001632 Jan 2006 Psychiatry News
WINTER 2006 PPenn sychiatry P erspective PENN Behavioral Health - Inside This Issue: An Innovative Approach to Providing Regular Features ....... Page Mental Health Care Chairman’s Report ...........................2 Steadily, the Department of Psychiatry has been building an innovative and entrepreneurial News and Goings-On model for delivering mental health services. PENN Behavioral Health: Called PENN Behavioral Health (PBH), this new paradigm includes all of the Department's An Innovative Approach nationally acclaimed patient care programs, as well as a new class of services designed to Providing Mental specifically for businesses and non-profit organizations, and for their employees and family Health Care ...........................Cover members. The Department chose the name PENN Behavioral Health to describe these programs and Research Development News .........5 services. Why isn't psychiatry in the title? Department faculty offer therapies and other More News .....................................5 modalities that defy easy classification by discipline, often moving beyond what is customarily known as psychiatry, and they treat a wide spectrum of clinical problems, including those that Responding to The World’s Crises..6 are classified as psychiatric, psychological, mental, or behavioral. PENN Behavioral Health conveys the breadth of the Department's varied health care services and also "brands" its Reception - programs in the marketplace, differentiating PBH's programs from others. And, of course, the James L. Stinnett, MD.....................22 name PBH emphasizes its home at Penn, one of the world's best universities. Awards & Honors ..............................8 PBH is divided into two components - PBH Patient Care Programs and PBH Corporate Services. Department Chair Dwight L. Evans, MD provides the leadership for PBH and Research Highlights Rosellen Taraborrelli is its Executive Director.
[Show full text]