RT Book, Section A1 Moore, Catherine Porter A2 Tenenbein, Milton A2 Macias, Charles G. A2 Sharieff, Ghazala Q. A2 Yamamoto, Loren G. A2 Schafermeyer, Robert SR Print(0) ID 1155750424 T1 Psychiatric Emergencies T2 Strange and Schafermeyer's Pediatric Emergency Medicine, 5e YR 2019 FD 2019 PB McGraw-Hill Education PP New York, NY SN 9781259860751 LK accessemergencymedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1155750424 RD 2024/10/10 AB In all cases of psychiatric emergencies, organic disease must be ruled out.The majority of adolescents are relieved to discuss psychiatric issues and actively seek treatment.It is essential to introduce community resources such as counseling resources, crisis lines, and substance abuse resources to patients and families.Suicide is common in adolescents: 20% to 25% of American adolescents have considered suicide seriously, 9% have attempted it, and it is the third leading cause of death in 15- to 24-year olds and fifth in 5- to 14-year olds.Suicide National Hotline: 1-800-suicide.Schizophrenia tends to run in families.Conversion/somatization disorder is characterized by the presence of apparent physical disease that cannot be delineated organically and has pathologic origination in the psyche, which may present as abdominal pain, respiratory difficulty (paradoxical vocal cord dysfunction), pseudoseizures, and other somatoform disorders.