title: [Acute psychiatry].
abstract: The author discusses psychological assessment and treatment of acute mental disorder in general practice. An initial assessment by telephone may provide the physician with important information about the nature of the problems and the patient's state of mind. Later, the immediate impression upon seeing the patient, and further observation during the consultation, are sources of important clinical information. The paper purports the view that psychological control over the situation is best achieved by means of psychological techniques adjusted to the specific behavioural disturbance in question. Drugs should only be used as one of several secondary options in the treatment of acute psychiatric disturbances with a non-organic etiology.
authors.affiliation: Psykosomatisk avdeling, Rikshospitalet, Oslo.
authors.forename: U F
authors.initials: UF
authors.lastname: Malt
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D003419:Crisis Intervention; D005194:Family Practice; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D013689:Telephone
vernacular_title: Akutt psykiatri.