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1033-24: Enhancing Psychopharmacology through Psychotherapy

Integrate psychotherapy in prescribing practices to better understand the patient, as well as yourself. Discuss how therapeutic approaches can be used to enhance the patient-provider relationship and treatment engagement.

This is an encore presentation from the APNA Clinical Psychopharmacology Institute (CPI) held in June 2024. Please be advised that contact hours may be claimed for either the presentation held at CPI or the annual conference; credit cannot be claimed for both.

Presenters:  Sattaria (Tari) Dilks, DNP, APRN, PMHNP-BC, FAANP; Sara L. Jones, PhD, APRN, PMHNP-BC, FAANP, FAAN

Disclosures:  The APNA planners and faculty, with the exception of those listed below, have no relevant financial relationships to disclose. All relevant financial relationships have been mitigated. Off-label uses will not be discussed during this presentation.

Sattaria Dilks, DNP, APRN, PMHNP-BC, FAANP is a paid speaker for Otsuka and Lundbeck Pharmaceuticals.

Session Length:  1 hour 45 minutes

Target Audience:  RN, APRN

Learning Outcome:
Upon completion of this presentation, the participant will be able to:

• Describe how to integrate psychotherapy in prescribing practices to better understand the patient, as well as oneself.

Keywords:  Psychotherapy, Practice, Prescribing, Engagement, Patient-provider Relationship, Psychopharmacology, Motivational Interviewing, Trauma, Medication Management

Nursing Continuing Professional Development:
1.75 pharmacology contact hours.  * In order to receive contact hours, you must: Listen to the presentation, complete an evaluation, and earn a passing score on the post-test before the expiration date. You will have 5 tries to correctly answer the questions on the post-test and a score of 80% is required to pass. Once you have passed and completed an evaluation, the certificate will be generated online, available for you to print immediately. You cannot earn credit unless all steps are completed.

The American Psychiatric Nurses Association is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

Release Date:  December 6, 2024
Access to this course will end:  December 1, 2026

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