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Milieu Management of a Child with Bipolar Illness
Author(s) -
Beal Davena,
Delaney Kathleen R.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
journal of child and adolescent psychiatric nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.331
H-Index - 35
eISSN - 1744-6171
pISSN - 1073-6077
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-6171.2005.00020.x
Subject(s) - seclusion , bipolar illness , bipolar disorder , affect (linguistics) , psychiatry , psychology , interrupt , medicine , cognition , mania , communication , transmission (telecommunications) , electrical engineering , engineering
During inpatient psychiatric treatment, children with bipolar disorder may present particular management issues. They may experience intense periods of affect regulation that can spiral into frenetic, aggressive behaviors that are difficult to interrupt with de‐escalation techniques. This case study presents such a child and the behavior patterns that resulted in seclusion and PRN medication. Also presented is the plan that staff derived which eventually helped this young boy regulate his behavior.