Handbook on Optimizing Patient Care in Psychiatry

This handbook examines current mental health research, challenges in patient care, and advances in clinical psychiatry with the aim of improving approaches toward the screening of at-risk individuals, facilitating access to care, and supervising rehabilitation.

Combining evidence-based research with clinical case studies, international experts provide detailed, holistic insights into our understanding of mental disorders through biological, social, interpersonal, and economical lenses. Models of intervention, prevention, and treatment are provided, along with methods for continued care and patient advocacy. Finally, experts analyze the future of psychiatric research and mental health care. Readers will gain greater understanding of the finer nuances of handling psychiatric cases and a holistic perspective of optimizing patient care within this field.

This innovative book contributes to the development of community management of various psychiatric disorders and will be of interest to case managers, mental health workers, doctors, nurses, and many more.

Dr. Amresh Shrivastava is a professor emeritus of psychiatry at Western University and a scientist of mental health at Lawson Health Research Institute, located in London, Ontario, Canada. His areas of focus include suicide prevention, early intervention and complex mental disorders. He has served as an editor, reviewer and member of the editorial board of psychiatric journals and published original research reviews, book chapters, academic and non-fiction academic books.

Dr Avinash De Sousa is a consultant psychiatrist who is an avid writer and researcher with over 800 papers in national and international journals. He juggles his time between his teaching assignments and private practice and also enjoys being part of new research projects that investigates novel area in psychiatry and psychology.

Dr. Nilesh Shah is the professor and head at the Department of Psychiatry, Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College, Mumbai and is an ardent teacher and researcher and an often-invited speaker and lecturer at various national and international conferences.