Centering the Family: What It Means to Implement Family-Focused Practice (FFP) in Adult Mental Health Care

• By: Matt Kudish National Alliance on Mental Illness of New York City (NAMI-NYC)
• January 17th, 2023
• admissions, after-care, engagement, family, family-focused practice, hospitalization, providers, serious mental illness, Winter 2023 Issue
• 1280    0

Providers have an important role and responsibility to engage families when patients have a psychiatric hospitalization. HIPAA is often used to deny patients' families access to critical information. By educating and engaging families along the way, we can significantly reduce patient readmission...