Tag Evan Symons

Family violence

Essentials 1 Family violence encompasses physical, sexual, financial and psychological abuse. 2 All forms of family violence are inter-related in a complex way. Victims of violence may suffer many forms of abuse over their lives. 3 Between 30% and 50%…

Psychosis

Essentials 1 In the age of community mental health treatment, emergency departments have become major sites for the assessment of patients with psychosis. 2 An important responsibility of the emergency department clinician is to exclude delirium and ‘organic’ causes of…