{"id":2504,"date":"2016-08-01T14:56:36","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T14:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drmalliaris.com\/?page_id=2504"},"modified":"2019-04-27T07:51:44","modified_gmt":"2019-04-27T07:51:44","slug":"pharmacotherapy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.drmalliaris.com?page_id=2504","title":{"rendered":"Pharmacotherapy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our mental health practice provides specialist pharmacological treatments for a range of mental health issues.<\/p>\n<p>Our <strong>core philosophy sees psychotropic pharmacotherapy as an additional form of treatment in some mental health disorders but never as the only form of treatment.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We practice within the model of <strong>evidence-based integrative practice<\/strong>, where medication treatments when offered are always combined with evidence-based psychotherapy treatments.<\/p>\n<p>Our team of psychiatrists along with our psychologists will do the following:<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Clinical Evaluation &amp; detailed medical history<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Detailed recording of previous psychotropic treatments<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Lab work and evaluation of each patient&#8217;s blood and metabolic profile<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Patient and family psycho-education about the different medication options<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Specialist psychotropic care integrated with specialist psychosocial treatment<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Advanced monitoring of the psychotropic treatments and the treatment response<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Continuous monitoring of potential side-effects and prompt alleviation\/treatment.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Continuous monitoring of the psychotropic treatment and careful adjustment according to patient&#8217;s needs.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For patients who may need more intensive work or who may start a new medication or make sensitive medication changes\/adjustments\/medication discontinuation, we provide the opportunity to do so within the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dimiourgia.gr\/welcome\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">novel residential treatment programme of Dimiourgia.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If there is a greater need for hospital care we collaborate with a number of private clinics, and our team will look after the care of the patient through out all phases of the treatment.<\/p>\n<p>However, through our clinical work almost always we have avoided the need for hospital care, and we we always aim to provide care on an out-patient basis.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our mental health practice provides specialist pharmacological treatments for a range of mental health issues. Our core philosophy sees psychotropic pharmacotherapy as an additional form of treatment in some mental health disorders but never as the only form of treatment. We practice within the model of evidence-based integrative practice, where medication treatments when offered are [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":27,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drmalliaris.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2504"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drmalliaris.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drmalliaris.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drmalliaris.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drmalliaris.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2504"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.drmalliaris.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2670,"href":"https:\/\/www.drmalliaris.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2504\/revisions\/2670"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drmalliaris.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drmalliaris.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}