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Slides for course: Collaborating with Psychiatrists and Medication Overview
Collaborating with Psychiatrists and Medication Overview: Part 2
Collaborating with Psychiatrists and Medication Overview: Part 3
Collaborating with Psychiatrists and Medication Overview: Post-Test
Collaborating with Psychiatrists and Medication Overview: Course Eval
This presentation addresses how to create meaningful collaboration between psychiatrists and therapists, with an overview on the use of psychiatric medications in the treatment of mood and anxiety disorders.
Dr. McNary will use clinical case vignettes to examine ways in which effective and efficient communication between therapists and psychiatrists can improve the quality of care and optimize mental health outcomes for our clients. She will explore how to determine when to reach out a psychiatrist and common barriers to meaningful communication between psychiatrists and therapists. Dr. Kinasz will discuss when to consider recommending medication, and will also discuss the different types of medication used, their efficacy in treatment of mood and anxiety disorders, and common side effects.
This training will cover the ways in which effective communication between psychiatrists and therapists can be done, and the positive effects that this has on treatment outcomes. A succinct overview on the types of medications used to treat depression and anxiety will be provided.
Upon completion of this workshop, participants should be able to:
Discuss efficient ways for therapists and psychiatrists to communicate
Determine when reaching out to a psychiatrist is appropriate and warranted
Address common barriers to communication between psychiatrists and therapists
Describe aspects of culturally competent care that psychiatrists tend to when treating mood and anxiety disorders
Name 3 different classes of psychiatric medications used for the treatment of mood and anxiety disorders
Identify at least 2 common side effects in each class of medications used to treat mood and anxiety disorders
Dr. Kathryn Kinasz is a child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist in the CalPsychiatry Menlo Park and San Francisco offices. She specializes in the treatment of psychiatric illnesses that impact children and adolescents including but not limited to mood and anxiety disorders, ADHD, and eating disorders. She also sees children struggling with behavioral issues at home or at school and adolescents exploring their gender identity. Dr. Kinasz also sees adults with similar disorders and has a unique interest in women’s mental health including women facing infertility, psychiatric issues in pregnancy and postpartum, and challenges of new motherhood. Dr. Kinasz uses various treatment tools including psychotherapy, psychoeducation, parent and family interventions, and medications to help an individual achieve their personalized goals in treatment.
Dr. Kinasz carefully listens to a person’s unique story and uses an evidenced-based approach to address their individualized needs. Her child and adolescent fellowship training helps her to explore her patients through a lens that considers biological, psychological, and environmental factors that contribute to their symptoms. She believes in addressing the family system in treatment so that the individual and, when applicable, the entire family can achieve psychological healing and growth.
Dr. Josephine McNary is a board-certified general psychiatrist, working with a variety of patients in her outpatient practice. She specializes in medication management and is particularly interested in the use of complementary medicine for mood and anxiety disorders. Dr. McNary has her BA and MA degrees from Stanford University and her MD from Tulane University. From there, she completed her psychiatry residency at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute, where her training included women’s mental health, mood and anxiety disorders, cognitive behavioral therapy, and couples and family therapy.
Passionate about developing her medical practice and technique, Dr. McNary has completed specialty fellowship training in both psycho-oncology and mood disorders. She served as the staff psychiatrist at the UCLA Simms-Mann Center for Integrative Oncology from 2011-2015, and also completed a fellowship at the UCLA Mood Disorders Clinic, which specializes in treatment-resistant mood disorders. Dr. McNary is the founder of CalPsychiatry, a psychiatry practice with over fifteen psychiatrists in locations throughout California. She is also host of MindStories, a podcast exploring various mental health treatment options available. In addition to working closely with her patients across multiple CalPsychiatry locations, Dr. McNary is currently attending staff at the UCLA Department of Psychiatry, where she provides both inpatient psychiatry and consultation services.
