Unlike the comprehensive tomes available on public sector psychiatry, this book offers the psychiatry trainee and early-career psychiatrist a concise guide to the many roles he or she might be asked to provide in a public-sector mental health setting. It offers residents and early-career psychiatrists real-world case studies, example vignettes, literature and art that engage them in, and put them at-ease about, service in public psychiatry.

• 1 - The Public Psychiatrist in History


• 2 - The Public Psychiatrist as Clinician


• 3 - The Public Psychiatrist as Clinical Team Member


• 4 - The Public Psychiatrist and the Patient with Intellectual or Developmental Disabilities


• 5 - The Public Psychiatrist and Integrated Health


• 6 - The Public Psychiatrist as Leader


• 7 - The Public Psychiatrist as Teacher


• 8 - The Public Psychiatrist as Researcher


• 9 - The Public Psychiatrist as Advocate


• 10 -The Public Psychiatrist in the Future

James G. Baker, MD serves as Associate Chair of Clinical Integration and Services in the Department of Psychiatry at Dell Medical School in Austin, Texas. Dr Baker also serves as Systems Chief Medical Officer for Integral Care, the community mental health center for Austin and Travis County. He is a child/adolescent psychiatrist with more than 25 years of medical administrative experience in public-sector mental health, including service as CEO of the community mental health center for Dallas County and as medical director for behavioral health with the Texas Department of State Health Services.Dr. Baker is a distinguished fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a recipient of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill Exemplary Psychiatrist Award, as well as the Mental Health America of Greater Dallas Pamela Blumenthal Memorial Award for long-term commitment to quality of care and delivery of services to people with mental illnesses.
Sarah E. Baker, MD, serves as Assistant
Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas. During her training in general psychiatry and forensic psychiatry, Dr. Baker was a Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry Fellow as well as a Rappeport Fellow with the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law. She has also been a recipient of the Resident Psychiatric Educator Award from the Association for Academic Psychiatry. Dr. Baker holds a master's degree in medical humanities, and she has frequently presented on the application of medical humanities to resident and medical student education.