Triumphs and challenges of transforming a state psychiatric hospital in Georgia
| Autor: | Peter F. Buckley, P. Alex Mabe, Anthony O. Ahmed, Mirsad Serdarevic |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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Health Policy
media_common.quotation_subject Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Psychological intervention Context (language use) Mental health humanities Psychiatry and Mental health Nursing State (polity) Multidisciplinary approach General partnership Institution Psychiatric hospital Psychology health care economics and organizations media_common |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Mental Health Promotion. 15:68-75 |
| ISSN: | 2049-8543 1462-3730 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/14623730.2013.820575 |
| Popis: | The recovery model of mental health has gained momentum in the last three decades as a guiding philosophy for the transformation of traditional mental health institutions into programmes that are more responsive to consumer needs and choices. Recovery has served as a framework for our ongoing efforts to transform a psychiatric institution into a model programme for similar organizations in the state of Georgia. We have taken several significant steps that include ongoing consultation with a state-appointed consultant, a partnership with an academic psychiatry department that espoused the recovery philosophy, transformation of medication-focused treatment teams into multidisciplinary recovery teams and proliferation of evidence-based rehabilitative interventions as a platform for medication management. The Medical College of Georgia Department of Psychiatry and Health Behavior had created the Georgia Recovery-based Educational Approach to Treatment (Project). In the context of its partnership with state ps... |
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