Mental Health

Mental Health Documentation in the Nursing Home (Download Only)

A web-based, downloadable monograph created to assist primary care physicians (medical directors and attending physicians) in documenting mental health issues as required by law. Content is organized to walk physicians through five specific stages of mental health documentation: preadmission; admission; at times of cognitive/behavioral mood changes; monitoring processes once an intervention has been implemented; and, clinical and regulatory documentation necessary when residents are placed on psychoactive medications. It provides sample data-gathering collection tools, templates, and forms to record decisions on and monitor use of psychoactive medications.

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Product Code: MHD1
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Practical Psychiatry in the Long Term Care Home: A Handbook for Staff

3rd completely revised and expanded edition 2007; David K. Conn, Nathan Herrmann, Alanna Kaye, Dmytro Rewilak, Barbara Schogt (Editors).  Hogrefe & Huber Publishers.  328 pages, hardcover

This book is aimed at providing training and guidance for staff members in long term care facilities. Content is practical, understandable, clinically relevant, user friendly, and jargon free, with the goal to help staff understand and solve the wide range of psychiatric and behavioral problems which are encountered on a day-to-day basis. Numerous clinical case illustrations are presented along with practical management strategies. The material is invaluable for nurses, physicians, social workers, psychologists, and occupational therapists. Frontline health care aides, supervisors, and administrators will also find the information useful.   

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Product Code: PSY-STAFF
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Psychiatry in Long Term Care

Second edition 2009; William E. Reichman, Paul R. Katz (Editors).  Oxford University Press.  527 pages, hardcover

This edition of Psychiatry in Long Term Care is an important resource for care providers from all disciplines devoted to improving the well-being of people with mental health disorders living in long term care facilities.  Content presents a comprehensive review of the major psychiatric disorders affecting long term care residents and incorporates methods for physician identification and treatment of these disorders.  Clinical guidelines on specific disorders include reviews of contemporary strategies for successful psychopharmacological and psychotherapeutic interventions and are complemented by chapters on medicolegal considerations, ethics, and education of care staff.

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Product Code: PSY-LTC
Member Price: $60.00
Non - Member Price: $70.00
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