Overview

Increasingly, mental health clinicians, in America, must care for suicidal patients within managed care systems. This text brings together clinicians, authorities and administrators from private practice and managed care to offer practical guidance on how to improve care and reduce risk for patients. Inpatient versus outpatient treatments, alternative programmes such as cognitive-behavioural strategies and dialectical behavior therapy, adolescent suicide, suicide risk in the elderly, suicide and substance abuse, pharmacotherapy of depression and suicidality, risk management issues such as diagnostic accuracy, and a step-by-step process for counseling everyone affected in the aftermath of a suicide are all detailed in this book. This guide should aid understanding of risk management issues relevant to the care of suicidal patients.

Full Product Details

Author:   James M. Ellison
Publisher:   American Psychiatric Association Publishing
Imprint:   American Psychiatric Association Publishing
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.80cm
Weight:   0.333kg
ISBN:  

9780880488280

ISBN 10:   088048828
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   30 January 2001
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Inactive
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

Contributors Acknowledgments Foreword Chapter 1. Treating suicidal patients in the managed care environment Chapter 2. Managed crisis care for suicidal patients Chapter 3. Managed care, brief hospitalization, and alternatives to hospitalization in the care of suicidal patients Chapter 4. Suicidal adolescents in managed care Chapter 5. Suicide in the elderly Chapter 6. Substance abuse and suicidal behavior in managed care Chapter 7. Psychiatric pharmacotherapy, suicide, and managed care Chapter 8. Risk management issues for clinicians who treat suicidal patients in managed systems Chapter 9. In the aftermath of suicide: Needs and interventions Appendix A: The formulation of suicide risk Appendix B: Getting more of what is needed from your patient's managed care organization Index

Reviews

<p> Treatment of Suicidal Patients in Managed Care is a uniquely valuable resource for all clinicians. It concisely integrates the best thinking on the appropriate management of the suicidal patient by acknowledged experts and the understanding of how to provide this treatment in the climate of managed care. Dr. Ellison's editing brings clarity, organization and compassion to the guidance for clinicians to enable them to get the best possible care for their suicidal patient. The appendix 'Getting More of What is Needed from Your Patient's Managed Care Organization' is a must read for every clinician in training or practice. -- Myron L. Belfer, M.D., M.P.A, Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Senior Associate in Psychiatry, Boston Children's Hospital

Any practicing mental health professional will benefit from a careful reading of this well-written book. * Doody Publishing *

Author Information

James M. Ellison, M.D., M.P.H., is Associate Clinical Professor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, a consultant to The Cambridge Hospital Psychiatry Department, and Interim Clinical Director of Geriatric Psychiatry at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts. He is also President of the Northeast Affiliate of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.

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