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Psychiatry • Forensic Psychiatry • Public & Community Psychiatry • General Outpatient Psychiatry
How do you handle requests for disability or accommodations in clinical settings with limited administrative support or documentation time?
How do you decide which requests you can reasonably complete? How do you triage and set boundaries around requests for paperwork?
Do you typically require that paperwork be completed during appointments? Are there ever situations when you would consider completing paperwork between appointments?
Answer from: at Community Practice
If you are working in private practice without ancillary support like case managers, I highly recommend having patients make appointments while you complete the forms for them. Clinically, if paperwork is being sprung on you out of nowhere, an evaluation is necessary anyways to determine if it's app...
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Answer from: at Academic Institution
This really depends on the context. It is really best to be working with a team when working with clients who have public insurance and applying for public support. Case managers are often able to coordinate these requests. It is often helpful to fill out the paperwork with the applicants present. I...