Triage, education, and group meetings: efficient use of the interdisciplinary team with chronic psychiatric outpatients.
The caseload of chronic patients of a large mental health outpatient clinic was triaged into medication groups with educational and socialization emphasis. Organization, division of staff responsibilities, and longitudinal clinic responses are described, and advantages and pitfalls of the group format are presented.
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006127:Group Structure; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D010347:Patient Care Planning; D010348:Patient Care Team; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D011615:Psychotherapy, Group