When your therapy clients are taking medication, there's a lot to keep up with.
Getting accurate information about prescriptions, expected benefits, and side effects… collaborating with treatment co-providers to track progress… staying current with relevant ethics and scope of practice issues…
Working with clients who use medication is complex, and while many training programs and clinical placements have covered the surface issues...
…most busy therapists have been left on their own to figure out effective ways of providing co-treatment.
That's why we're offering access to this live online training — our most popular psychopharamacology seminar — COMPLETELY FREE!
In just one engaging day, you'll get the guidance and tools you need to approach the medication issues you see in your practice with confidence.
Join Kenneth Carter, PhD, ABPP, as he delivers complicated information in an easy-to-learn, easy-to-implement manner.
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- How to stay within your scope of practice, professional standards, and ethical guidelines when discussing medication with clients
- Best practices for collaborating with prescribers, including when there are differences of opinion
- Mechanisms of action, adverse effects, and drug reactions for the most commonly prescribed medications for anxiety, depression, and more
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Psychopharmacology:
Essential Information for Mental Health Professionals
Essential Information for Mental Health Professionals
As a non-prescribing clinician, there's a lot you can and should do to help your clients who take medications to treat mental health disorders.
Whether your clients come to you already taking medication, or are beginning to wonder whether they should request a consultation...
Understanding the most common medications your clients are on will make you a more effective therapist.
In this exclusive 1-day training, designed for counselors, social workers, psychologists, marriage and family therapists, and other non-prescribing mental health professionals...
…you'll get the skills you need to confidently talk to your clients and prescribers about medications!
Plus, it's packed with examples of practical clinical scenarios that come up every day in practice — AND includes a review of multi-disciplinary ethics codes, legal issues, and real cases.
Join Dr. Kenneth Carter and thousands of your colleagues LIVE online where you'll receive:- A full day of FREE training led by a distinguished, board-certified psychologist with specialty training in psychopharmacology
- The complete set of course materials
- On-demand access to the recording for 14 days*
- And the opportunity to get your questions answered live during the training
You'll walk away ready to make good referrals, answer your clients' questions, coordinate care with co-providers, and much more.
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Essential Information for Mental Health Professionals
Section 1 — Ethics and Practice Issues
- Reasons to be knowledgeable about psychotropic medications
- Decipher ethical standards and scope of practice guidelines
- Best practices for answering common client questions about medications
- How to handle differences of opinion with a prescribing professional
- Structure of the neuron and what it means for medications
- Brand versus generics and why it matters
- Therapeutic window and how clients will talk about their experience
- Resources to stay current on commonly prescribed medications
- Neurobiology, mechanisms of action, benefits and adverse reactions in medication treatment
of depression, anxiety, bipolar, ADHD, psychosis - Treatment of insomnia
- Over the Counter and Herbal Products
- Limitations of the Research and Potential Risks
Kenneth Carter, PhD, ABPP, is a board-certified clinical psychologist and professor of psychology at Oxford College of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, where he has taught psychopharmacology classes since 2005. He received his MA and PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and a postdoctoral master's degree in clinical psychopharmacology from Fairleigh Dickinson University. Dr. Carter has been a psychotherapist and researcher for more than 20 years, during which time he has garnered awards from the National Institutes of Health and other organizations, as well as served as a senior assistant research scientist at the Epidemic Intelligence Service of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He has written several books and articles on introductory psychology, neuropsychology, and psychopharmacology, and he has presented highly-rated workshops to clinicians throughout the United States since 2010.
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