Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- About the Contributors -- Introduction -- The Psychiatric Medication History: Context, Purpose, and Method -- Critical Thinking About Psychiatric Drugs -- What Does Biological Psychiatry Rest On? -- How Do Psychotropic Drugs Produce "Therapeutic" Effects? -- Does Prescribing Drugs Represent Progress in Mental Healing? -- What Are Drugs? -- Are Some Drugs Better than Others? -- Drug Effects: Attributes or Properties? -- Drugs or Placebos? -- How Is Knowledge About Drugs Constructed? -- The Medication History from a Critical Perspective -- The Medication History in Psychiatry -- The Psychiatric Medication History: An Interview Schedule -- Conclusion -- References -- The Psychology of the Psychopharmacology Triangle: The Client, the Clinicians, and the Medication -- Introduction -- Outcome and Meaning -- To Refer or Not to Refer? -- Client and the Medication Referral -- Social Worker and the Medication Referral -- Medication Initiation and the Triangular Treatment Relationship -- Client Within the Therapeutic Triangle -- Positive Transference -- Negative Transference -- Clinicians Within the Therapeutic Triangle -- Conclusion -- References -- The Subjective Experience of Youth Psychotropic Treatment -- Introduction -- 1990s: The Decade of the Child's Brain? -- Child and Adolescent Development, Identity, and Psychotropic Treatment -- Why Include Youth Subjective Experience in Practice and Research? -- The Socio-Cultural Context: Managing Youth Psychiatric Disorder and Medications -- Conclusion -- References -- Medication Effect Interpretation and the Social Grid of Management -- Introduction -- The Social Grid of Medication Management -- Methods -- Findings -- Client Subjective Experience of Medication Effects -- Methods.

A Case Illustration of Medication Effect Interpretation -- Discussion -- References -- Ethical Dilemmas of Practicing Social Workers Around Psychiatric Medication: Results of a National Study -- Methodology -- Results -- Demographics -- The Experience of Ethical Dilemmas: Quantitative Data -- "Other" Dilemmas Faced by Practicing Social Workers -- Discussion -- Clients' Rights to Refuse Medication -- The Social Worker's Relationship with the Prescribing Physicians -- Gender Differences in Ethical Dilemmas -- Conclusion -- References -- Obtaining Informed Consent When a Profession Labels Itself as Providing Treatment for Mental Illness -- Medications for Major Depression -- What Is the Efficacy of Antidepressants? -- Factors Contributing to the Urgency for Quick Recovery -- What About Side Effects? -- Is There a Withdrawal Syndrome When Drugs Are Discontinued? -- What We Don't Know About How They Work -- What About Alternatives? -- What Information Can Social Workers Impart? -- References -- Complementary Practices and Herbal Healing: A New Frontier in Counseling Practice -- The Explosion of Health and Wellness Efforts -- Complementary Approaches -- The Use of Herbal Preparations -- Essential Oils -- Flower Essences -- Conclusion and Future Directions -- References -- Index.

Learn more about psychiatric medications to better understand your clientele! Psychiatric Medication Issues for Social Workers, Counselors, and Psychologists explores a range of issues and dilemmas in psychopharmocology practice that emerge especially for social workers, counselors, and psychologists because of their unique roles and perspectives. This book contains qualitative and quantitative research examining the subjective experience of clients who use psychiatric medication. You'll find unprecedented discussion of clinical and ethical situations that arise when social workers and allied health caregivers collaborate with clients and providers around psychiatric medicine. This book contains creative ideas on how social workers and other allied health providers can be more responsive to both adults and children who take medication. Psychiatric Medication Issues for Social Workers, Counselors, and Psychologists focuses on the meaning of medication for the clients who use them and their positive and negative experiences with them over time. This book serves as an innovative forum and effective springboard for productive discussion among practitioners, scholars and researchers about psychiatric medication's relevance to—and interface with—social work practice. This book is designed to help practitioners: understand how clients manage their psychotropic medications and interpret their effects maximize the chances for successful treatment outcome by understanding the meaning, transference, and countertransference stimulated by the triangle created by the client, social worker, and psychopharmacological provider map the sociocultural context of youth medication management and help youthful clients adopt coping mechanisms for everyday medication treatment confront a variety of ethical dilemmas, such as ambiguities around the knowledge base of

practice, appropriate roles of providers, and basic personal and professional values secure informed consent when discussing proposed treatments (including medications) and explain alternative treatments without breaking informed consent laws promote effective and comprehensive helping relationships by being cognizant of alternative practices, herbal preparations, and essential oil and flower essence products that clients could be using on their own This book contains extensive references, suggestions for client-consultation questions, research findings, and interviews with social workers to complement the text. Unique in its focus on the client's point of view, Psychiatric Medication Issues for Social Workers, Counselors, and Psychologists will help you overcome any difficulties of working with clients in drug therapy.

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