[Episode 42] Today’s podcast is the 3rd of 3 interviews amongst Kia J. Bentley on psychopharmacotherapy. Kia J. Bentley is Professor of social piece of occupation at Virginia Commonwealth University inwards Richmond Virginia together with has published extensively inwards the expanse of psychopharmacotherapy (see references below). Psychopharmacotherapy refers to the handling of psychiatric disorders amongst the usage of medication. But, equally Kia pointed out inwards our interview, psychopharmacotherapy is non merely nearly giving people medication together with calling it a day. It is an approach to handling that acknowledges the strengths together with limitations of medications.In today’s podcast, Kia talked nearly a recent, together with equally of this appointment unpublished, written report she did on the pregnant that residents of an in-patient psychiatric facility made out of medication. Kia’s written report was qualitative, pregnant that she analyzed the text of interviews together with drawings from the residents. One of the purposes of qualitative research is to prepare a deeper agreement of the meanings that people brand out of their lives together with experiences. Our conversation turned out to hold upward non alone a fascinating thought into the meanings that the residents made of medication, but it was also a wonderful sketch of Kia’s procedure of making pregnant out of the interviews together with drawings. In qualitative research, the researcher is the analytical tool, together with Kia’s struggles amongst making sense of these meanings is key to qualitative inquiry.
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Based on an analysis of the residents’ narratives, Kia identified 7 dimensions of meaning, the intersection of which suggested that medication incites meaning, influences identity, together with impacts life. The 7 dimensions are:
- As a positive forcefulness across dimensions of functioning
- As a tolerated fact of life
- As primarily internal together with private experience
- As prominent constituent of the even out together with development of one’s mental illness
- As terra firma of gratitude together with root of victory
- As prevention of relapse together with protection of humanness
- As a symbol of differentness together with dependency
Kia had each resident depict a moving painting of what medication meant to them. Click on the picture below to run into the full-sized version of a resident's drawing entitled, "Night of the Butterfly":
UPDATE APRIL, 2009: Kia's article volition hold upward published inwards 2010 yesteryear Qualitative Health Research. You tin lav run into all 21 images at her blog:
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In the outset interview, Kia together with I talked nearly key concepts together with the role that social workers tin lav play inwards psychopharmacotherapy. In the minute interview, Kia talked nearly best practices for referring clients for psychiatric medications, resources for social workers interested inwards learning to a greater extent than nearly psychopharmacotherapy together with how social workers tin lav shout out back critically nearly psychopharmacotherapy for both adults together with children.
Today's interview was recorded using Skype. This is because Kia was inwards Richmond, VA together with I was inwards Pittsburgh, PA. There are some pops together with hisses, but non plenty to detract from the lineament of the interview. If yous bring questions or comments for Kia or me, delight acquire out your comments below together with we'll acquire dorsum to you.
About Kia J. Bentley, Ph.D.
doctor Bentley is a tenured Professor together with Director of the Ph.D. Program at the Social Work at Virginia Commonwealth University where she has taught since 1989. She publishes, presents together with teaches social piece of occupation exercise inwards mental health, peculiarly serving people amongst severe mental affliction together with is involved inwards several community-based research projects. One research projection concerns the pregnant of together with deportment on of taking psychiatric medication, inwards partnership amongst Gateway Homes, a residential handling facility for adults amongst serious mental illness. You tin lav demand heed to a greater extent than nearly that projection inwards our 3rd interview. Another inwards collaboration amongst colleague Sarah Kye Price, is a written report of decision-making nearly psychiatric medication amid pregnant together with postpartum women.
She is the one-time chair of Central State Hospital’s Human Rights Committee, a nation psychiatric facility inwards Petersburg, Virginia, the one-time Chair of the Virginia Mental Health Planning Council, together with served vi years on the Board of Virginia’s chapter of the advocacy organization the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). She has been active amongst the Council on Social Work Education for many years, currently serving equally consulting editor of the Journal of Social Work Education together with was ane of concluding year’s winners of the “Reviewer of the Year Award.” She is an active together with enthusiastic site see chair together with accreditation consultant. In the yesteryear she has served on their Commission on the Role & Status of Women for 6 years together with their Commission on Accreditation for three.
References together with Resources
- Bentley, K.J. & Collins, K.S. (2006). Psychopharmacological handling for kid together with adolescent mental disorders. In C. Franklin, M. B. Harris, & P.A. Meares (Eds.) The schoolhouse services sourcebook: H5N1 guide for school-based professionals (pp. 15-30). NY: Oxford University Press.
- Bentley, K. J. & Walsh, J. (2006). The social worker & psychotropic medication: Toward Effective collaboration amongst mental wellness clients, families together with providers (3rd Ed.). Belmont: CA: Wadsworth.
- Bentley, K.J., Walsh, J. & Farmer, R. (2005a). Roles together with activities of clinical social workers inwards psychopharmacotherapy: Results of a national survey. Social Work, 50(4), 295-303.
- Bentley, K.J., Walsh, J. & Farmer, R. (2005b). Referring clients for psychiatric medication: Best practices for social workers. Best Practices inwards Mental Health, 1(1), 59-71.
- Bradley, S. (2003). The psychology of the psychopharmacology triangle: The client, the clinicians together with the medication. Social Work inwards Mental Health, 1(4), 29-50.
- Buelow, G., Hebert, S. & Buelow, S. (1999). Psychotherapist's resources on psychiatric medications: Issues of handling together with referral. Belmont, CA: Brooks/Cole.
- Floersch, J., Townsend, L., Munson, M., Winbush, V., Kranke, D., Faber, R., Thomas, J., Findling, R. & Jenkins, J. (2007, Jan 13) Adolescent sense of psychotropic treatment. Paper presentation at the Society for Social Work together with Research, San Francisco, CA.
- Ingersoll, R.E. & Rak, C. F. (2006). Psychopharmacology for the helping professions: An integral exploration. Belmont, CA: Thomson.
- Jenkins, J., Strauss, M.E., Carpenter, E.A., Miller, D., Floersch, J. & Sajatovic, M. (2005). Subjective sense of recovery from schizophrenia-related disorders together with atypical antipsychotics. International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 51(3), 211-227.
- Karp, D. A. (2006). Is it me or my meds?: Living amongst antidepressants. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
- Stahl, S.M. (2000). Essential psychopharmacology: Neuroscientific terra firma together with practical applications. (2nd Ed). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (advanced knowledge)
- Walsh, J., Farmer, R., Taylor, M.F., & Bentley, K.J. (2003). Ethical dilemmas of practicing social workers around psychiatric medication: Results of a national study. Social Work inwards Mental Health, 1(4), 91-105.
- Psychiatric Medications (n.d.). Wikipedia. Retrieved May 22, 208 from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychiatric_medication
- Wilens, T.E. (2004). Straight verbalise nearly psychiatric medications for kids, Revised edition. NY: The Guilford Press.
APA (6th ed) citation for this podcast:
Singer, J. B. (Producer). (2008, June 30). Making pregnant out of medication: Interview amongst Kia J. Bentley, Ph.D. [Episode 42]. Social Work Podcast [Audio podcast]. Retrieved from /search?q=psychopharmacotherapy-and-social-work
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