Level I Fieldwork

1 . Describe your Fieldwork 1 setting

The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health at St . Luke 's and Roosevelt

Hospital offers a variety of care by giving an extensive series of behavioral health needs . They offer their services to all ages : children and adolescents , adult and seniors . They also cater to population with specialized needs like women and children . Their services includes treatment of the full range of diagnoses , including , but not limited to psychosis , character diss , substance abuse , mood and anxiety and childhood and adolescent diss . The Department offer services

in different ways consisting of inpatient , outpatient , intensive day treatment and emergency services . Individuals can avail their services at any period of their recuperation

All patients seeking psychiatric care are first evaluated at the Access Center before receiving treatment . The patients undergo a comprehensive psychiatric evaluation that includes a general clinical interview and a regular self-report outcome measure , Basis 24 . Only then can a patient be recommended for treatment if the various divisions of the Department of Psychiatry can offer appropriate treatment . Suggestions are then made for care at other facilities if the programs of the Department of Psychiatry cannot accommodate the patient 's need for care

So many clients had different mental illness and majority of them are diagnose with schizophrenia . Men and women were not together in the same group . The Department had groups for women and groups for men . They had morning groups that meet for 1 .5 hours three times a week . That group was...