
73: Understanding Involuntary Hospitalization Applications Submitted to an Urban Police Department
03/10/25 • 33 min
Dr. Kevin Simon (Harvard Medical School and Boston Public Health Commission) joins Dr. Dixon and Dr. Berezin to discuss the processes behind and concerns surrounding involuntary psychiatric hospitalization.
- 01:03 Career path
- 03:42 Boston Public Health Commission
- 09:28 Collaborators
- 13:09 Section 12
- 16:14 Transportation
- 17:17 Rates of involuntary transport
- 22:29 Requests that don’t end in transport
- 23:42 Police involvement
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Dr. Kevin Simon (Harvard Medical School and Boston Public Health Commission) joins Dr. Dixon and Dr. Berezin to discuss the processes behind and concerns surrounding involuntary psychiatric hospitalization.
- 01:03 Career path
- 03:42 Boston Public Health Commission
- 09:28 Collaborators
- 13:09 Section 12
- 16:14 Transportation
- 17:17 Rates of involuntary transport
- 22:29 Requests that don’t end in transport
- 23:42 Police involvement
Subscribe to the podcast here.
Check out Editor's Choice, a set of curated collections from the rich resource of articles published in the journal. Sign up to receive notification of new Editor's Choice collections.
Browse other articles on our website.
Be sure to let your colleagues know about the podcast, and please rate and review it wherever you listen to it.
Listen to other podcasts produced by the American Psychiatric Association.
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72: Partnerships Between Faith Communities and the Mental Health Sector: A Scoping Review
Eunice Wong, Ph.D., (RAND, Santa Monica, Calif.) joins Dr. Dixon and Dr. Berezin to discuss a review taking a look at the interactions of faith communities and the mental health sector in the provision of mental health care.
- 00:56 How did you arrive at this field of study?
- 02:58 What is RAND and what do they do?
- 04:11 How are works for a think tank evaluated?
- 05:21 The interaction of faith communities and mental health service provision
- 07:38 Types of collaboration – PSFPTP Hankerson episode
- 09:57 Why look at the literature now?
- 11:12 What kinds of questions are you asking?
- 12:57 The complexity of different faiths, and different organizations
- 15:56 Topline findings
- 18:12 Does the research paradigm work in situations like this?
- 22:03 Discussing a patient and provider’s religiosity
- 23:20 Assumptions and characterizations of faith-based organizations
- 24:55 Destigmatizing conversations about mental health and behavioral health in faith-based communities
- 27:39 The multilayered nature of faith-based community participation
- 28:53 Future research
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74: Building Financial Wellness: Randomized Control Trial of a Financial Education and Support Intervention
Dr. Judith Cook (University of Illinois Chicago) joins Dr. Dixon and Dr. Berezin to discuss an intervention designed to help improve financial literacy and competency and reduce economic strain for people receiving services for psychiatric disorders.
- 00:57 Psychiatric services research
- 02:05 Clinical work and Thresholds
- 03:46 Current role
- 04:23 Why does financial wellness matter for this population?
- 06:43 Psych rehab
- 08:05 Spending triggers
- 10:59 A psych rehab framework
- 12:53 Financial wellness
- 14:10 Beyond trans-diagnostic
- 16:24 The curriculum
- 20:10 Receiving a good financial education
- 21:32 Top line findings of the trial
- 25:07 The emotional context of financial wellness
- 25:55 Trained peer instructors
- 27:34 Policymaker takeaways
- 30:30 Financial literacy does not imply financial wellness
- 32:07 Small goals towards financial wellness
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