Discover an alternative realm of psychiatry-without offices or couches! The Casebook of a Residential Care Psychiatrist:Psychopharmacosocioeconomics and the Treatment of Schizophrenia inResidential Care Facilities addresses the problems involved in the onsitetreatment of mentally ill patients in residential care facilities. Thisbook is the first to identify the need for psychiatrists to be available toindividuals in such facilities as adult homes, community care homes,transitional living facilities, and rest homes. This vital resource alsocontains specific recommendations as to how these visits should beconducted with regard to frequency, duration, space, and the types ofMedicare procedure codes to utilize. In The Casebook of a Residential Care Psychiatrist, Dr. Fleishman uses his40 years of experience as a psychiatrist to show you the ins and outs ofpracticing psychiatry in residential facilities. The book also discussesthe profound changes psychiatric drugs have produced in the social,economic, and legal arenas. Using anecdotes, personal stories, and actualdocuments from Dr. Fleishman’s files, this book provides you with a wealthof 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 professionalcommunity-including psychologists, social workers, pharmacists, andadministrators-to make everyone’s job easier the best ways to control paperwork obligations the impact that federal, state, and local government agencies have had onmental health spending, services, and practitioners In The Casebook of a Residential Care Psychiatrist, you will find wisdom,knowledge, and advice along with case studies, tables and examples. Whilefocused on psychiatry and schizophrenia, this book will be of interest tomental health workers, long-term caregivers, and residential facilityadministrators as well as psychiatrists and psychologists.

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