinatory or delusional behavior that may result in self-harm or injury to others.
