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Integrated Care
An integrated, collaborative model for more comprehensive patient care Creating Effective Mental and Primary Health Care Teams provides the practical information, skills, and clinical approaches needed to implement an integrated collaborative care program and support the members of the care team as they learn this new, evidence-based, legislatively mandated care delivery system. Unique in presenting information specifically designed to be used in an integrated, collaborative care workflow, this book provides specific guidance for each member of the team. Care managers, consulting psychiatrists, primary care providers, and administrators alike can finally get on the same page in regard to pat...
Integrated Teams in Primary Care
Rewritten with the new primary care environment in mind, this greatly expanded and updated edition of Child Mental Health in Primary Care extends the structured approach of the first edition to adoelscent mental health. As in the first edition, Primary Child and Adolescent Mental Health covers each problem in a uniform way, offering definitions, assessment outlines, detailed management options and indications for referral. Numerous case examples further illuminate aspects of many conditions. Comprehensive and practical, the forty-eight chapters of Primary Child and Adolescent Mental Health cover the full range of difficulties and disabilities affecting the mental health of children and young...
Community Mental Health Teams
Community Mental Health Teams (CMHTs) have evolved over the last 30-40 years to serve patients with mental illnesses who would previously have been treated in large mental hospitals. They play a pivotal role in the provision of mental health care in the developed world. Consisting of nurses, doctors, social workers, and psychologists, the people within these teams work together to care for individuals with severe mental illnesses outside the hospital. Because CMHTs have evolved, rather than been developed, little has been written about how they should work - how the multidisciplinary members of the teams can work effectively together, who should do what within the team. This is the first boo...
Team Processes in Mental Health Care
The "managed care" model of health care refers to organizational techniques intended to reduce health care provision costs while improving quality of care. One technique this model necessitates is "team care" as opposed to single-clinician care for patients. Status characteristics theory suggests that relative differences in social status among mental health care providers can affect team building and decision making processes, and that these interrelated social processes may, in turn, affect team outcomes including patient health. Implications of status characteristics, team building, and decision making processes for patient health outcomes have not been examined empirically. In three inte...
Clinical Management in Mental Health Services
Clinical Management in Mental Health Services is a practical guide to the day to day operational management of mental health teams. It explores both the theoretical aspects of management plus strategies for dealing with the wide range of management issues faced by managers working in mental health. It looks at issues such as leading a multidisciplinary team, Communication and Public Relations, the importance of clinical supervision, evidence-based practice, and quality assurance. It addresses the issue of workload management, clinical information management, how to plan a budget and how to manage stress.
Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment in Mental Health
Crisis resolution and home treatment teams respond rapidly to people experiencing mental health crises and offer an alternative to hospital admission. They are an increasingly important component of mental health care and are adopted by many health care systems around the world. This practical and pioneering book describes the evidence for the effectiveness of such teams, the principles underpinning them, how to set up and organise them, how patients should be assessed and what types of care the teams should offer. Other topics covered include integration of crisis teams with in-patient, community residential and day care services, the service users' experiences of crisis teams, and responding to diversity in home treatment. This book is essential reading for all policy makers, service managers and mental health workers interested in establishing or operating crisis resolution and home treatment services, as well as for researchers and students seeking to understand this model.
Managing Mental Health Services
This is a practical, no-nonsense book designed to help managers of mental health services cope, survive and constructively fulfil their role. It has been written to help managers to function in an increasingly complex mental health service arena. In clear, jargon-free language it aims to demystify key managerial terms, to provide an understandable summary of the relevant policy and legal framework, and to provide signposts to assist managers in making their way through the maze of service planning and service development options.
Community Mental Health Teams
Provides practical advice for those working within community mental health teams, addressing the needs of individual specialists and providing clinical advice based on proven methods.
Clinical Audit in Mental Health
This book fully describes the purpose, methods, and implementation of clinical audit programs in mental health care in order to meet the demands of purchasers, providers, clinicians, carers and patients. It provides a practical guide to implementation in hospital and community settings. Applies well-established models for clinical audit to mental health care. Reflects current trends in quality assurance in health care. Provides detailed, specific advice on assessing the effectiveness of mental health treatment programs.
Promoting Collaboration in Primary Mental Health Care
This text describes the various models of collaborative care within primary mental health care. It illustrates the diversity of collaboration in the delivery of this care and shows how this collaboration has come about, how it exists today and how it might be best developed for the future. The book provides practical guidance for practitioners on how to break down barriers to collaboration and how to work most effectively with their colleagues within primary care. Each chapter is written by health care professionals from the primary care discipline under discussion.
