Medical Xpress January 10, 2025
When we think of a mental health crisis, we often imagine an unpredictable and intense manifestation of a negative mental state.
And in a clinical setting, that state is assessed primarily from a biomedical perspective, with the emphasis on diagnosing, treating and medicating a person in acute distress.
But what if there were more to the picture?
Emilie Hudson, a doctoral student supervised by Université de Montréal nursing professor Marie-Hélène Goulet, thinks there is. She’s come up with a new definition of mental health crisis that goes beyond the strictly biomedical. Her research is published in the International Journal of Mental Health Nursing.
“While existing definitions seem to recognize the contextual facets of a crisis,” she said, “the concepts are...
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