Mental Health
Screening/Diagnosis
Screening/Diagnosis
This tool is frequently used in primary care to screen for depression
What is the PHQ?
These two SSRIs are first line treatments for depression.
What are escitalopram and sertraline?
The social worker for adolescents with depression or anxiety.
Who is Ashante White, LSW?
This is the best place to send a patient with active psychosis, suicidality, or homicidality.
What is the Emergency Department?
This psychiatrist is the expert in psychotic disorders at UChicago Medicine and consulting psychiatrist for the Adult Collaborative Care Program.
Who is Dr. Daniel Yohanna?
This score cut-off is commonly used in primary care to screen patients in for an anxiety disorder using the GAD-7
What is 10?
This is minimum amount of time you need to wait before increasing the dose of an antidepressant if people aren't improving.
What is 2 weeks?
(2-4 weeks is reasonable, 6 weeks is the max)
The social worker for adults with cognitive impairment and neuropsychiatry problems.
Who is Carly Lusk, LCSW?
The Consulting Psychiatrist is Dr. Erin Zahradnik.
This is where you refer patients for diagnostic evaluation, treatment planning, referral and pharmacologic therapy for adults with psychiatric difficulties and co-existing neurological conditions including movement disorders, neurodegenerative disorders, seizures, stroke, and traumatic brain injury
What is patients referred to neuropsychiatry?
Neuropsychology - for comprehensive diagnostic assessments
This Director of Psychology is your go-to person if a patient with UCHP insurance needs a long-term therapist.
Who is Dr. Shona Vas?
Without systematic screening, this percentage of patients with depression in primary care are diagnosed.
What is 40-50%?
This is the same percentage of patients diagnosed with depression who are treated, and the same percentage as those who are treated who receive adequate treatment.
Name two medicines that are reasonable adjunctive treatments for people with depression who need augmentation.
What are aripiprazole or buspirone?
(3rd option is lithium)
These 2 social workers provide Collaborative Care services for adults with depression and anxiety
Who are Samantha Allen, LCSW and Carly Lusk, LCSW?
(Samantha Allen - N-Z, Med/Peds)
(Carly Lusk - A-M and Cognitive Impairment Collaborative Care)
This is where you refer adults who want to improve their health behaviors, or adults who have mental health problems as a result of their health conditions.
What is BMed (Behavioral Medicine)?
Directed by Dr. Fabiana Araujo, PhD
This psychiatrist is the expert in PTSD and personality disorder at UChicago Medicine
Who is Dr. Royce Lee?
To have PTSD, you must have symptoms for this amount of time.
What is 1 month?
Symptoms: intrusive thoughts, avoidance, negative changes in thought and mood, and changes in arousal and reactivity
Because of differences in cytochrome p450, 10-15% of people in these two racial groups may respond to lower dosages of antidepressants.
Who are Blacks and Asians?
These are the first few words of the smartphrase you can use to find the consent needed when referring to Collaborative Care.
What is COLLABCARE?
Currently, .COLLABCAREPTCONSENT.
(It'll be changing to .COLLABCARECONSENT)
This is the best place to send a patient with moderate-severe depression or anxiety AND functional limitations without active suicidality.
What is an Intensive Outpatient Program?
This psychiatrist is the expert in OCD and addiction at UChicago Medicine
Who is Dr. Jon Grant?
Screening tools for common mental health conditions are available at this UChicago website
People with refractory depression or chronic active suicidality should be referred to this person in psychiatry.
Who is Dustin (Ash) Ehsan?
For ECT, esketamine, or other treatments
Refractory working definition: 3 drugs at max dosages in >=2 classes for >= 3 months
He is also an expert in LGBTQIA+ mental health and provides medication management and therapy.
People enrolled in Collaborative Care can receive these 4 services.
What are diagnostic assessment, care management, consultative psychiatry, and brief therapy?
This is a good place to refer older adults with diagnosed cognitive impairment and neuropsychiatric problems (depression, anxiety, agitation), who are interested in improving their mental health.
What is Cognitive Impairment Collaborative Care? (Carly Lusk, LCSW)
This psychologist is the expert in eating disorders and directs this program
Who is Dr. Jennifer Wildes, PhD?