Medicine compliance is crucial to the successful treatment of serious mental illness. Studies show that medicine noncompliance, failure to take medicine as prescribed, precedes an overwhelming number of client hospitalizations. For certain mental illnesses, such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, medicine compliance may be the single, most important factor in recovery and/or maintenance of a client’s level of functioning. "YOUR MEDICINE" is a series of provider manuals and workbooks to be used in a behavioral healthcare setting.
Friday, February 1, 2008
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