Suicide by Security Blanket, and Other Stories from the Child Psychiatry Emergency Service: What happens to children with acute mental illness
by Laura M. Prager and Abigail L. Donovan
Praeger Books
In Suicide by Security Blanket, Laura Prager, HMS assistant professor of psychiatry and director of the Child Psychiatry Emergency Service at Massachusetts General Hospital and Abigail Donovan, HMS assistant professor of psychiatry at Mass General discuss the work of child psychiatry emergency medicine.
Each chapter highlights a different child’s case. These real-life patient vignettes offer a multitude of teaching points concerning child development and the warning signs of illness, and provide lessons regarding different types of interactions with the school system, health care system and family system.
This book vividly demonstrates how even the best of intentions within the community can fail to offer services to the neediest of families. Each story provides a glimpse into the complicated and sometimes heartbreaking world of child psychiatry.
Suicide by Security Blanket is part of the Praeger series on contemporary health and living.
