Become the therapist who understands psychiatric drugs and prescriptions,
and can offer the right guidance and support for clients
The rates of prescribing psychiatric drugs have been steadily increasing over recent decades, and it now seems to be the default helping response to mental and emotional distress and disturbance in healthcare settings. As a consequence, it is increasingly common for counsellors and psychotherapists to see clients who are taking a psychiatric drug, or if not, perhaps sometimes even wonder whether they should.
What, then, should counsellors and psychotherapists know about psychiatric drugs and how might they use their knowledge in clinical practice?
This course is delivered by someone who is both an experienced psychiatrist and practising counsellor who has thought deeply about the relevance of knowledge about psychiatric drugs to therapeutic practice – what is important to know, reflect on and to question. It aims to unravel some of the complexity and highlights key debates.
This is your chance to feel more confident and competent in having conversations with your clients about psychiatric drugs, as well as liaising, when needed, with healthcare professionals.
Everything therapists need to know to feel
confident with prescriptions and medications
Webcast Streaming Dates: 8 - 9 April 2021
Only £349 (VAT Inclusive)
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Meet Your Speaker
Dr Rachel Freeth has previously worked as an NHS psychiatrist for 25 years but now works as a therapist in private practice, having gained a diploma in person-centred counselling in the late 1990s. For a number of years she has been delivering workshops and talks on subjects related to psychiatry and mental health, particularly for counsellors and psychotherapists.
See www.rachelfreeth.com for details of her publications, including her latest book ‘Psychiatry and Mental Health. A guide for counsellors and psychotherapists’ (PCCS Books; 2020).
Everything therapists need to know to feel
confident with prescriptions and medications
Webcast Streaming Dates: 8 - 9 April 2021
Only £349 (VAT Inclusive)
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Can't attend live? Sign for the full recorded version of this product.
Get lifetime access and earn CPD hours, included in the registration price.
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To gain a conceptual and theoretical overview of the medical model framework in which the prescribing of drugs is commonly viewed as a necessary treatment for mental illness.
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To understand the complex debates around drug prescribing and why it has become so dominant within Western culture.
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To understand the link between psychiatric diagnosis and drug prescribing.
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To gain an overview of how drugs work in the brain.
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To understand the main categories of psychiatric drugs: antidepressants, antipsychotics, anxiolytics, mood stabilisers and hypnotics.
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To understand which drugs are prescribed for anxiety disorders, depressive disorders, psychosis, bipolar disorders, anxiety disorders, OCD and personality disorders.
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Learn the adverse effects (harms) of psychiatric drugs and issues related to coming off them, such as withdrawal symptoms.
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Understand the potential physiological effects of psychiatric drugs and their impact on the therapeutic process.
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Understand the relationship between psychiatric drugs and counselling and psychotherapy – issues of complementarity and conflict.
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Learn how to have conversations with clients about psychiatric drugs.
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To enable participants to reflect on their own views, assumptions and biases regarding psychiatric drugs and what has informed these.
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Everything therapists need to know to feel
confident with prescriptions and medications
Webcast Streaming Dates: 8 - 9 April 2021
Only £349 (VAT Inclusive)
REGISTER NOW
Can't attend live? Sign for the full recorded version of this product.
Get lifetime access and earn CPD hours, included in the registration price.