ACCOGLIMENTO DELL’ADOLESCENTE NELL’URGENZA PSICHIATRICA

First part of the paper present a brief introduction where significances and differences about the concept of psychiatric emergencies are explained according to literature. The therapeutic approach to the adolescent are described and discussed, considering hospitalisation, residential and outpatients’ interventions the meaning possibilities to replay to a psychiatric emergency. In the second part of the paper the authors present and analyse data from a case report study regarding adolescents who came to the centre they work in a situation of emergency. They are 344 individuals, 59% males and 59% females, aged 11 to 19 years.