Treatment Planning: Collected Columns from Hospital and Community Psychiatry

Foreword. Reducing environmental stress for a sucidal ten-year-old. Managing an acutely manic 17-year-old gril with Neuroleptic malignant syndrome. Treating a homeless mentally ill patient who cannot be managed in the shelter system. Treatinga a man with depression and chronic pain through a multimodal approach. Woman with panic disorder is reluctant to seek, participate in treatment. Considering family versus other therapies after a teenager's suicide attempt. Chronic patient has numerous changes in drugs, therapists; makes only limited gains. Prior cognitive problems as the key to treating a patient with resistant depression. Elderly patient's confusion confounds diagnosis and treatment of depression. Determining how a depressed woman's personality affects the choice of treatment. Detoxifying and treating a woman who has been unable to stop drinking. Boy with seriously ill mother manifests somatic complaints, withdrawal, disabling fears.