Handbook of Community Psychiatry

Hunter L. McQuistion, MD is Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons and Director of the Division of Outpatient & Community Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health at The St. Luke's & Roosevelt Hospitals in New York City. Wesley E. Sowers, MD is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center; Director, Center for Public Service Psychiatry Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic; and Medical Director, Allegheny County Office of Behavioral Health. Jules M. Ranz, MD is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons and Director of the Public Psychiatry Fellowship, N.Y.S. Psychiatric Institute. Jacqueline Maus Feldman, MD is the Patrick H. Linton Professor and Vice Chair for Clinical Services in the Department of Psychiatry/University of Alabama at Birmingham.

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.