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Provides social workers with strategies for including clients, family members, and other mental health care workers in decisions regarding medication-related issues. Reviews psychopharmacology principles and the different types of psychotropic medications and their uses, and examines research on psychosocial interventions including consumer and family psychoeducation and medication monitoring, integrating material on the political and ethical contexts of social work and psychopharmacological practice. For professionals and students. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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Kia J. Bentley and Joseph Walsh present a book that is truly the first of its kind. All the facts, myths, and relevant information about psychotropic medication is 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 on psychosocial interventions to help in effective medication management.
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