Competency in combining pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy; integrated and split treatment.

RC483

2004-026974

1-58562-143-9

Competency COMPETENCY, evidence. The legal fitness or ability of a witness to be heard on the trial of a cause. This term is also applied to written or other evidence which may be legally given on such trial, as, depositions, letters, account-books, and the like.
2. in combining pharmacotherapy pharmacotherapy /phar·ma·co·ther·a·py/ (-ther´ah-pe) treatment of disease with medicines.

phar·ma·co·ther·a·py
n.
Treatment of disease through the use of drugs. and psychotherapy psychotherapy, treatment of mental and emotional disorders using psychological methods. Psychotherapy, thus, does not include physiological interventions, such as drug therapy or electroconvulsive therapy, although it may be used in combination with such methods. ; integrated and split treatment.

Riba, Michelle B. and Richard Balon. (Corecomptencies in psychotherapy)

American Psychiatric Pubg., [c]2005

156 p.

$33.95 (pa)

Riba (psychiatry, U. of Michigan) and Balon (psychiatry, Wayne State Wayne State may refer to the following public institutions:

Wayne State College – Wayne, Nebraska
Wayne State University – Detroit, Michigan

U.) intend this work to serve as a clinically oriented basic text for residents and teaching faculty in the basic competencies of integrated and split treatment approaches to combining psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy. Dealing with each of these approaches in turn, they address selection of types of medication and psychotherapy, evaluation and opening, sequencing and maintenance of treatment, and treatment termination. A final chapter considers issues of evaluation, monitoring, and supervision for both approaches.

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Title Annotation:	INTERNAL MEDICINE, PSYCHIATRY
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Date:	Jun 1, 2005
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