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On Demand Grand Rounds: Thinking about Prescribing: What the Therapeutic Alliance, Evidence-based Psychotherapy and Relational Principles Teach Us about Psychopharmacology with Diverse Youth and Families
This presentation was originally reviewed on December 13, 2023, and broadcast live online on December 13, 2023, from 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM ET.
The views and opinions expressed by this presenter in this lecture are their own, and do not represent the views of Sheppard Pratt.
This presentation will explore the relational aspects of psychopharmacological work with youth and families. While technical and scientific knowledge can be taught and examined during medical education, the therapeutic skills also known as “nonspecific” treatment factors or “common factors” are more elusive and harder to describe.
Differences in culture between the prescriber and the patient often lead to differing perspectives and, if not explored, can interfere with the treatment alliance and subsequently with treatment adherence and/or resistance. Cultural concordance is crucial to teach physicians how to appreciate the cultural background unique to each patient in a way that values and honors our similarities and our differences. In keeping with the adage, The formulation must always precede the prescription, recent work has highlighted the use of the DSM-5 Cultural Formulation Interview as an important tool to more fully understand a young person in the context of their daily life, as part of comprehensive treatment planning.
We propose that the term ‘med check’ is not only a misnomer that simply doesn’t exist in child and adolescent psychiatric treatment (as if the patient just comes to us wanting to ‘talk about their meds’), but more importantly it is a disservice to the nature and intention of our work with youth and families. For such time-limited visits where the medication issues are a primary focus, we propose the term, ‘brief pharmacotherapy visits’, which allows us to retain our role as therapists (as an inextricable part of psychopharmacology). An effective pharmacotherapy appointment necessitates the appreciation of many things that inform treatment, and thus pharmacotherapy decisions, including the intricacies of an individual’s culturally informed, biopsychosocial story. It has consistently been shown that strong therapeutic alliances between a patient and their mental health provider, as well as empathy demonstrated by the latter, lead to more positive clinical and functional outcomes- and thus to the primary goal of evaluating and promoting mental health and well-being.
Target Audience
This activity is intended for physicians, nurses, psychologists, social workers and other mental health professionals.
Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of this activity, attendees will be able to:
- Describe the essential features of the Y-model of psychotherapy and how relational aspects of pharmacotherapy are key to child & adolescent psychiatric practice, even for brief visits.
- Identify techniques, adapted from evidence-based psychotherapies, to enhance medication adherence in diverse youth populations.
- List strategies to cultivate a pharmacotherapeutic alliance when engaging with patients and families via telehealth, including in the school setting.
- Define how to best utilize the 30-minute Brief Pharmacotherapy Visit (BPV), so that the alliance is nurtured and time is most efficiently utilized.
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About the speaker
Dr. Shashank Joshi is Professor and Director of Training in Pediatrics, General Psychiatry and Child & Adolescent Psychiatry at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He also serves as Director of School Mental Health at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford and Senior Associate Vice Provost for Academic Wellbeing at Stanford University.
He is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) and a member of the Student Mental Health Policy Workgroup for the State of California. He serves on the advisory boards of the Jed Foundation and the National Center on School Mental Health.
Dr. Joshi's publications focus on interprofessional collaboration, cultural aspects of pediatric health, wellbeing promotion in youth and young adults, and suicide prevention in school settings. He is the lead author of the K12 Toolkit for Mental Health Promotion and Suicide Prevention used by the California Department of Education. His current book, Thinking About Prescribing: The Psychology of Psychopharmacology with Diverse Youth & Families (American Psychiatric Press 2022), examines the relational and psychotherapeutic aspects of medication treatment.
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Shashank V. Joshi, MD, FAAP, DFAACAP, reports receiving royalties from APA Publishing during the last 24 months. He will not discuss any products, services, or off-label uses in this presentation. All conflicts have been mitigated through review.
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Grand Rounds: Thinking about Prescribing: What the Therapeutic Alliance, Evidence-based Psychotherapy and Relational Principles Teach Us about Psychopharmacology with Diverse Youth and Families
Shashank V. Joshi, MD, FAAP, DFAACAP
Professor of Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and Education, Stanford University School of Medicine
Senior Associate Vice Provost for Academic Wellbeing, Stanford University
Director of School Mental Health Services, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford
Stanford, CA
Originally reviewed December 13, 2023.
Originally broadcast live December 13, 2023, from 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM ET
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