Treatment of Suicidal Patients in Managed Care.

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Titles

• Full Title: Treatment of Suicidal Patients in Managed Care.

Notes

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Cover -- 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 Patient8217;s Managed Care Organization -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.

Identifiers

• Isbns: 1281765414; 9781281765413
• Oclc Number: (OCoLC)747083593

Publication Statement

• Publisher: American Psychiatric Publishing Inc
• Date: 2001

Physical Description

• Extent: 1 online resource (240)

Table Of Contents

• Cover -- 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 Patient8217;s Managed Care Organization -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.

Summary

• Suicide remains all too common in the United States. As the ninth leading cause of death--responsible for 30,000 deaths annually--it is also one of the more preventable causes of death. Increasingly, mental health clinicians must care for suicidal patients within managed care systems. Managed care's cost-driven focus on rapid assessment and triage, narrowly restrictive hospital admission criteria, and abbreviated inpatient stays have resulted in poorer clinical care and increased opportunities both for adverse outcomes such as suicide and for clinician liability. Bringing together a unique mix of clinicians, authorities, and administrators from private practice and managed care, Treatment of Suicidal Patients in Managed Care offers practical guidance on how to improve care and reduce risk for suicidal patients. Inpatient versus outpatient treatments, alternative programs such as cognitive-behavioral 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 with clarity and sensitivity in this remarkable book. This clinical guide will aid understanding of clinical, administrative, and risk management issues relevant to the care of suicidal patients. Psychiatrists, psychologists, nurse clinical specialists, social workers, administrators, and primary care physicians will also rely on it as they cope with the mounting pressures of managed care while maintaining the quality of their care for these vulnerable and patients.

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