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Article: Therapeutic implications of pharmacotherapy: current trends and ethical issues.(Practice & Theory)
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- Journal of Counseling and Development
- Article date:
- June 22, 2004
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During the course of a year, about 1 in 5 Americans experiences a mental health disorder, and about 10% of the U.S. adult population use mental health services during that year (Satcher, 2000). Concurrently, the influence of managed care has increased the number of professional counselors providing mental health services in conjunction with a prescribing physician (Comer, 2002; Imhof, Altman, & Katz, 1998; Meyer & Simon, 1999b). As such, patterns of psychotropic medication use (pharmacotherapy) have changed dramatically. Zito et al. (2003) analyzed community treatment data on children and adolescents to ascertain psychotropic drug use patterns from 1987 to 1996. During the ...