10 Strategies to Improve Results
- Risks/Ethics for Non-Prescribers regarding Psychiatric Medications
- Additional Strategies for specific types of medications
- Adapting your toolbox to address specific populations
- Practical application of strategies using actual case studies
Interactive Skill Building and Case Examples
- Anxiety & PTSD medications
- Most effective medications
- Specific adverse effects & how to ask to elicit full information
- Dosing dangers
- Getting “into the weeds” when benzodiazepines are problematic
- Special populations: adolescents, older adults, substance use disorder comorbidity
Interactive Skill Building and Case Examples
- Depression medications
- Most effective medications
- Response vs. remission
- Specific adverse effects & how to ask
- Suicidality
- Special populations: adolescents, older adults, substance use disorder comorbidity
- When & how to stop
Interactive Skill Building and Case Examples
- Bipolar medications
- Most effective medications
- Specific adverse effects & how to ask, when they are dangerous
- Special populations: adolescents, older adults & substance use disorder comorbidity
- Empowering clients and preventing hospitalization
Interactive Skill Building and Case Examples
- Risks/limitations & evidence-base
- The current literature and knowledge to date
- The literature on medications for adolescents and its more limited nature

