Word: kadison
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
When students initially call UHS for an appointment, they are given a triage interview by phone, in which clinicians determine who the student should first see—a prescribing clinician or one focused on therapy, Kadison says...
...Kadison says UHS began this system one and half years ago in order to get students on a fast track to care as soon as they express interest in getting help. While previously a student would have to wait for an hour-long appointment slot before their first contact with a UHS clinician, now a student receives this 20-minute triage appointment usually within a day of making their original call...
...Kadison says that the “most experienced clinicians” do triage. But it is luck of the draw whether a student has that first triage appointment with a psychologist, psychiatrist or nurse practitioner...
...Kadison says the “episode” is more a guideline than a limit, but that seeing a student weekly for up to four months is roughly what UHS can offer within its budget...
...realize that we cannot offer open-ended weekly therapy to the whole community because we wouldn’t have the resources,” Kadison wrote in an e-mail...