A Psychiatrist's Guide to Advocacy.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (460 pages)
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Part I Understanding Advocacy -- 1 What Is Advocacy, and Why Is It Important? -- 2 Conceptualizing Advocacy -- 3 Where Do We Fit In? Advocating for Our Patients and Our Profession -- Advocacy Role Model Interview: Julie Chilton, M.D. Advocacy Through Self-Disclosure -- 4 How Do I Become an Advocate? -- Advocacy Role Model Interview: Jeffrey Akaka, M.D. Advocacy Through Organized Medicine -- Part II Practicing Advocacy -- 5 Patient-Level Advocacy -- 6 Organizational Advocacy -- Advocacy Role Model Interview: Ken Duckworth, M.D. Advocacy Through Organizational Leadership -- 7 Legislative Advocacy -- 8 Education as Advocacy -- 9 Research as Advocacy -- 10 Engaging the Popular Media -- Advocacy Role Model Interview: Jeremy Kidd, M.D., M.P.H. Advocacy Through Communication With the Public -- Part III Advocacy for Special Populations -- 11 Advocacy for Children and Families -- 12 Advocacy for Older Adults -- 13 Advocacy for LGBTQ Patients -- 14 Advocacy for Immigrants, Refugees, and Their Families -- 15 Advocacy for People With Substance Use Disorders -- 16 Advocacy for Military Service Members -- 17 Advocacy for Veterans and Their Families -- 18 Advocacy for Patients in Medical Settings -- 19 Community and Public Sector Advocacy -- 20 Advocacy for People With Mental Illness at Risk for Criminal Justice Involvement -- Index -- Back Cover.
The book explores the diverse definitions of advocacy and helps to identify methods and opportunities for advocacy by mental health practitioners. The editors argue for a greater culture of advocacy among psychiatrists in order to effect broad and lasting systemic and structural change. Legislative advocacy is just one of the many types explored in the book; advocacy takes many forms, including patient-level advocacy, organizational advocacy, education and research as advocacy, and media-targeted advocacy.