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

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Emergency psychiatric evaluations focus quickly on safety, identifying threat of self-harm, harm to others, or inability to take care of oneself, assisting urgent interventions.