Psychiatric Care and Prescribing in Field-Based Practice
Overview
This resource collection is designed for MDs, NPs, DOs, PAs, and other medical personnel working on field-based teams with individuals who experience severe mental illness. These resources address best prescribing practices, physical health co-morbidities, pharmacology for substance use, and other issues that medical personnel may address among individuals experiencing homelessness or with mental health-related disabilities.
It includes trainings that are available anytime as recordings, live trainings, other materials, and PMHP's Psych/NP Learning Community: https://learn.wellbeing4la.org/community?id=936.
Trainings
A Refresher on Outpatient Use of Clozapine
Dr. Yang is the director of the psychosis clinic at the West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center and an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at UCLA. In this refresher session, she reviews key strategies for the initiation and maintenance of prescription clozapine, the most effective antipsychotic medication, including safety and monitoring laboratory tests, dosing, side effect management, and treatment duration.
Care Coordination With Primary and Specialty Care for Field-Based Mental Health and Outreach Service Providers
This training will focus on models of integrated care, including integrated, coordinated, and co-located care models, and related skills for practicing care coordination across systems. The importance of coordinated care will be explained through the social determinants of health (SDOH) framework, highlighting integrated care/care coordination as an intervention that mitigates the impacts of SDOH. This training will teach providers how to identify key care partners within systems, as well as advocacy and collaboration best practices. Attendees will be given an overview of chronic health conditions ...
Essentials of Field-Based Psychiatric Services
This presentation will outline key principles in field-based psychiatric services through a model developed by the HOME Team. Psychiatrists will learn how to adapt traditional psychiatric services for service delivery in the field and gain a better understanding of the innovations Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health (LACDMH) has made available to support field-based psychiatry. The presentation will outline how to utilize a team-based approach in supporting community reintegration and the role of a psychiatrist in critical psychosocial interventions, including housing support. Internal and ...
Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) in 2023: The Evolving Landscape of Medications for Substance Use Disorders
Dr. Martinez provides state-of-the-art insights about pharmacotherapy for substance use. Along with detailing current evidence on psychotropic medications indicated for alcohol, methamphetamine, and opioid use, Dr. Martinez describes clinical strategies to support safe, person-centered prescribing. Anytime session recorded on July 11, 2023.
Training Series
Grave Disability
The Grave Disability Series was delivered in partnership with the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health with key collaborators from multiple systems of care. This course is intended for any outreach worker working with individuals who are homeless (i.e., clinicians and non-clinicians) and intends to provide all outreach team members with the foundational concepts necessary to participate in team deliberation and more successfully interact with the systems of care that are involved with grave disability. These videos begin by detailing the history of grave disability, ...
Learning Communities
FSP Psychiatrist/Nurse Practitioner Learning Community
A Learning Community for psychiatrists and nurse practitioners working on multidisciplinary teams to serve individuals with severe mental illness in Los Angeles County.
