Opinion | 'For 30 years, policymakers across the country have rejected over 200 bills to allow psychologists to prescribe psychiatric medications. Today, only five states allow such practice.'
Currently, only medically trained professionals — physicians, psychiatrists, nurse practitioners orpsychologists would be the only non-medically trained prescribers in Colorado.
Therefore, prescribing powerful psychiatric medications to children, which impact both the mind and body, should be done within the context of the “medical home,” an evidence-based approach where a full picture of a child’s health is known, considered, and evaluated. Addressing the pediatric mental health crisis requires access to more mental health professionals and therapeutic interventions, not more prescribers. In fact, adding more prescribers could mean fewer mental health professionals available to offer the counseling, assessments, and therapeutic supports that work in tandem with medications.
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