Providing whole person psychiatric medication management
Integrated with brief individual psychotherapy for adults and adolescents as a prescribing psychologist since 2008
TREATMENT APPROACH
- Dr. Vento draws on the psychotherapy tools, diagnostic skills and understanding of the therapeutic relationship to inform her work with the psychiatric medications.
- She integrates elements of solution focused psychotherapy, cognitive behavioral skills and motivational interviewing as seems most helpful to a particular patient along with medications.
- She focuses on helping patients to better understand their symptoms and ways of living better with them.
- She utilizes a shared decision making/partnership model rather than a “I’m the doctor, just do what I say” model.
- She discusses the pros and cons of different options with patients until a collaborative plan is achieved.
- While that plan often involves psychiatric medications it can also be monitoring the variations in symptoms to get better data about triggers and patterns or opting to double down on non-medication strategies and reevaluate after a period of time.
LEARN MORE ABOUT DR VENTO'S APPROACH BELOW
Forms, Great and Small
No great new endeavor can launch without a great deal of newly minted ... paperwork. I understand it's long and asks for a fair amount of detail, especially about the past medications and health conditions.
This information is necessary both to provide high quality care as well as to streamline the prior authorization process if I have to politely ask insurance companies for newer and more expensive medications than they prefer you take. Even if we have worked together in the past and you think I already know your story, I would appreciate putting it down again here because I would hate to accidentally mix up your important clinical details with those of another person with a parallel pattern of symptoms and experiences.
There should be a way to complete the forms on a phone, laptop, or tablet and then submit them electronically; please let Dr Vento know if you run into any issues. I cannot meet with you until the paperwork is completed.
I need this form complete before you are seen for the first time at the new practice
Please complete all of these as well:
Release of Information form for Significant Others (partner, parent, adult child, caregiver, BFF, etc) totally optional but can be helpful to get observations from someone who knows you well:
If you were previously seen at GD Psych Services, please also fill out this release of records from our work there:
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