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Dr. Jhilam Biswas

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Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Jhilam Biswas Reveals Paths to Mental Health Reform From Forensic Hospitals to Freedom

The other thing we're doing, and Anne Cochran I know connected me to you for this, is what my hope is, is rather than having people get care in these locked settings, really bring that level of care to the community through assisted outpatient treatment and wraparound services.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Jhilam Biswas Reveals Paths to Mental Health Reform From Forensic Hospitals to Freedom

The other thing we're doing, and Anne Cochran I know connected me to you for this, is what my hope is, is rather than having people get care in these locked settings, really bring that level of care to the community through assisted outpatient treatment and wraparound services.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Jhilam Biswas Reveals Paths to Mental Health Reform From Forensic Hospitals to Freedom

Individuals with autism definitely have a higher comorbidity of serious mental illness, but also are in proximity to others with serious mental illness due to living in group homes or living in various institutions with people with serious mental illness. And getting timely treatment to these individuals rather than these delays to care.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Jhilam Biswas Reveals Paths to Mental Health Reform From Forensic Hospitals to Freedom

Individuals with autism definitely have a higher comorbidity of serious mental illness, but also are in proximity to others with serious mental illness due to living in group homes or living in various institutions with people with serious mental illness. And getting timely treatment to these individuals rather than these delays to care.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Jhilam Biswas Reveals Paths to Mental Health Reform From Forensic Hospitals to Freedom

Individuals with autism definitely have a higher comorbidity of serious mental illness, but also are in proximity to others with serious mental illness due to living in group homes or living in various institutions with people with serious mental illness. And getting timely treatment to these individuals rather than these delays to care.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Jhilam Biswas Reveals Paths to Mental Health Reform From Forensic Hospitals to Freedom

I think it's key to keeping individuals with serious mental illness in the community and with family members and reducing sort of the high burden that caregivers feel, I think, in providing care for their loved ones who have serious mental illness and comorbid autism.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Jhilam Biswas Reveals Paths to Mental Health Reform From Forensic Hospitals to Freedom

I think it's key to keeping individuals with serious mental illness in the community and with family members and reducing sort of the high burden that caregivers feel, I think, in providing care for their loved ones who have serious mental illness and comorbid autism.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Jhilam Biswas Reveals Paths to Mental Health Reform From Forensic Hospitals to Freedom

I think it's key to keeping individuals with serious mental illness in the community and with family members and reducing sort of the high burden that caregivers feel, I think, in providing care for their loved ones who have serious mental illness and comorbid autism.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Jhilam Biswas Reveals Paths to Mental Health Reform From Forensic Hospitals to Freedom

Yeah, so when working in a forensic hospital, they need charges. They need criminal charges actually to be in the forensic system. And then the court will have clinicians within the court determine, you know what, this person needs a higher level of care. And they'll get diverted into a forensic hospital. And that's where we see them as forensic psychiatrists providing care in that setting.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Jhilam Biswas Reveals Paths to Mental Health Reform From Forensic Hospitals to Freedom

Yeah, so when working in a forensic hospital, they need charges. They need criminal charges actually to be in the forensic system. And then the court will have clinicians within the court determine, you know what, this person needs a higher level of care. And they'll get diverted into a forensic hospital. And that's where we see them as forensic psychiatrists providing care in that setting.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Jhilam Biswas Reveals Paths to Mental Health Reform From Forensic Hospitals to Freedom

Yeah, so when working in a forensic hospital, they need charges. They need criminal charges actually to be in the forensic system. And then the court will have clinicians within the court determine, you know what, this person needs a higher level of care. And they'll get diverted into a forensic hospital. And that's where we see them as forensic psychiatrists providing care in that setting.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Jhilam Biswas Reveals Paths to Mental Health Reform From Forensic Hospitals to Freedom

However, now I don't work in a forensic hospital. I actually work in a regular academic hospital in Boston called Brigham and Women's Hospital. And I still see a lot of forensic issues that come up in the hospital setting. You know, people with criminal charges who are needing medical care, but then also have a psychiatric illness. We see it also in our inpatient psychiatric units.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Jhilam Biswas Reveals Paths to Mental Health Reform From Forensic Hospitals to Freedom

However, now I don't work in a forensic hospital. I actually work in a regular academic hospital in Boston called Brigham and Women's Hospital. And I still see a lot of forensic issues that come up in the hospital setting. You know, people with criminal charges who are needing medical care, but then also have a psychiatric illness. We see it also in our inpatient psychiatric units.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Jhilam Biswas Reveals Paths to Mental Health Reform From Forensic Hospitals to Freedom

However, now I don't work in a forensic hospital. I actually work in a regular academic hospital in Boston called Brigham and Women's Hospital. And I still see a lot of forensic issues that come up in the hospital setting. You know, people with criminal charges who are needing medical care, but then also have a psychiatric illness. We see it also in our inpatient psychiatric units.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Jhilam Biswas Reveals Paths to Mental Health Reform From Forensic Hospitals to Freedom

I also have a private practice called Psych Expertise where I do evaluations for the court, for attorneys, for organizations that may need a mental health evaluation for an employee or a school may need a mental health evaluation for somebody who might have been suspended due to some issue.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Jhilam Biswas Reveals Paths to Mental Health Reform From Forensic Hospitals to Freedom

I also have a private practice called Psych Expertise where I do evaluations for the court, for attorneys, for organizations that may need a mental health evaluation for an employee or a school may need a mental health evaluation for somebody who might have been suspended due to some issue.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Jhilam Biswas Reveals Paths to Mental Health Reform From Forensic Hospitals to Freedom

I also have a private practice called Psych Expertise where I do evaluations for the court, for attorneys, for organizations that may need a mental health evaluation for an employee or a school may need a mental health evaluation for somebody who might have been suspended due to some issue.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Jhilam Biswas Reveals Paths to Mental Health Reform From Forensic Hospitals to Freedom

And then it turns out there's a mental illness involved and we need to know that it's treated in order for them to come back to school. So I end up in a lot of different situations thinking about how did this person get in trouble? In which context did this person get in trouble? Is it related to their mental illness or their autism diagnosis?

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Jhilam Biswas Reveals Paths to Mental Health Reform From Forensic Hospitals to Freedom

And then it turns out there's a mental illness involved and we need to know that it's treated in order for them to come back to school. So I end up in a lot of different situations thinking about how did this person get in trouble? In which context did this person get in trouble? Is it related to their mental illness or their autism diagnosis?

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Jhilam Biswas Reveals Paths to Mental Health Reform From Forensic Hospitals to Freedom

And then it turns out there's a mental illness involved and we need to know that it's treated in order for them to come back to school. So I end up in a lot of different situations thinking about how did this person get in trouble? In which context did this person get in trouble? Is it related to their mental illness or their autism diagnosis?