Episode Description:

Dr. Matt Goldman and Dr. Rob Gadomski discuss key takeaways from the Crisis and Emergency Services chapter of the Textbook of Community Psychiatry including the role of crisis services, different roles that community psychiatrists can have in crisis services, and more!

Timestamps:

00:10 Introductions

01:26 Definition of Crisis and Role of Crisis Services

08:10 Different Roles that Community Psychiatrists can have in Crisis Services

12:40 Variability of Crisis Services in Community Psychiatry

28:07 Final Thoughts

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Guest:

Matthew L. Goldman, MD, MS, FAPA, is the Medical Director for the King County Crisis Care Centers Levy Implementation Plan, a voter-approved initiative to create five crisis centers, new residential treatment facilities, and workforce development programs across Seattle/King County. Prior to joining King County, he was the Medical Director for Comprehensive Crisis Services in the San Francisco Department of Public Health where he had direct clinical and administrative oversight of a crisis call center and adult and child mobile crisis teams, led planning for 988 implementation, and advised on the development of a new crisis stabilization unit. Dr. Goldman is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the University of Washington Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, he serves as a board member of the American Association of Community Psychiatry, and he serves on the National Council for Mental Wellbeing’s Medical Director Institute where he co-chairs a committee on crisis services. He is also a physician scientist, with over 40 academic publications, 3 book chapters, and multiple presentations at national meetings. He is currently studying mental health and substance use crisis services and suicide prevention in California, Arizona, Georgia, and Ohio, with grant funding from the National Institute of Mental Health (PI: R03) and others. From 2018-2019 he was a Policy Fellow in the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration through the Health and Aging Policy Fellowship. He graduated from Pomona College and the UC Berkeley - UCSF Joint Medical Program, and he completed his residency and chief residency in psychiatry at Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric Institute as well as the Public Psychiatry Fellowship at UCSF.

Host:

Rob Gadomski, DO is the Deputy Medical Director of Psychiatric Services at Project Renewal, Inc and a graduate of the Columbia Public Psychiatry Fellowship in June 2022. He works primarily with homeless and marginalized individuals in the New York City area. He went to the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine for medical school and completed his psychiatry residency training at Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia before moving to NYC, where he gathered an interest in working with homeless populations and individuals interacting with the criminal legal system.

Editors:

Daniel E. Carvallo-Ruiz, MD and Aldwin Soumare, DO

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