Taking the Anxiety Out of the Psych Consult - Live Webinar on December 23, 2024 10AM ET
Learn about psychiatric pharmacy: Understand medications for depression and psychosis, treatment strategies, and side effect management. Enhance patient care in this specialized field.
About this webinar
Psychiatric care is frequently placed in a category of its own, outside of general medicine, leaving many providers and pharmacists alike uncomfortable with the appropriate care of psychiatric patients. Through discussions with local pharmacy organizations and colleagues, it is clear that a review of psychiatric pharmacy would be helpful to increase patient care in this area. The activity will review common medication classes and specific medications utilized in the psychiatric practice, mainly antidepressants and antipsychotics. General treatment strategies will be reviewed for the treatment of patients with depressive disorders and side effect management will be discussed for both classes of medications.
Pharmacist Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of this continuing education activity, the participant will be able to:
Discuss pharmacologic management of major depressive disorder in patients who are partially responding or treatment-resistant to antidepressant therapy
Compare and contrast pertinent antidepressant side effects and their associated management
Evaluate and recommend appropriate management for second-generation antipsychotic agents
Pharmacy Technician and Other Healthcare Professionals Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of this continuing education activity, the participant will be able to:
Discuss pharmacologic management of major depressive disorder in patients who are partially responding or treatment-resistant to antidepressant therapy
List pertinent antidepressant side effects and their associated management
Identify appropriate management for second-generation antipsychotic agents
Instructors
Bennett Doughty earned his PhD degree from the University of Connecticut School of Pharmacy in 2016. Following graduation, Doughty completed two years of residency training at the VA Connecticut Healthcare System in West Haven, Conn., specializing in psychiatric pharmacy. He joined the Binghamton School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences in 2018 as a clinical assistant professor in psychiatry/neurology within the Department of Pharmacy Practice. He currently is the treasurer/secretary of the New York State chapter of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP) and serves on the College of Psychiatric and Neurologic Pharmacists (CPNP) National Consumer Relations Board. His research interests primarily focus on the engagement of patients in substance use disorder treatment, particularly within the opioid epidemic.