title: Building strengths with the Six Es of medication management.
abstract: The authors provide a template of focused skills drawn from various psychotherapy modalities for integration into follow-up psychopharmacology appointments. Titled the Six E model, this approach includes strategies to elicit an agenda, externalize the presenting problem, seek exceptions, engage empathetically, utilize enactments, and offer education. The template was trialed in a child and adolescent outpatient residency clinic under the guidance of two attendings. Qualitative feedback was solicited from fellows following utilization of the template. The Six E model was felt to improve structure and subjective satisfaction of patient, family, and provider participating in the brief appointments.
authors.affiliation: University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia, SC, USA, kenneth.phelps@uscmed.sc.edu.
authors.forename: Kenneth
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Phelps
authors.forename: Crystal
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bullard
authors.forename: Stacey
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Helps
authors.forename: Alexander
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Getz
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000554:Ambulatory Care Facilities; D002648:Child; D002983:Clinical Competence; D056348:Emotional Intelligence; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency / Q000379:methods*; D054539:Medication Therapy Management / Q000193:education*; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy; D017145:Models, Educational; D011368:Professional-Family Relations; D011580:Psychological Techniques / Q000193:education*; D013811:Psychotherapeutic Processes; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000193:education* / Q000379:methods; D011619:Psychotropic Drugs / Q000627:therapeutic use*
chemical_list: D011619:Psychotropic Drugs