Emergency situation psychiatric assessments focus rapidly on safety, figuring out risk of self-harm, harm to others

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Emergency situation psychiatric assessments focus rapidly on security, identifying risk of self-harm, damage to others, or failure to take care of oneself, directing immediate interventions.