The Therapist''s Guide to Psychopharmacology, Third Edition: Working with Patients, Families, and Physicians to Optimize Care

About James L. GriffithJoEllen PattersonTodd M. Edwards

JoEllen Patterson PhD LMFT is Professor in the Marital and Family Therapy Program at the University of San Diego. She is also Associate Clinical Professor of Family Medicine Global Health and Psychiatry at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine. Dr. Patterson has published five books that have been translated into multiple languages and has served on the editorial boards for journals including Families Systems and Health; Family Process; and the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy. Dr. Patterson received a Rotary International Scholarship to work at Cambridge University as well as three Fulbright Awards to work in Norway Hong Kong and New Zealand. Her global work includes initiatives in Jordan and Ecuador. James L. Griffith MD is the Leon M. Yochelson Professor and Chair in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the George Washington University (GWU) School of Medicine and Health Sciences. As a psychiatric educator Dr. Griffith developed GWU psychiatry residency training distinguished for its excellence in cultural psychiatry global mental health and psychosocial care for medically ill patients. Dually trained in psychiatry and neurology Dr. Griffith for three decades has taught psychiatry residents a curriculum that integrates humanistic psychiatry with psychopharmacology now published in Academic Psychiatry as a model curriculum for psychiatry residencies. Todd M. Edwards PhD LMFT is Professor in the Marital and Family Therapy Program at the University of San Diego. He is also Voluntary Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Public Health at the University of California San Diego and Visiting Professor at NOVA University in Lisbon Portugal. Dr. Edwards is a clinical member and approved supervisor in the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy and an editorial board member for the American Journal of Family Therapy and the Journal of Family Psychotherapy.