Psychiatric Medication Issues for Social Workers, Counselors, and Psychologists by Bentley Kia J.;

Author:Bentley, Kia J.; [Bentley, Kia J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2022-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

Medication Effect Interpretation and the Social Grid of Management

Jeffrey LonghoferJerry FloerschJanis H. Jenkins

DOI: 10.4324/9781315808611-5

SUMMARY. This article reports on two research projects and argues that current medication management research and practice does not represent the complexity of community-based psychotropic treatment. Ethnographic findings are used to demonstrate that a social grid of management exists to negotiate medication ‘effect’ interpretation. Anthropological and semi-structured interview data are used to illustrate patient subjective experience of atypical antipsychotic treatment. It is argued that ‘active’ and ‘passive’ management relationships are produced by the myriad ways individuals manage the gap between the desired and actual effects of medication. It is shown that psychological and cultural ‘side effects’ are as common as physical ‘side effects.’ [Article copies available for a fee from The Haworth Document Delivery Service: 1-800-HAWORTH. E-mail address: <[email protected]> Website: <http://www.HaworthPress.com> © 2003 by The Haworth Press, Inc. All rights reserved.]

KEYWORDS. Psychotropic treatment, medication management, compliance, qualitative methods, severe mental illness

Research for the study of the subjective experience of atypical antipsychotics was supported by NIMH Grant MH60232 on “Culture, Schizophrenia, and Atypical Antipsychotics,” Janis H. Jenkins, P.I.

This paper was presented at the First National Internet Conference on Social Work & Psychopharmacology, February 3-24, 2003, sponsored by the Ittleson Foundation and the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Social Work in association with Psy Broadcasting Company.

[Haworth co-indexing entry note]: “Medication Effect Interpretation and the Social Grid of Management.” Longhofer, Jeffrey, Jerry Floersch, and Janis H. Jenkins. Co-published simultaneously in Social Work in Mental Health (The Haworth Social Work Practice Press, an imprint of The Haworth Press, Inc.) Vol. 1, No. 4, 2003, pp. 71-89; and: Psychiatric Medication Issues for Social Workers, Counselors, and Psychologists (ed: Kia J. Bentley) The Haworth Social Work Practice Press, an imprint of The Haworth Press, Inc., 2003, pp. 71-89. Single or multiple copies of this article are available for a fee from The Haworth Document Delivery Service [1-800-HAWORTH, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. (EST). E-mail address: [email protected]].

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