Psychiatric Intensive Care

Roland Dix is a Consultant Nurse in Psychiatric Intensive Care and Secure Recovery working at Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust and the Montpellier Secure Recovery Service in Gloucester. He is also Founding Editor in Chief for the Journal of Psychiatric Intensive Care, an Executive Committee member for the National Association of Psychiatric Intensive Care Units (NAPICU) and Honorary Associate Professor at Norwich Medical School. Stephen Dye is a Consultant Psychiatrist at the Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust in Ipswich and is an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of East Anglia in Norwich. Stephen M. Pereira is a Consultant Psychiatrist and Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Specialist working at Keats House in London, Medical Director of The Insight Network and the founder and CEO of Happence. He is also an honorary Senior Lecturer of Psychiatry at Guys, Kings and St. Thomas's School of Medicine at King's College London.

1. Psychiatric intensive care – development and definition Stephen M. Pereira and Stephen Dye; 2. Psychiatric intensive care in mental health secure units Harvey Gordon; 3. National standards and good practice Stephen Dye; 4. Commissioning and developing a PICU Thomas Kearney and Mathew Page; 5. PICU design, environment and security Roland Dix and Mathew Page; 6. Team resilience Thomas Kearney and Stephen Dye; 7. Principles and practice for management of acutely disturbed patients Stephen M. Pereira and Lucy M. Walker; 8. Absconding Roland Dix; 9. Substance misuse Lucy M. Walker and Stephen M. Pereira; 10. Fire setting and arson Elliott Carthy, Brad Hilller and Faisil Sethi; 11. Sexually problematic behaviour in mental health in-patient units Roland Dix; 12. Self-harm and personality disorders in PICU Reena Panchal and James Baker; 13. Activity and Positive Engagement within A PICU Wendy Sherwood, Rebecca Davies and Robert Rathouse; 14. De-escalation Roland Dix and Mathew Page; 15. Psychological approaches to the acute patient in PICU's Marc Jonathon Kingsley; 16. A social behaviour theory approach to challenging behaviours in psychosis Brian McKensie; 17. Pharmacological therapy Chike I. Okocha and Jules Haste; 18. Rapid tranquillisation Ross Runciman, Steve Ireland and Brenda Wasunna-Smith; 19. The use of seclusion in mental health care Roland Dix and Mathew Page; 20. The practice of restraint and physical intervention Roland Dix; 21. Management of the mental health emergency in the community Mathew Page and Matthew Truscott; 22. PICU for the care of young people Mathew Page; 23. Female only PICUs Joana Ferreira Marques de Paiva and Shanika Balachandra; 24. The complex needs patient Sanjith Kamath and Vishelle Kamath; 25. Psychiatric intensive care in a general hospital setting Jim Welch, Karen Williams and Emma Phillips; 26. An overview of international perspectives on psychiatric intensive care units Angus Mclellan and Andrew Molodynski.