Prescribing Together: A Relational Guide to Psychopharmacology

Warren A. Kinghorn, MD ThD (Durham VA Medical Center ),Abraham M. Nussbaum (Denver Health)

Prescribing Together: A Relational Guide to Psychopharmacology
Format
Paperback
Publisher
American Psychiatric Association Publishing
Country
United States
Published
1 August 2021
Pages
296
ISBN
9781615372881

Prescribing Together: A Relational Guide to Psychopharmacology

Warren A. Kinghorn, MD ThD (Durham VA Medical Center ),Abraham M. Nussbaum (Denver Health)

What if, rather than acting only as dispensers of medication, mental health clinicians and primary care clinicians treating mental disorders were also collaborators with patients in the prescribing relationship? It’s a simple but profound shift in how to think about approaching psychopharmacology, and in Prescribing Together, Warren Kinghorn and Abraham Nussbaum argue that this sort of human-to-human relationship-building is critical to prescribing more effectively and to achieving health equity.

While many other books have focused on what to prescribe for given conditions, this volume is more concerned with how to prescribe: how to talk to patients about medications, how to understand the cultural and social factors that affect how both clinicians and patients relate to medication, and how to build trust in the relationship.

Each chapter offers a practical introduction to at least one key concept or skill, from cultural formation and structural competency to medication concordance and deprescribing. Profiles, rich in personal anecdotes, of a diverse group of accomplished clinicians serve as an engaging, real-life foundation for evidence-based strategies for building strong alliances in the context of 13 mental disorder categories, including: * Schizophrenia* Bipolar disorder* Major depressive disorder* Generalized anxiety disorder* Neurocognitive disorders* Borderline personality disorder

In drawing a contrast between a dispenser and a collaborator model, Prescribing Together encourages clinicians not just to look at their patients, but to look with them at their lived experience, to understand their stories and interpersonal and social contexts-all with the aim of returning agency to patients and empowering them to set meaningful goals and to be active particpants in their own flourishing.

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