Date/Time
1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
1.00 Category I credits for Social Workers
1.00 Psychologists
1.00 MNA Contact Hours for Nurses
Psychotherapists are powerful and often under-utilized allies in engaging our patients in effective use of psychiatric medication. Learn how effective communication between prescribers and psychotherapists can advance “treatment-resistant” patients forward while simultaneously enhancing clinician’s fulfillment in their work. Go beyond discussing neurotransmitters and into the heart of what taking psychiatric medication means to our patients.
Address fears of dependency, loss of identity, weakness, and loss of control. Understand how attachment styles, medical trauma, and minority status predict medication side effects. Cultivate in patients an internal locus of control and self-advocacy skills to reduce side effect burden.
Learn what information psychiatric medication prescribers really want to hear from psychotherapists and vice versa. Together, we are powerful allies in moving treatment forward. This presentation will help clinicians discuss medications in ways that empower their clients to more effectively engage in psychiatric treatment.
Learning Objectives:
Formulate practical therapy techniques for addressing both medication avoidance due to stigma, shame, and fear and medication over-use.
Describe patient attitudes in therapy that enhance medication therapeutic response, reduce medication side effects, and improve patients’ ability to assertively advocate for themselves.
Discuss effective communication and collaboration between psychotherapists and psychiatrists/ other medication prescribers.
This activity is intended for physicians, nurses, psychologists, social workers and other mental health professionals.
Location: Virtual
Sponsored By: Sheppard Pratt
Cost: Free
For questions, email cme@sheppardpratt.org