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Dr. Jhilam Biswas

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246 total appearances

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

And how do I provide recommendations for them to return safely into whatever institution that wants to have them back? And how do we do that well? I also have done evaluations for people who are in a forensic hospital or a jail and then are going back into the community. How do we keep that individual safe in the community with services so that they don't end up in this cycle of incarceration?

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

And how do I provide recommendations for them to return safely into whatever institution that wants to have them back? And how do we do that well? I also have done evaluations for people who are in a forensic hospital or a jail and then are going back into the community. How do we keep that individual safe in the community with services so that they don't end up in this cycle of incarceration?

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

And how do I provide recommendations for them to return safely into whatever institution that wants to have them back? And how do we do that well? I also have done evaluations for people who are in a forensic hospital or a jail and then are going back into the community. How do we keep that individual safe in the community with services so that they don't end up in this cycle of incarceration?

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

So what ends up happening is basically I just think of myself as giving mental health consultation to various social systems, whatever they may be, because all of our social systems are interacting with people with mental health issues.

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

So what ends up happening is basically I just think of myself as giving mental health consultation to various social systems, whatever they may be, because all of our social systems are interacting with people with mental health issues.

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

So what ends up happening is basically I just think of myself as giving mental health consultation to various social systems, whatever they may be, because all of our social systems are interacting with people with mental health issues.

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

Great question. The evaluation process, I think if I were to drill it down, it's a psychiatric evaluation. A psychiatrist is a medical doctor. We go through medical school and we do a psychiatry residency. And then we have a subspecialty in understanding how people with mental illness may interact with the law. And so I use a lot of my training and experience to do an evaluation.

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

Great question. The evaluation process, I think if I were to drill it down, it's a psychiatric evaluation. A psychiatrist is a medical doctor. We go through medical school and we do a psychiatry residency. And then we have a subspecialty in understanding how people with mental illness may interact with the law. And so I use a lot of my training and experience to do an evaluation.

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

Great question. The evaluation process, I think if I were to drill it down, it's a psychiatric evaluation. A psychiatrist is a medical doctor. We go through medical school and we do a psychiatry residency. And then we have a subspecialty in understanding how people with mental illness may interact with the law. And so I use a lot of my training and experience to do an evaluation.

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

But a lot of what I'm doing is looking at the psychological factors, biological factors, environmental factors, and social factors, social determinants of health that may have resulted in the illness that I'm seeing. And how do we intervene in all of those various factors so that individual can be stabilized from their crisis and then be maintained in a lower level of care or in the community?

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

But a lot of what I'm doing is looking at the psychological factors, biological factors, environmental factors, and social factors, social determinants of health that may have resulted in the illness that I'm seeing. And how do we intervene in all of those various factors so that individual can be stabilized from their crisis and then be maintained in a lower level of care or in the community?

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

But a lot of what I'm doing is looking at the psychological factors, biological factors, environmental factors, and social factors, social determinants of health that may have resulted in the illness that I'm seeing. And how do we intervene in all of those various factors so that individual can be stabilized from their crisis and then be maintained in a lower level of care or in the community?

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

I do that is I get a very deep social history, developmental history, substance use history, mental illness history, medical history, legal, you know, like there's a lot of ways to get all this history. And then we use all the components that we have kind of sussed out in the examination to describe what we're seeing.

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

I do that is I get a very deep social history, developmental history, substance use history, mental illness history, medical history, legal, you know, like there's a lot of ways to get all this history. And then we use all the components that we have kind of sussed out in the examination to describe what we're seeing.

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

I do that is I get a very deep social history, developmental history, substance use history, mental illness history, medical history, legal, you know, like there's a lot of ways to get all this history. And then we use all the components that we have kind of sussed out in the examination to describe what we're seeing.

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

So the next step after kind of thinking about what is happening, you make a diagnosis if a diagnosis is available to make or not. You can make a diagnosis. Sometimes it requires more testing depending on what the issues we're seeing. Sometimes it's a deep dive into past medical history and legal history or if it's a court case kind of going into the, you know, the components of the court case.

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

So the next step after kind of thinking about what is happening, you make a diagnosis if a diagnosis is available to make or not. You can make a diagnosis. Sometimes it requires more testing depending on what the issues we're seeing. Sometimes it's a deep dive into past medical history and legal history or if it's a court case kind of going into the, you know, the components of the court case.

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

So the next step after kind of thinking about what is happening, you make a diagnosis if a diagnosis is available to make or not. You can make a diagnosis. Sometimes it requires more testing depending on what the issues we're seeing. Sometimes it's a deep dive into past medical history and legal history or if it's a court case kind of going into the, you know, the components of the court case.

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

and making a clinical opinion on that diagnosis. So saying there's this diagnosis, and in my clinical opinion, this is what we need to do next. And then in that clinical opinion, we offer treatment recommendations also.

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

and making a clinical opinion on that diagnosis. So saying there's this diagnosis, and in my clinical opinion, this is what we need to do next. And then in that clinical opinion, we offer treatment recommendations also.