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Handbook of Child and Adolescent Outpatient, Day Treatment, and Community Psychiatry
edited by Harinder S. Ghuman and Richard M. Sarles, 393 pp, $69.95, ISBN 0-87630-874-4, Philadelphia, Pa, Brunner/Mazel Inc, 1998.
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 1999;153:1205.
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This is a multiauthored text by the editors of a previous book, The Handbook of Adolescent Inpatient Psychiatric Treatment. In an effort to keep up with the changes in the current economic health care environment, the authors now describe the shift in mental health services from inpatient to outpatient and day treatments available in the community. The book is divided into 6 sections: general administrative and staffing issues, assessment, specific common childhood psychiatric disorders, therapeutic interventions, services available between inpatient and outpatient, and community-based programs.
Practicing academic child psychiatrists will recognize the difficulties described in detail surrounding the transformation of a state government–funded mental health clinic to a privatized one in a managed care environment. They will also appreciate the careful descriptions of setting up a partial hospitalization program. Delineations of the role, for example, of the team leader or of the day hospital staffing, which need to be . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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