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Prescribing = Arrow + Target
Trauma-informed assessment
Identify disorder sources and subtypes to formulate targeted prescribing strategies
Minimum effective dosing and quantities
Safer alternatives to controlled substances for anxiety, insomnia, post-traumatic stress, and attention-deficit disorders
Avoiding combining controlled substances
Promoting Action, Change, and Growth
(not just meds & talk)
Human = Animal + Chaos
Appreciating humans as conditioned, traumatized animals with lived experience attempting to function in chaotic, unnatural modern environments, and circumstances
Encouraging authenticity, humility, and self-awareness
Leveraging strengths, skills, and creativity to manage illness, distress, and dysfunction
Identifying physiologic, thought, and behavioral patterns which are inducing and preserving pain, distress, and dysfunction
Promoting catharsis, acceptance, and resolution
Integrative psychotherapy modalities include cognitive-behavioral, psychodynamic, interpersonal, humanistic, and psychoeducational
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