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In
Managing Uncertainty in Mental Health Care, Drs. Patricia Rockman and José Silveira advocate for refocusing mental health care priorities to mitigating harm using a novel transdiagnostic approach that accounts for inevitable assessment errors.
List of contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1.Uncertainty and the Incompatible Certainty Bias
- 2.The Brain as a Complex Adaptive System
- 3.Complexity in Clinical Practice
- 4.Limitations of Prioritizing Diagnosis
- 5.Diagnostic Errors in Practice
- 6.Confidence Versus Error
- 7.Mitigating Diagnostic Error Through Transdiagnostic Approaches
- 8.Priorities in Risk Assessment
- 9. Broadening Our View of Risk
- 10.A Novel Approach to Risk Identification
- 11. Uncertainty as Teacher: Education, Training, and Practice
- Appendices
- Appendix 1. The Risk, Function, and Symptom Matrices
- Appendix 2. Risk at a Glance
- Appendix 3. Centre for Effective Practice-Keeping Your Patients Safe: A Guide to Primary Care Management of Mental Health and Addictions-Related Risks and Functional Impairments
- Index
About the author
JOSÉ SILVEIRA B.Sc., M.D., FRCPC, Dip ABAMis a psychiatrist with a foot in each of Academe and Clinical practice. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto in Canada. His academic promotion was based on his Creative Professional Activityand its positive impact on aiding clinicians across multiple disciplines in managing complexity and uncertainty in mental health and addictions. José is certified by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in Psychiatry and is a Diplomate of the American Board of Addiction Medicine. Since 1998 he has worked in Academic Health Science Centers, a community teaching hospital and worked extensively with community-based clinicians across multiple disciplines. Since 2012 he has been an addiction Psychiatrist with the National Basketball Association (NBA) / National Basketball Players Association (NBPA) Player Assistance/Anti-Drug Program Clinicians Network.
Patricia Rockman MD, CCFP, FCFP is a family physician with a focused practice in mental health. She is the co-founder and Senior Director of Education and Clinical Services for the Centre for Mindfulness Studies. She is also an Associate Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine, cross-appointed to Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. She is a writer, program developer, and educator in mental health and addictions.
Summary
In Managing Uncertainty in Mental Health Care, Drs. Patricia Rockman and José Silveira advocate for refocusing mental health care priorities to mitigating harm using a novel transdiagnostic approach that accounts for inevitable assessment errors.
