Psychiatric Services From Pages to Practice

75: Bridging the Gap Between Joint Commission Accreditation and High-Quality Behavioral Health Care: Reflections on a Survey

Dr. Benjamin Brody (Weill Cornell Medicine, New York) joins Dr. Dixon and Dr. Berezin to discuss how Joint Commission accreditation can be evolved to ensure that it is aligned with best incentives to for high-quality behavioral health care. Transcript 00:52     Brody background 02:51     Inpatient work 03:42     The tension of inpatient psychiatric care 05:28     The Joint Commission 07:39     What the Joint Commission is doing well 09:04     Best practices 11:02     Who ordered what, when, and where 13:33     Including the patient as a stakeholder 20:23     Comprehensive treatment plans 22:25     What would you do if you were CEO? 24:34     Ensuring that the things the Joint Commission focuses on are the things that improve patients’ lives. 25:14     A vision for quality improvement that engages stakeholders 30:12     Shared decision making Subscribe to the podcast here. Check out Editor's Choice, a set of curated collections from the rich resource of articles published in the journal. Sign up to receive notification of new Editor's Choice collections. Browse other articles on our website. Be sure to let your colleagues know about the podcast, and please rate and review it wherever you listen to it. Listen to other podcasts produced by the American Psychiatric Association. Follow the journal on Twitter. E-mail us at psjournal@psych.org

74: Building Financial Wellness: Randomized Control Trial of a Financial Education and Support Intervention

Dr. Judith Cook (University of Illinois Chicago) joins Dr. Dixon and Dr. Berezin to discuss an intervention designed to help improve financial literacy and competency and reduce economic strain for people receiving services for psychiatric disorders. Transcript 00:57     Psychiatric services research 02:05     Clinical work and Thresholds 03:46     Current role 04:23     Why does financial wellness matter for this population? 06:43     Psych rehab 08:05     Spending triggers 10:59     A psych rehab framework 12:53     Financial wellness 14:10     Beyond trans-diagnostic 16:24     The curriculum 20:10     Receiving a good financial education 21:32     Top line findings of the trial 25:07     The emotional context of financial wellness 25:55     Trained peer instructors 27:34     Policymaker takeaways 30:30     Financial literacy does not imply financial wellness 32:07     Small goals towards financial wellness  Subscribe to the podcast here. Check out Editor's Choice, a set of curated collections from the rich resource of articles published in the journal. Sign up to receive notification of new Editor's Choice collections. Browse other articles on our website. Be sure to let your colleagues know about the podcast, and please rate and review it wherever you listen to it. Listen to other podcasts produced by the American Psychiatric Association. Follow the journal on Twitter. E-mail us at psjournal@psych.org

73: Understanding Involuntary Hospitalization Applications Submitted to an Urban Police Department

Dr. Kevin Simon (Harvard Medical School and Boston Public Health Commission) joins Dr. Dixon and Dr. Berezin to discuss the processes behind and concerns surrounding involuntary psychiatric hospitalization. Transcript 01:03     Career path 03:42     Boston Public Health Commission 09:28     Collaborators 13:09     Section 12 16:14     Transportation 17:17     Rates of involuntary transport 22:29     Requests that don’t end in transport 23:42     Police involvement Subscribe to the podcast here. Check out Editor's Choice, a set of curated collections from the rich resource of articles published in the journal. Sign up to receive notification of new Editor's Choice collections. Browse other articles on our website. Be sure to let your colleagues know about the podcast, and please rate and review it wherever you listen to it. Listen to other podcasts produced by the American Psychiatric Association. Follow the journal on Twitter. E-mail us at psjournal@psych.org

72: Partnerships Between Faith Communities and the Mental Health Sector: A Scoping Review

Eunice Wong, Ph.D., (RAND, Santa Monica, Calif.) joins Dr. Dixon and Dr. Berezin to discuss a review taking a look at the interactions of faith communities and the mental health sector in the provision of mental health care. Transcript 00:56     How did you arrive at this field of study? 02:58     What is RAND and what do they do? 04:11     How are works for a think tank evaluated? 05:21     The interaction of faith communities and mental health service provision 07:38     Types of collaboration – PSFPTP Hankerson episode 09:57     Why look at the literature now? 11:12     What kinds of questions are you asking? 12:57     The complexity of different faiths, and different organizations 15:56     Topline findings 18:12     Does the research paradigm work in situations like this? 22:03     Discussing a patient and provider’s religiosity 23:20     Assumptions and characterizations of faith-based organizations 24:55     Destigmatizing conversations about mental health and behavioral health in faith-based communities 27:39     The multilayered nature of faith-based community participation 28:53     Future research Subscribe to the podcast here. Check out Editor's Choice, a set of curated collections from the rich resource of articles published in the journal. Sign up to receive notification of new Editor's Choice collections. Browse other articles on our website. Be sure to let your colleagues know about the podcast, and please rate and review it wherever you listen to it. Listen to other podcasts produced by the American Psychiatric Association. Follow the journal on Twitter. E-mail us at psjournal@psych.org

71: Motivations for and Experiences With Antipsychotic Tapering Among Patients With Schizophrenia Seeking Guided Dose Reduction

Dr. Mette Ødegaard Nielsen (Unit for Complicated Schizophrenia, Glostrup, Denmark) joins Dr. Dixon and Dr. Berezin to discuss patient motivations and experiences of antipsychotic medication tapering at a clinic in Denmark. Transcript 01:02     Nielsen interview 02:22     Tapering medication 04:09     Controversies around tapering 07:07     Debilitating effects of side effects 09:09     The tension between medication and side effects for the clinician 12:47     Top line findings 15:28     Psychotic symptom relapse 17:38     Differences by medication 19:43     Expectations from patients 21:47     Shared decision making 24:44     Mixed expectations and reality 27:20     Relapse 29:50     Close contact between patients and clinic staff Subscribe to the podcast here. Check out Editor's Choice, a set of curated collections from the rich resource of articles published in the journal. Sign up to receive notification of new Editor's Choice collections. Browse other articles on our website. Be sure to let your colleagues know about the podcast, and please rate and review it wherever you listen to it. Listen to other podcasts produced by the American Psychiatric Association. Follow the journal on Twitter. E-mail us at psjournal@psych.org