Thinking about Prescribing

The Psychology of Psychopharmacology with Diverse Youth and Families

Shashank Joshi, Andrés Martin
American Psychiatric Association Publishing
360 pages
ISBN: ‎9781615373888
November 2021

Our remedies are only largely as good as the way in which we dispense them. That's the central premise of Thinking About Prescribing, a new volume that encourages psychopharmacotherapists to view the prescribing of a medication to young patients not as the beginning of the end of a therapeutic conversation, but rather as the beginning of an ongoing alliance with youths and their parents or legal guardians. The book leverages the knowledge of more than two dozen experts as it tackles topics that include: understanding the psychodynamics of medication use in adolescents with serious mental illness; engaging in psychoeducation with patients and their families; prescribing via telemedicine during the COVID-19 pandemic; working with diverse youth and their families.