This book serves as an ideal guide for those seeking to take the certification exam in community psychiatry. It features topical chapters authored by a nationally and internationally recognized experts and addresses the future of the field.
During the past decade or more, there has been a rapid evolution of mental health services and treatment technologies, shifting psychiatric epidemiology, changes in public behavioral health policy and increased understanding in medicine regarding approaches to clinical work that focus on patient-centeredness. These contemporary issues need to be articulated in a comprehensive format. The American Association of Community Psychiatrists (AACP), a professional organization internationally recognized as holding the greatest concentration of expertise in the field, has launched a methodical process to create a competency certification in community psychiatry. As a reference for a certification examination, that effort will benefit enormously from a comprehensive handbook on the subject.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction: What is Community Psychiatry? . - Background: Community Psychiatry and History. - Basic Psychiatric Epidemiology. - Financing. - Advocacy: Community Organizing and Politics. - Recovery and Person-centered Care. - Context-specific Clinical Assessment. - Team-based Treatment. - Family Therapy in Public Sector Settings. - Motivational Interviewing. - Group Modalities/techniques. - Psychiatric Rehabilitation. - Case Management. - Physical Wellness. - Working with Peers. - Cultural Competence. - Assertive Community Treatment. - Family Psychoeducation. - Co-occuring Chemical Dependency and Mental Illnesses. - Supported Employment. - Illness Self-management and Recovery. - Psychopharmacology and its Adherence. - Trauma-based interventions. - Cognitive Therapy of Schizophrenia. - Clubhouse Models. - Supported Housing Models. - Telepsychiatry. - Integrated Primary and Mental Health Care. - Innovative Acute Care Models: Mobile, Emergency, Crisis Residential, Inpatient. - Innovative Programming in Chemical Dependency. - Innovative International Community Behavioral Health Models. - Criminal Justice: Diversion and Incarceration. - Homelessness. - Children and Youth. - Elders. - Rural Psychiatry. - Disaster Response. - Creating a Welcoming Service Environment. - Systems Transformation / engineering. - The Role of the Medical Director. - Program Evaluation. - How to be Successful in Research in Clinical Settings. - Medical Students and Residency. - Community/Public Psychiatry Fellowships. - Mentoring. - Ethics.
