Many of us in inpatient psychiatry often feel helpless when we work with patients who cycle in and out of involuntary hospitalization, often without real progress. Dr. Zhong and Dr. Wasser share their expertise on this issue.
Palliative psychiatry is an emerging and thought-provoking approach that challenges us to rethink how we care for individuals with severe and persistent mental illness.
These laws have been around for decades, and they usually come from a place of deep frustration. Family members, law enforcement, and others in the community encounter people with serious SUDs—people who are spiraling, refusing help, and putting themselves or others at risk.
Many patients with schizophrenia or recurrent psychotic disorders want to reduce or stop their antipsychotic drugs to minimize adverse effects like sedation, weight gain, and emotional blunting, all of which can impair social functioning.
Dr. Hendrick is a clinical professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and is the director of inpatient psychiatry at Olive View—UCLA Medical Center, where she carries a caseload of patients and provides teaching and supervision for medical students and psychiatry residents. After completing medical school and psychiatric residency at UCLA, she spent several years working as a principal investigator and co-investigator on N.I.M.H. funded research studies. She has authored or co-authored over 75 research papers, editorials, books and other publications. She has a long-standing interest in the needs of severely mentally ill patients from underserved populations and has worked in community mental health settings her entire career.
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