The Social Worker and Psychotropic Medication: Toward Effective Collaboration with Mental Health Clients, Families, and Providers
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Books › Medical › Psychiatry › Psychopharmacology
ISBN: 0534365426 / Publisher: Brooks/Cole, August 2000
Drawing from research and authors' own experiences, this book offers social workers information and guidance for addressing medication-related issues with clients, family members, and other mental health care workers. Information is included on all classes of medication and specific drugs, with special consideration to the use of psychiatric medication in treating children and adolescents. This edition includes a new section on the use of herbs and vitamins, and an appendix of all currently available prescription medications. Bentley and Walsh teach at Virginia Commonwealth University. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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This book is a practical and useful resource for social work students and practitioners as they fill and expand their daily roles in psychiatric medication management. The authors provide readers with the information they need to be aware, articulate, and active with respect to client's medication-related dilemmas, but also mindful of the sociopolitical context of prescription practice in psychiatry. All the facts, myths, and relevant information about psychotropic medication are presented to social workers in an easy-to-access manner. Professionals and students alike will find this book to be a practical resource that helps them to be more responsive to the medication-related concerns of their mental health clients and to work more collaboratively on these issues with families and other mental health care providers. Rich in case examples and within a contemporary framework of "partnership" practice, this book provides an up-to-date primer on psychopharmacology and a review of psychosocial interventions.
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