Psychological emergency and urgent care: a research and interventions overview

This article presents an integrative review of the literature on emergency psychological services, highlighting the major research and interventions in this area. Searches were conducted in LILACS, SciELO, PePSIC, PsycINFO and the Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations, University of São Paulo from 2000 to 2014. 47 publications were analyzed in their entirety. The profile is predominantly of qualitative, empirical studies and experience reports developed in School Psychological Services with students, supervisors and persons who are attended in the emergency service, from the phenomenological-existential scope. We emphasize the need of dialogue of these reports with theoretical knowledge in the area as well as enhanced by research. Practices can be more diverse in theory and developed within communities.