Psychiatric Nonadherence: A solutions based approach
Forward – Victor M. Fornari
Part I – Mental Health Treatment Nonadherence
Chapter 1 – Health Economics: The Hidden Costs of Mental Illness – D. Richard Martiniand Tammer Attalah
Chapter 2 – Nonadherence in Childhood disorders – Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder – Joseph C. Blader
Chapter 3 – Coming of age and refusing to eat: Overcoming treatment nonadherence for adolescents with Anorexia Nervosa – Victor M. Fornari and Ida F. Dancyger
Chapter 4 – The challenge of nonadherence in Schizophrenia – Ryan E. Lawrence and Lisa Dixon
Chapter 5 – Increasing psychiatric treatment engagement and adherence in the college population – Althea Bardin, Brianna Cheney and Laura Braider
Chapter 6 – Medication Nonadherence in the Geriatric Psychiatric Population: Do Seniors Take Their Pills? – Yun Freudenberg-Hua, Ryan Kaufman, Antonia Alafris, Sukriti Mitttal, Neil Kremen and Erika Jakobson
Part II - What makes a good doctor?
Chapter 7 – Communication Skills Training to Enhance Patient Adherence - Ellen Pearlman and Calvin Chou
Chapter 8 – Humanism and Medical Treatment: Clinicians and Patients Finding Common Ground – Peter Weissman, Alice Fornari and William Branch
Chapter 9 – Narrative Medicine and the treatment resistant patient - Eric R. Marcus and Rita Sharon
Part III - Solving the Dilemma
Chapter 10 – Treatment Adherence from the perspective of Dialectical Behavior Therapy: Sitting in the Boat and Staying the Course – Jennifer H. Byrnes and Adam C. Payne
Chapter 11 – Collaborative Care: An effort to increase behavioral health adherence by supporting the primary care provider – Beth A. Smith and David L. Kaye
Chapter 12 – The Spirit of Motivational Interviewing for Psychiatric Nonadherence – Sandeep Kapoor and Bruce Goldman
Chapter 13 – Pragmatic Trials: Solving the Dilemma of Psychiatric Nonadherence – Claudine Higdon, Rebecca M. Eichenbaum and Melissa P. Delbello
Chapter 14 – Technological Strategies to Address Psychiatric Nonadherence – Sourav Sengupta and Michael Adragna
Chapter 15 – Closing the gap: Where do we go from here? Victor M. Fornari and Ida F. Dancyger
Victor Fornari MD Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
Ida Dancyger PhD Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
Victor Fornari, MD, is the director of the merged Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry of North Shore University Hospital and Long Island Jewish Medical Center, including the Zucker Hillside Hospital and the Cohen Children’s Medical Center. He is also professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at at Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine.
This book explores medical nonadherence to treatment and management of psychiatric disorders across the lifespan. Leading experts in the field, specializing in a range of mental health problems describe the impact of nonadherence in the treatment of children, adolescents, transition age youths, adults, and older adults. The book eloquently articulates the key elements of effective physicians and offers clinical pearls on professionalism, empathy, and the doctor-patient relationship—a key component to solving treatment nonadherence. This volume focuses on solutions for improved clinical outcomes, including communication skills, empathy and building trust, motivational interviewing techniques and the use of technology.
Psychiatric Nonadherence is an excellent resource for all clinicians who care for individuals with psychiatric illness. This timely reference will provide guidance to enhance effective treatment adherence for a wide array of medical practitioners, including child and adolescent, adult forensic, and geriatric psychiatrists, addiction medicine specialists, primary care physicians, psychologists and nurses.