Handbook on Optimizing Patient Care in Psychiatry

This handbook examines current mental health research, challenges in patient care, and advances in clinical psychiatry with the aim of improving approaches toward the screening of at-risk individuals, facilitating access to care, and supervising rehabilitation. Combining evidence-based research with clinical case studies, international experts provide detailed, holistic insights into our understanding of mental disorders through biological, social, interpersonal, and economical lenses. Models of intervention, prevention, and treatment are provided, along with methods for continued care and patient advocacy. Finally, experts analyze the future of psychiatric research and mental health care. Readers will gain greater understanding of the finer nuances of handling psychiatric cases and a holistic perspective of optimizing patient care within this field. This innovative book contributes to the development of community management of various psychiatric disorders and will be of interest to case managers, mental health workers, doctors, nurses, and many more.

Dr. Amresh Shrivastava is a professor emeritus of psychiatry at Western University and a scientist of mental health at Lawson Health Research Institute, located in London, Ontario, Canada. His areas of focus include suicide prevention, early intervention and complex mental disorders. He has served as an editor, reviewer and member of the editorial board of psychiatric journals and published original research reviews, book chapters, academic and non-fiction academic books. Dr Avinash De Sousa is a consultant psychiatrist who is an avid writer and researcher with over 800 papers in national and international journals. He juggles his time between his teaching assignments and private practice and also enjoys being part of new research projects that investigates novel area in psychiatry and psychology. Dr. Nilesh Shah is the professor and head at the Department of Psychiatry, Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College, Mumbai and is an ardent teacher and researcher and an often-invited speaker and lecturer at various national and international conferences.

Section 1: Concept and Scope of Optimisation of Patient Care in Psychiatry 1. Educational Strategies to Optimise Patient Care in Psychiatry 2. Optimising Patient Care in Psychiatry - Focus on Quality of Life 3. Optimising Patient Care in Psychiatry with Sound Mental Health Legislation 4. Improving Outcomes in Patients by Public Health and Mental Health Integration 5. Building Resilience at a Community and Family Level for Care in Psychiatry Section 2: Specific Strategies for Management 6. Comprehensive Management of Violence Against Women: Putting WHO Recommendations into Practice 7. Mental Health Access to the Unreached Using Mobile Mental Health 8. Optimising Patient Care when working with Children of Patients with Mental Illness 9. Forensic Risk Assessment and Management of Community Case Managed clients 10. Optimising Patient Care in Sexual Dysfunction in Severe Mental Illness 11. Optimising Patient Care in Psychiatry with Autonomy and Choice 12. Neurocognitive rehabilitation program for people with mild cognitive impairment - "Memory Clinic" 13. Huntington's disease as a multi-system disorder: current "must know" for better patient management Section 3: High Risk Groups 14. Optimising Patient Care in Psychiatry - Bipolar Mood Disorder 15. Optimising Patient Care - Pharmacogenetics in the management of Addictions 16. Optimising Patient Care in Psychiatry - Behavioral Addictions 17. Optimising Patient Care in Psychiatry - Eating Disorders 18. Optimising Patient Care in Psychiatry - Homeless Mentally ill patients 19. Challenges in Community Psychiatry - Farmer Suicides and their Survivors 20. Optimising Patient Care in Psychiatry - Geriatric Psychiatry 21. Optimising Patient Care in Psychiatry - Borderline Personality Disorder 22. Optimising Patient Care in Dementia 23. Optimising Patient Care in Attenuated Psychosis Syndrome 24. Optimising Patient Care in Psychiatry - Anxiety Disorders 25. Optimising Patient Care in Sleep Disorders 26. Optimising Patient Care in Psychiatry - OCD and Habit Disorders 27. Optimising Patient Care in Alcohol Dependence using Disulfiram Therapy 28. Optimising Patient Care using Naltrexone for Opioid Use Disorders 29. Optimising Patient Care - Suicide Prevention 30. Optimising Patient Care in Psychiatry - Focus on Consultation Liaison Psychiatry 31. Differential Awareness of Some Psychiatric Presentations Section 4: Innovations in the Model of Care 32. Optimising Patient Care in Psychiatry using Cognitive Behavior Therapy 33. Optimising Patient Care in Psychiatry with Policy and Practice of ECT in Malaysia 34. Rehabilitation and Case Management Using Cognitive Remediation Therapy 35. Optimising Patient Care with Effective Psychotherapeutic Interventions 36. Telepsychiatry as a means to Optimising Psychiatric Care 37. Smartphone Technology to Optimize Psychiatric Care in the Community 38. Optimising School Mental Health Services 39. Optimising Patient Care in Psychiatry - Focus on Forensic Psychiatry 40. Optimising Patient Care in the Community Using Psychopharmacology 41. Chronic Mental Illness and Experience of the Richmond Fellowship Programme 42. Innovative Community Mental Health Approaches from Across the Globe 43. Optimising Patient Care in Psychiatry - Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 44. Community Psychiatry - The Argentina Experience 45. Optimising Assessment using the House Tree Person Test 46. Challenges in Patient Care in the Aftermath of an Epidemic and Pandemic 47. Optimising Psychiatric Care Using Functional Neuroimaging 48. Personalized psychiatry of psychoneurological diseases: from theory to clinical practice 49. Exploring fNIRS potential as an investigational tool in psychiatry 50. Optimising Patient Care in Psychiatry - Psychosocial Rehabilitation 51. Optimising Patient Care in Psychiatry - Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic