Description
This up-to-date primer on psychopharmacology and psychosocial interventions serves as a useful resource as you expand your day-to-day roles in psychiatric medication management. Presenting material within a latest framework of “partnership” practice that may be wealthy with case examples, the authors offer facts, myths, and relevant information about psychotropic medication in a very simple-to-get right of entry to manner. Content on numerous topics, including coverage of children and adolescents, helps you grow to be more responsive to the medication-related concerns of mental health clients–and work more collaboratively on these issues with families and other mental health care providers. Data from the authors’ national survey of randomly selected NASW members provides information that lets you have in mind and active with respect to clients’ medication-related dilemmas, but also mindful of the sociopolitical context of prescription practice in psychiatry.