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"This textbook attempts to ""fill the gap"" regarding treatment strategies and housing options for clients diagnosed with psychogenic polydipsia. This potentially lethal affliction of over-consuming any/all fluids is usually identified as a co-occurrent disorder. It has been estimated that 80% of clients diagnosed with psychogenic polydipsia have schizophrenia. The prevalence of habituated over-consumption of any/all fluids in state psychiatric hospitals in the United States has been estimated between 7%-18% and about half of this population suffer from complications of self induced water intoxication (SIWI). It is the author's opinion that tertiary residential treatment programs may include community-based facilities for this clinical population. A primary theme throughout the book is that tertiary care does not necessarily require inpatient settings, provided appropriate community-based services are adequately staffed by professionals with an expertise in treating a co-occurrent disorder. The book entails five chapters: Chapter One: Designing a Residential Continuum For Clients Diagnosed with Psychogenic Polydipsia; Chapter Two: A comparison of Treatment Programs For Psychogenic Polydipsia; Chapter Three: Behavioral Management Principles and Procedures: Staff Training Document (Modules 1-6); Chapter Four: Psychosocial Rehabilitation as it Pertains to Psychogenic Polydipsia; Chapter Five: Residential Settings: A Continuum of Care for Clients Diagnosed with Psychogenic Polydipsia."

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"Dr. Hutcheon has been a senior psychologist for the past 10 years at Riverview Psychiatric Hospital in Coquitlam, a suburb of Vancouver, British Columbia. From 2001-2006 he was the attending psychologist assigned to Riverview Hospital's ""water ward"" for those patients diagnosed with psychogenic polydipsia.In the past, Hutcheon has held posts as Vice President then Treasurer of the British Columbia Psychological Association (2004-2008). Other previous positions have included Director of Residential Services for the Vocational Rehabilitation Resources Institute (VRRI) in Calgary, Alberta, (1985-1986) and supervising the Child Abuse Hotline of Alberta (1982-1985). This unit was the prototype for the ""Kids Line"" of Canada, a National emergency telephone center for victims of child abuse and neglect.More recently, Hutcheon was Manager of the Young Physically Disabled Program (YPDP), an acquired brain injury rehabilitation inpatient unit at Dr. Vernon Fanning Chronic Care Hospital, Calgary, Alberta (1988-1995) and a partner in a Calgary-based private practice, Roberts, Hutcheon, and Howard Associates (1996-2001). During this period he became qualified as a chartered psychologist in the United Kingdom and the Northwest Territories/Nunuvut in Canada's far north (2001).In 2004 he co-wrote the prototype for the Canadian Psy.D curriculum, which was ratified by the CPA, and was a member of the BCPA Task Force on prescription privileges for psychologists in British Columbia (2009-2011). For the past 10 years, Hutcheon has operated a part-time private practice/consulting business in Port Coquitlam, specializing in mood/ affect disorder, couples and family therapy, sport performance/outcome and industrial-organizational psychology. More recently he has consulted in parental assessment and child custody assessments in Northern Canada."

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