Overview
Assignment (3-5 pages)
- Give a minimum of four (4) reasons why a client might engage in medication nonadherence.
- What are systemic barriers to medication adherence? Give at least one (1) cultural example where medication nonadherence is a factor that we might face.
- What are counseling techniques that have the potential to improve adherence?
- What are counseling techniques that have the potential to decrease adherence?
- What is appropriate information for you to get from the prescriber, that might help you when working with your client around medication adherence and nonadherence?
- How would you want to be treated if you were in your client’s shoes, skeptical about the use of medications for treatment of mental health and/or substance use disorders?
main reference is- Sinacola, R. S., Peters-Strickland, T., & Wyner, J. D. (2020). Basic psychopharmacology for mental health professionals (3rd ed.). Hoboken, NJ: Pearson.
- Chapter 9, “Treatment of ADHD and Disorders of Attention”