Admission and Emergency Assessments: A Handbook for Clinicians

David Houvenagle, PhD, LCSW, is a board-approved clinical supervisor in the state of Kentucky. He has thirty years of professional experience in outpatient, partial hospitalization, intensive outpatient, inpatient hospitalization, and assessment settings. His previous published works include Local Healthcare Politics: Louisville's Growth Machine 1947-2007 and Clinician's Guide to Partial Hospitalization and Intensive Outpatient Practice.
John Schmanski, M.Ed, LPC is a behavioral health case manager for an insurance company. His experience in the behavioral health field spans fifteen years. As an assessment clinician at a psychiatric hospital, he evaluated patients for more than a decade and trained novice clinicians, and he has experience in inpatient and outpatient mental health settings.