Schizophrenia and other serious mental illness hinder medication compliance. Clinicians are often challenged to increase clients' medication compliance, but lack the tools to enhance consistent treatment compliance. Counselor educators enhance their course instruction by offering a specific counseling tool to students. Those working directly with clients can also use the tool to work with clients to increase medication compliance, thus improving treatment outcome. The role of family in medication compliance is discussed.
Dixon, L.B., & Lehman, A.F. (1995). Family interventions for schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 21, 631-643.
2.
Glynn, S.M., Cohen, A.C., Dixon, L.B., & Niv, N. (2006). The potential impact of the recovery movement of family interventions for schizophrenia: Opportunities and obstacles. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 32, 451-463.
3.
Grasha, E.M. (2002). Discovering pharmacy error: Must reporting, identifying, and analyzing pharmacy dispensing errors create liability for pharmacists?Ohio State Law Journal, 63, 1419-1445. Retrieved September 13, 2007, from the Ohio State Law Journal Web Site : http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/lawjournal/issues/volume63/number5/grasha.pdf
4.
HealthTalk. (2007). Retrieved September 11, 2007 , from HealthTalk Web Site: http://www.healthtalk.com/schizophrenia/ExtractContent.cfm?displayPage
5.
Marcotte, D.E., Wilcox-Gök, V., & Redmon, D.P. (1999). Prevalence and patterns of major depressive disorder in the United States labor force. The Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics, 2, 123-131.
6.
Samuel, M., & Thyloth, M. (2002). Caregivers' roles in India. Psychiatric Services, 53, 346-347.
7.
Morrison, J. (2007). Diagnosis made easier. New York: Guilford Press.
8.
NAMI. (2007). Retrieved September 5, 2007, from the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill Web Site: http://tinyurl.com/lerxs
9.
Segrin, C., & Flora, J. (2005). Family communication. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
10.
Sherman, R.M., & Sherman, R.B. (1964). A spoonful of sugar [recorded by Julie Andrews]. On Mary Poppins [album]. CA: Walt Disney Records.
11.
Smith, C.M., Barzman, D., & Pristach, C.A. (1997). Effect of patient and family insight on compliance of schizophrenic patients. Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 37, 147-154.
12.
Thieda, P., Beard, S., Richter, A., & Kane, J. (2003, April). An economic review of compliance with medication therapy in the treatment of schizophrenia. Psychiatric Services , 54, 508-516. Retrieved July 8, 2008, from http://psychservices.psychiatryonline.org
13.
Weiden, P.J., Kozma, C., Grogg, A., & Locklear, J. (2004). Partial compliance and risk of rehospitalization among California Medicaid patients with schizophrenia. Psychiatric Services, 55, 886-891.
14.
Weiden, P.J., Scheifler, P.L., McEvoy, J.P., Frances, A., & Ross, R. (1999). Expert consensus: Treatment guidelines for schizophrenia . Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 60(Supp1. 11). Retrieved July 8, 2008 , from http://www.psychguides.com/sche.pdf
15.
Zygmunt, A., Olson, M., Boyer, C.A., & Mechanic, D. (2002). Interventions to improve medication adherence in Schizophrenia. American Journal of Psychiatry, 159, 1653-1664.
