J. Cliff Green, M.D. – Page 2
What is your practice in regards to psychiatric medications?
Some patients prefer to just take medication. Others want to solve their problems using psychotherapy alone. I do either or both depending on the individual’s problems and wishes. Quite often what happens is that patients start by taking medication while they work on their problems in psychotherapy. When they have resolved the situation triggering their symptoms they stop the medication. Since I believe that it works best for the same individual to prescribe medication and do the psychotherapy, I do not prescribe medication for patients who are seeing other therapists.
What form of psychotherapy do you use?
Short-Term Psychotherapy. I learned how to do this form of treatment by working for a number of years with one of the best known short-term therapists. I use this form of psychotherapy because it shortens the overall time in treatment. For example, if someone’s problem would ordinarily take 20 sessions to resolve, STP would speed up the process so that only 5 – 10 sessions would be required. Another reason I use STP is that it is often effective when other types of psychotherapy e.g. Cognitive Behavior Therapy, etc. have not worked.
I am an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University Of Washington Medical School Department Of Psychiatry and teach psychotherapy to psychiatric residents in training.
THE FOLLOWING IS A BRIEF SUMMARY OF MY EXPERIENCE
CERTIFICATION:
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in Psychiatry
CURRENT ACADEMIC APPOINTMENT:
Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Washington, Department of Psychiatry
PREVIOUS ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS:
Instructor, Menninger School of Psychiatry
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Duke University
Lecturer in Pharmacy, Washington State University
Adjunct Professor, Gonzaga Universsity
HOSPITAL AFFILIATION:
Sacred Heart Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry
