Crisis Admission Units and Emergency Psychiatric Services

The objectives of this study were: 1. To review briefly some aspects of the literature on crisis intervention and psychiatric emergency services of special interest to psychiatrists. 2. To select and vi- sit a number of centres in europe that have special experience in psychiatric aspects of crisis intervention work. 3. To describe the setting and methods of work of the centres visited, giving special emphasis to aspects often not mentioned in published reports (Such as details of daily work programmes, relationship with other ser- vices and the development of multidisciplinary teamwork).