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  • Unlimited access to Peer and Practitioner courses (course outlines below)

About Medication Empowerment

Using psychiatric medication to help us get the life we want is more than learning to take meds on schedule. It’s a journey that takes place over time, and that has many challenges.

Medication Empowerment is a guided process of identifying and working through personal challenges with using medication.

Medication Empowerment includes:

  • Foundations | 5 animated videos covering essential knowledge for psychiatric medication users, with worksheets in English and Spanish (form-fillable for Telehealth), for use with participants and family members.

  • Self-Assessment | An interactive self-report to identify which challenges, if any, a participant is experiencing.

  • Challenges | 9 animated videos on common challenges faced by psychiatric medication users, with worksheets in English and Spanish (form-fillable for Telehealth), for use with participants and family members.

Peer Learning Track

  1. Introduction to Peer Support and Medication Empowerment

    3 lessons
    1. Overview
    2. Medication Empowerment: Introduction to the Course
    3. Self-Assessment (Pre)

  2. The Role of Peer Supporters

    7 lessons
    1. Overview
    2. Roots of the Peer Support Movement and Psychiatric Medication
    3. Reflection
    4. The Peer Supporter and Psych Meds
    5. Reflection
    6. Involuntary Commitment, Medication and the Peer Supporter
    7. Reflection

  3. Foundations

    12 lessons
    1. Overview
    2. What Every Person who is Prescribed Meds Should Know
    3. Welcome to Medication Empowerment
    4. Practice and Reflection
    5. You're diagnosed with mental illness
    6. Practice and Reflection
    7. How to Work with a Doctor
    8. Practice and Reflection
    9. My Goal for Treatment
    10. Practice and Reflection
    11. The Power of Personal Medicine
    12. Practice and Reflection

  4. Optimal Use

    4 lessons
    1. Overview
    2. Getting to Optimal Use of Medication to Support Recovery
    3. Using Meds is a Journey
    4. Practice and Reflection

  5. Challenges

    19 lesson
    1. Overview

    1. Self-Medicating

      1. Self-Medicating
      2. Practice and Reflection

    2. Meds Helpful?

      1. Meds Helpful?
      2. Practice and Reflection

    3. Side Effects

      1. Side Effects
      2. Practice and Reflection

    4. Meds and My Health

      1. Meds and My Health
      2. Practice and Reflection

    5. Motivation

      1. Motivation
      2. Practice and Reflection

    6. Exploration

      1. Exploration
      2. Practice and Reflection

    7. Re-defining Self

      1. Re-Defining Self
      2. Practice and Reflection

    8. Med Fatigue

      1. Med Fatigue
      2. Practice and Reflection

    9. Implicit Racial Bias

      1. Implicit Racial Bias
      2. Practice and Reflection

  6. Pulling it All Together

    4 lessons
    1. Overview
    2. Pulling it All Together
    3. Reflection
    4. Quiz: Medication Empowerment

  7. Wrapping Up

    2 lessons
    1. Self-Assessment (Post)
    2. Course Feedback

Practitioner Learning Track

  1. Introduction to Medication Empowerment

    3 lessons
    1. Overview
    2. Medication Empowerment: Introduction
    3. Self-Assessment (Pre)

  2. Foundations

    12 lessons
    1. Overview
    2. What Every Person who is Prescribed Meds Should Know
    3. Welcome to Medication Empowerment
    4. Practice and Reflection
    5. You're Diagnosed with Mental Illness
    6. Practice and Reflection
    7. How to Work with a Doctor
    8. Practice and Reflection
    9. My Goal for Treatment
    10. Practice and Reflection
    11. The Power of Personal Medicine
    12. Practice and Reflection

  3. Optimal Use

    4 lessons
    1. Overview
    2. Getting to Optimal Use of Medication to Support Recovery
    3. Using Meds is a Journey
    4. Practice and Reflection

  4. Challenges

    19 lesson
    1. Overview

    1. Self-Medicating

      1. Self-Medicating
      2. Practice and Reflection

    2. Meds Helpful?

      1. Meds Helpful?
      2. Practice and Reflection

    3. Side Effects

      1. Side Effects
      2. Practice and Reflection

    4. Meds and My Health

      1. Meds and My Health
      2. Practice and Reflection

    5. Motivation

      1. Motivation
      2. Practice and Reflection

    6. Exploration

      1. Exploration
      2. Practice and Reflection

    7. Re-defining Self

      1. Redefining Self
      2. Practice and Reflection

    8. Med Fatigue

      1. Medication Fatigue
      2. Practice and Reflection

    9. Implicit Racial Bias

      1. Implicit Racial Bias
      2. Practice and Reflection

  5. Pulling it All Together

    4 lessons
    1. Overview
    2. Pulling it All Together
    3. Reflection
    4. Quiz: Medication Empowerment

  6. Wrapping Up

    2 lessons
    1. Self-Assessment (Post)
    2. Course Feedback