PRESCRIPTIONS & CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES AGREEMENT

In our efforts to provide comprehensive mental health services, Meaningful Change: Clinical & Consultation Psychology utilizes pharmacotherapy and medication management services in treating a range of psychiatric disorders. Psychiatric services at this practice are provided by a Physician Assistant who specializes in psychiatry. Since psychiatric medication and controlled substances (Anticonvulsants, Benzodiazepines, Sedative-Hypnotics, and Stimulants) require more responsibility from both patient and prescriber, signing a "Prescription & Controlled Substance Agreement" will be a mandatory part of the intake process.

SPECIAL POLICIES FOR THE USE OF STIMULANTS IN THE TREATMENT OF ADHD

It will be the expressed policy of Meaningful Change: Clinical & Consultation Psychology and its medications prescribers that the “stimulant” class of medication will only be utilized in the treatment of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (AD/HD) when the patient has undergone formal testing and diagnosis by a qualified doctoral level clinical psychologist or neuropsychologist. This must be evidenced in the treatment record.