|Poll|January 16, 2018

Mini Quiz: Motivational Pharmacotherapy

Motivational interviewing can be very useful for addressing patients' ambivalence about psychopharmacologic issues. Take the quiz and learn more.

Which of the following is NOT true of motivational pharmacotherapy?

A. Integrates motivational interviewing and pharmacotherapy into an approach to enhance patients’ participation in treatment
B. Targets patients' ambivalence about engaging in pharmacotherapy
C. Confronts patients' resistance in a didactic way by challenging ideas on meds & providing didactic modules on antidepressants
D. Differs from META by being conducted by prescribers themselves rather than by additional, non-prescribing clinicians
E. Does not substantially increase the duration of the pharmacotherapy sessions

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