Medication guidelines

Guidelines and resources for clinicians and clients to understand how to safely use behavioral health medications.

Documents

Antidepressants

Guidance for providers, clients and the interested general public to increase the effectiveness and safety of antidepressant use.

Antipsychotics

Antipsychotic prescribing guidance for providers, clients and the interested general public to increase the effectiveness and safety of antipsychotic use.

Handout for patients listing potential metabolic side effects of antipsychotic medication.

Flier in English describing Anticholinergics, memory problems, and involuntary movements.

Anticholinergics patient flier in: Spanish, Chinese, Russian, Tagalog, and Vietnamese.

Mood stabilizers

Guidance for providers, clients, and the interested general public to increase the effectiveness and safety of mood stabilizer use

Stimulants and non-stimulants

Stimulant and non-stimulant medication prescribing guidance for providers, clients and the interested general public to increase the effectiveness and safety of the use of these medications.

Child, youth, and family medications

Psychotropic medication prescribing guidance and resources for providers, clients, their parents, guardians, and the interested general public to increase the safety of psychotropic medication use in children and adolescents.

Health choices worksheet and medication assent for treatment if very young children in behavioral health.

Health choices worksheet and medication assent for treatment if school aged children in behavioral health.

Health choices worksheet and medication assent for treatment if adolescents in behavioral health.

Other

Guidelines on monitoring blood pressure of adults in the behavioral health setting.

Patient worksheets and education materials covering hypertension in English.

Hypertension patient toolkit in: Spanish and Chinese.