Nicole Walters-De-institutionalization: Changing perceptions of mental disorders

Hello everyone! Welcome to my page, after reading this document hopefully you will be able to get a sense of who I am, my choice of Magellan and what makes it such an interesting project for me. To begin, my name is Nicole Walters and I attend Washington & Jefferson College, class of 2019. My major is psychology with a minor in Gender and Women studies, my interests follow along the route of counseling and therapy, working directly with patients from the community. I love helping people in any way that I can, so volunteer work has always been a large part of my life. I have done extensive volunteer work at a retirement home in Zelienople Pennsylvania and have learned the value of patience and a constant positive attitude. You quickly learned there were residents you could always count on to have a smile on their face and positive outlook on their life. While other residents, who were more of the grumpy and sullen types...

     Hello everyone, and welcome to my Magellan project. On this page, I will focus on what exactly my Magellan project is all about the people I will be working with and the goals I hope to accomplish. My Magellan is focused on the act of deinstitutionalizing treatment of mental disorders, this means changing the way doctors and therapist treat and diagnose patients with behavioral health issues. The program that I will be explicitly following for the month of June is the TiPs program and one of its important members. TiPs stands for Telephonic Psychiatrics System, the program is a massive consultation system founded by the state to help pediatric services get in contact with behavioral health professionals within thirty minutes to discus a patients case or to set up an appointment at the Children's Hospital behavioral health offices in Wexford Pennsylvania with in two weeks of the phone call. The program works on a well known system called curbside consult...