Psychiatric Nonadherence: A Solutions-Based Approach

Description

This book explores medical nonadherence to treatment and management of psychiatric disorders across the lifespan. Leading experts in the field, specializing in a range of mental health problems describe the impact of nonadherence in the treatment of children, adolescents, transition age youths, adults, and older adults. The book eloquently articulates the key elements of effective physicians and offers clinical pearls on professionalism, empathy, and the doctor-patient relationship—a key component to solving treatment nonadherence. This volume focuses on solutions for improved clinical outcomes, including communication skills, empathy and building trust, motivational interviewing techniques and the use of technology. Psychiatric Nonadherence is an excellent resource for all clinicians who care for individuals with psychiatric illness. This timely reference will provide guidance to enhance effective treatment adherence for a wide array of medical practitioners, including child and adolescent, adult forensic, and geriatric psychiatrists, addiction medicine specialists, primary care physicians, psychologists and nurses. Front Matter ....Pages i-xiv Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Health Economics: The Hidden Costs of Mental Illness (D. Richard Martini, Tammer Attallah)....Pages 3-16 Nonadherence in Childhood Disorders: Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (Joseph C. Blader)....Pages 17-30 Coming of Age and Refusing to Eat: Overcoming Treatment Nonadherence for Adolescents with Anorexia Nervosa (Victor Fornari, Ida Dancyger)....Pages 31-42 The Challenge of Nonadherence in Schizophrenia (Ryan E. Lawrence, Lisa Dixon)....Pages 43-57 Increasing Psychiatric Treatment Engagement and Adherence in the College Population (Althea Bardin, Brianna Cheney, Laura Braider)....Pages 59-80 Medication Nonadherence in the Geriatric Psychiatric Population: Do Seniors Take Their Pills? (Yun Freudenberg-Hua, Ryan Kaufman, Antonia Alafris, Sukriti Mittal, Neil Kremen, Erika Jakobson)....Pages 81-99 Front Matter ....Pages 101-101 Communication Skills Training to Enhance Patient Adherence (R. Ellen Pearlman, Calvin Chou)....Pages 103-112 Humanism and Medical Treatment: Clinicians and Patients Finding Common Ground (Peter Weissmann, Alice Fornari, William T. Branch Jr.)....Pages 113-127 Narrative Medicine and the Treatment-Resistant Patient (Eric R. Marcus, Rita Charon)....Pages 129-142 Front Matter ....Pages 143-143 Treatment Adherence from the Perspective of Dialectical Behavior Therapy: Sitting in the Boat and Staying the Course (Jennifer H. Byrnes, Adam C. Payne)....Pages 145-164 Collaborative Care: An Effort to Increase Behavioral Health Adherence by Supporting the Primary Care Provider (Beth A. Smith, David L. Kaye)....Pages 165-176 The Spirit of Motivational Interviewing for Psychiatric Nonadherence (Sandeep Kapoor, Bruce Goldman)....Pages 177-189 Pragmatic Trials: Solving the Dilemma of Psychiatric Nonadherence (Claudine Higdon, Rebecca M. Eichenbaum, Melissa P. DelBello)....Pages 191-200 Technological Strategies to Address Psychiatric Nonadherence (Sourav Sengupta, Michael Adragna)....Pages 201-212 Closing the Gap: Where Do We Go from Here? (Victor Fornari, Ida Dancyger)....Pages 213-215 Back Matter ....Pages 217-222