Transitions: Handbook of Managed Care for Inpatient to Outpatient Treatment
By (Author) Douglas H. Ruben
Edited by Chris E. Stout Ph.D.
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Praeger Publishers Inc
30th July 1993
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Health systems and services
362.11
184
Width 156mm, Height 235mm
454g
This is the first book devoted to the steps from hospital discharge to outpatient therapy. Structured interventions are provided along with the pitfalls and roadblocks that threaten smooth transitions. The focus on the continuity of care goes beyond traditional aftercare planning and use of referral networks. The authors critically examine problems arising from schedule delays, selection of inappropriate therapies, relapse and rehospitalization, unauthorized disclosure of the case file, agency bureaucracy, and damaged therapist-client relationships. Case examples further illuminate failures of improper case management in contrast to step-by-step positive alternatives. The solutions offered are related to clients with specific hospitalized disorders (anxiety, anorexia, substance abuse) and special populations (children, adolescents, adults, and the elderly). Never before has a single work exposed the precarious transitions between programs and informed both clients and providers of ways to overcome mistakes by following simple guidelines.
DOUGLAS H. RUBEN is a clinical psychologist and president of Best Impressions International, Inc., in Michigan. He is the author of Drug Abuse and the Elderly (1984), Readings in Anorexia Nervosa and Eating Disorders (1984), Philosophy Journals and Serials (Greenwood Press, 1985), Progress in Assertiveness, 1973-1983 (1985), Family Addiction (1992), and co-editor of New Ideas in Therapy (Greenwood Press, 1987) and Handbook for Assessing and Treating Addictive Disorders (Greenwood Press, 1992). CHRIS E. STOUT is director of the Psychodiagnostics Division and Director of the Department of Clinical Research and Evaluation at Forest Hospital in Illinois. He is a co-editor of Handbook for Assessing and Treating Addictive Disorders (Greenwood Press, 1992), and the author of many journal articles.