COURSE:
NU643: Advanced Psychopharmacology
To complete this discussion
- Compare the Ted Talk video to the NY Times article by Carlat, D. (2010). Mind Over Meds (PDF), and answer the following questions:
- How do you view the role of psychiatric medication in the promotion of patient well-being?
- What are the advantages and disadvantages of being a psychopharmacologist versus also integrating psychotherapy in your clinical practice?
- What does the literature say (that is, support for or lack of evidence) for integration of psychotherapy and prescribing by the same clinician (APRN or MD)?
- What evidence supports the use of both psychotherapy and psychopharmacology as the role for the PMHNP to improve patient outcomes?
Instructions
- Carefully read the questions presented.
- Reflect on the assigned materials from this week and consider experiences from your own practice to support your ideas. Please use proper citations and APA format.
- You may wish to refer to outside sources as well to support your statements.
SOLUTION
Toward a New Understanding of Mental Illness Video Transcript
00:12
So let’s start with some good news, and the good news has to do with what do we know based on biomedical research that actually has changed the outcomes for many very serious diseases?
00:26
Let’s start with leukemia, acute lymphoblastic leukemia, ALL, the most common cancer of children. When I was a student, the mortality rate was about 95 percent. Today, some 25, 30 years later, we’re talking about a mortality rate that’s reduced by 85 percent. Six thousand children each year who would have previously died of this disease are cured. If you want the really big numbers, look at these numbers for heart disease. Heart disease used to be the biggest killer,………………………………$5
