Symposium

Behavioral Health Services

Brain Injury

Clinical Practice (assessment, diagnosis, treatment, knowledge translation/EBP, implementation science, program development)

An Interdisciplinary Programmatic Model of Care for Behavioral Management in an Inpatient Rehabilitation Setting

Wednesday, November 9, 2022

4:45 PM – 6:00 PM

Presenter(s)

Jeffrey Wertheimer, PhD, ABPP-CN

Associate Director of Physical Medicine/Chief of Psychology and Neuropsychology Services
Cedars Sinai Medical Center
Los Angeles, California, United States

Slides
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Bryce A. Erich, PsyD, CBIS

Clinical Neuropsychologist/Clinical Lead
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center/The California Rehabilitation Institute
Playa Vista, California, United States
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Kaitlin Lillywhite, OTR/L, CSRS

Occupational Therapist
California Rehabilitation Institute
Inglewood, California, United States
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Aimee J. Davis, MS, OTR/L, BCPR

Therapy Manager
California Rehabilitation Institute
Santa Monica, California, United States
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Seth Herman, MD

Director, Traumatic Brain Injury
California Rehabilitation Institute
Los Angeles, California, United States

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Description: Despite the well-known challenges for patients, care partners, and staff when behavioral disturbance occurs and some attempts at introducing integrated interdisciplinary treatment efforts, there remains a void in systematic interdisciplinary approaches to behavioral management in inpatient rehabilitation settings. This symposium introduces the establishment and validation of a systematic interdisciplinary programmatic model of care for behavioral management in an inpatient rehabilitation setting. There will be an overview of the operational program development, challenges, and workflow along with clinical characteristics of the patients for whom services were rendered. Predisposing factors for agitation, precipitating factors that trigger agitation, consequences of agitation for rehabilitation populations, for their caretakers, and the treatment team, the efficacy of alternative interventions, and the importance of an integrated interdisciplinary approach to behavioral management will also be reviewed.

Learning Objectives:

Provide an understanding about the operational development, challenges, and workflow of an interdisciplinary programmatic model of care for behavioral management in an inpatient rehabilitation setting.
Examine behavioral risk factors, behavioral health profiles, and patient outcomes for patients who presented with behavioral disturbance.
Describe interdisciplinary assessment and transdisciplinary treatment approaches to enhance behavioral management effectiveness.
Provide examples of tailored treatment approaches for patients within the interdisciplinary behavioral management program.
Upon completion will understand pharmacological approach to behavioral management.