Preventive Medical Care in Psychiatry: A Practical Guide for Clinicians - Softcover

Robert M. McCarron

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1585624799 ISBN 13: 9781585624799

Publisher: Amer Psychiatric Pub, 2014

Synopsis

Preventive Medical Care in Psychiatry: A Practical Guide for Clinicians is designed to assist psychiatrists and other mental health providers in making the shift from treating mental disorders to treating the holistic needs of people with mental disorders. Individuals with chronic mental illness typically have higher rates of adverse health risk behaviors, such as smoking, poor diet, and lack of physical activity, which puts them at high risk for the development of obesity, type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. Additionally, these individuals frequently lack a primary care physician. By focusing on the knowledge and skills mental health providers need to prevent and detect common medical conditions in their patients, the book enables them to develop models of care that are integrated within individuals and across populations. Written by experts in the field-many with dual training in psychiatry and medicine - the book focuses on clinical care that is within the scope of psychiatrists and other mental health care providers who work in outpatient mental health and integrated clinics. These clinicians will find Preventive Medical Care in Psychiatry: A Practical Guide for Clinicians to be an eminently useful, evidence-based guide to offering holistic care and improving their patients' health.

About this title

About the Author:

Robert M. McCarron, D.O., is Associate Professor, Director of Integrated Internal Medicine Training, and Director of Pain Psychiatry in the Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Anesthesiology, and Internal Medicine at the University of California, Davis School of Medicine in Sacramento, California. Glen L. Xiong, M.D., is Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, Davis School of Medicine in Sacramento, California. Craig R. Keenan, M.D., is Professor of Medicine and Residency Program Director in the Department of Medicine at the University of California, Davis School of Medicine in Sacramento, California. Henry A. Nasrallah, M.D., is The Sydney W. Souers Professor and Chairman in the Department of Neurology and Psychiatry at Saint Louis University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri. He is also Editor-In Chief of Schizophrenia Research and Current Psychiatry.

Review:

In recent years, researchers have documented that patients with severe mental illness are dying one to two decades earlier than the rest of the US population. This premature mortality is predominantly from chronic medical illnesses, emphasizing the importance for psychiatrists and other mental health professionals to focus on preventive medicine techniques. This timely book provides mental health professionals with state-of-the-art information and recommendations about preventive medicine screening and interventions necessary to improve health outcomes of patients with mental illness. --Wayne Katon M.D., Professor, Vice-Chair, Director of Division of Health Services and Psychiatric Epidemiology

In this age of health reform, psychiatrists will be taking on a new and important role as they address the total health picture of their primary psychiatric patients as well as those they see in their new position as consultants to patients in the medical setting. This book provides them with a timely reminder and update about including preventive measures as a standard part of their contribution to care. The book is comprehensive, written primarily by authors with combined training in psychiatry as well as primary and/or specialty care, and practical. It is a wonderful addition to the integrated care literature. --Roger Kathol, M.D., Adjunct Professor, Internal Medicine and Psychiatry, University of Minnesota, President, Cartesian Solutions, Inc.

As we anticipate expanded integration of mental health and primary care in the near future, psychiatrists will be increasingly responsible for helping to keep their patients healthy, for detecting early signs of common medical illnesses in them, and for preventing further disability and decline once their patients have known medical illnesses. This welcome and practical book by outstanding physicians bridging psychiatry and primary care clearly delivers what psychiatrists will need to know regarding primary, secondary and tertiary prevention to help their patients over the coming years. --Joel Yager, M.D., Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Chair, American Psychiatric Association Council on Quality Care

About this edition

• Publisher: Amer Psychiatric Pub
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1585624799
• ISBN 13: 9781585624799
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 482
• Editor: Robert M. McCarron, Glen Xiong, Craig R Keenan, Henry A. Nasrallah