Best Practices for Best Outcomes: Collaborative

interactions of behavioral, medical and

psychiatric services

Department of Mental HealthDivision of Developmental Disabilities

April 13, 2010

Emphasize importance of this initiative

Get teams working together Work towards improvements if already following

Change practices if necessary

Goals for this meeting

Describe problems with Poly-pharmacy and some common errors.

Understand the trends in prescribing in Missouri habilitation centers and discuss and problem solve towards changing the trends

Understand and utilize Reasonable Rate of Taper in cases needing medication changes

Discuss best practices in for addressing behavioral and psychiatric issues for consumers with intellectual disabilities

Develop capacity to utilize functional assessment methodology and data towards team based decision making when addressing behavioral and psychiatric issues for consumers with intellectual disabilities

Develop action plan towards implementation of best practices

Learning Objectives