ABSTRACT
Discover an alternative realm of psychiatry—without offices or couches!
The Casebook of a Residential Care Psychiatrist: Psychopharmacosocioeconomics and the Treatment of Schizophrenia in Residential Care Facilities addresses the problems involved in the onsite treatment of mentally ill patients in residential care facilities. This book is the first to identify the need for psychiatrists to be available to individuals in such facilities as adult homes, community care homes, transitional living facilities, and rest homes. This vital resource also contains specific recommendations as to how these visits should be conducted with regard to frequency, duration, space, and the types of Medicare procedure codes to utilize.
In The Casebook of a Residential Care Psychiatrist, Dr. Fleishman uses his 40 years of experience as a psychiatrist to show you the ins and outs of practicing psychiatry in residential facilities. The book also discusses the profound changes psychiatric drugs have produced in the social, economic, and legal arenas. Using anecdotes, personal stories, and actual documents from Dr. Fleishman’s files, this book provides you with a wealth of knowledge not found anywhere else.
With this book, you’ll learn more about:
- time-saving interview/assessment techniques
- the importance of psychopharmacology in residential care and how it has changed the practice of psychiatry
- Dr. Fleishman’s method for appropriately creating and using progress notes and other records during treatment
- ways to work with other members of the residential facility professional community—including psychologists, social workers, pharmacists, and administrators—to make everyone’s job easier
- the best ways to control paperwork obligations
- the impact that federal, state, and local government agencies have had on mental health spending, services, and practitioners
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |13 pages
Introduction
part |29 pages
The Places
chapter |3 pages
What Is a Residential Care Facility?
chapter |6 pages
The Problem of the Problem
chapter |11 pages
The History
chapter |5 pages
The Facility
part |67 pages
The People
part |193 pages
The Problems
chapter |38 pages
How It Should Be Done: Space, Time, and Techniques
chapter |15 pages
The Problems of Frequency and Duration
chapter |16 pages
Why Do It?
chapter |13 pages
The Residential Care Facility First-Aid Paperwork Reduction Kit
chapter |38 pages
The Legal Problems
chapter |5 pages
The Medicare Audit Process
chapter |16 pages
Progress Note Problems
chapter |16 pages
Special Problems
chapter |10 pages
Suicide
chapter |21 pages
IM Medications—How to Do It and Why
part |22 pages
Remembrances of Things Past
chapter |5 pages
School Days
chapter |5 pages
How to Fail in Psychology Without Really Trying
chapter |8 pages
Life in the Prechlorpromazinei Era of Nongeological Time
part |28 pages
Issues in Psychopharmacosocioeconomics
chapter |4 pages
How Antipsychotic Drugs Have Changed the World
chapter |5 pages
The Cost of the Treatment of Schizophrenia for Society
chapter |6 pages
The Costs of the Treatment of Schizophrenia for the Patient
chapter |7 pages
How On-Site Services Can Reduce the Costs of Treatment
part |27 pages
Summing Up