The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 24, 2025

The episode highlights the importance of policy advocacy, culturally responsive therapy, and practicing cultural humility in mental health care. She served on the National Institute of Mental Health Advisory Council and the APA’s Council for Research. Dr. Kevin M.

Mental Health 52

Mental Health Community Hospital Appointment 52

GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

Eric: Social worker, mental health, I think we can actually learn from our team because we’re starting to embed with ILD clinics from this intervention, too, and from these algorithms, and from kind of what you’re doing. So, the docs actually wrote orders for tests, medications, consults. Lyndsay: Yeah.

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Patient-Centered IT Illness Patients 122

GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

And so the attitude isn’t like, you know, oh, like they missed an appointment, like, okay, like this is so annoying. There must be a good reason why, you know, they miss this appointment because they value this, but they have a lot of other things on their plate. It might have to do with a sensitivity around mental health.

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Healthcare IT Community Illness 100

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

When we take a mental health history, for example, I think we ask people, we do the PHQ, or whatever it is that we’re doing, asking people that mood. Even if the cancer gets cured, they’re not going to become their buprenorphine prescriber, the palliative care consultant. I think- Eric: I was going to say that.

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Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 136

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Alex 10:53 Yeah, or like palliative care if they get a consult for whatever reason, but not trn consult, like standardized, you know, randomized to palliative care versus whatever they’re doing before. If they get palliative care consult, they get one. If they don’t, they don’t. It’s not case finding.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119

GeriPal

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Another thing you could do is let’s really encourage discussion ahead of time between the appointed surrogate and the patient while the patient’s competent about patients preferences about their values. We do consults all the time on these where different people will say, no, it makes sense to try. The chances are too low.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Healthcare 108