Thinking about Prescribing: The Psychology of Psychopharmacology with Diverse Youth and Families - Paperback

by Shashank V. Joshi (Editor), Andrés Martin (Editor)

Chapters tackle issues ranging from the psychodynamics of medication use in youth with serious mental illness, adapting evidence-based motivation and therapy techniques to enhance adherence, cultivating the synergistic role of primary care providers and psychotherapists, engaging in psychoeducation, to prescribing via telemedicine.

Front Jacket

Our remedies are only largely as good as the way in which we dispense them.

That is the central argument of Thinking About Prescribing. In this new, thought-provoking volume, more than two dozen experts make the case for an ongoing alliance between psychopharmacotherapists, young patients, and their families.

Chapters tackle issues ranging from the psychodynamics of medication use in adolescents with serious mental illness, the synergistic role of primary care providers and psychotherapists, engaging in psychoeducation with patients, to prescribing via telemedicine. Readers will pick up the foundational knowledge they need to develop a partnership with patients that is based on trust and candid communication--rather than on just the cold facts psychotropic medications. Most chapters feature key takeaways that distill the most salient points, helping readers to reference--and retain--the information more easily.

Author Biography

Shashank V. Joshi, M.D., is Professor of Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and Education at the Stanford University School of Medicine and Graduate School of Education, Director of School Mental Health at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, and a Faculty Advisor at the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE), in Stanford, California.

Andrés S. Martin, M.D., M.P.H., is the Riva Ariella Ritvo Professor in the Child Study Center and Director of the Standardized Patient Program at the Teaching and Learning Center, Yale School of Medicine, in New Haven, Connecticut. He is Medical Director of the Children's Psychiatric Inpatient Service at Yale New Haven Health, in New Haven, Connecticut.