Dr Kerryn Armstrong Psychiatrist, Cape Town

Dr Kerryn Armstrong Psychiatrist
Address:
13 Tullyallen Road, Rondebosch, Cape Town, 7700

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Dr Kerryn Armstrong is a specialist psychiatrist committed to providing holistic care to individuals and their families, with the aim of healing and enhancing lives. Her particular interests include child and adolescent psychiatry, geriatric psychiatry, anxiety disorders, depression, bipolar and psychotic disorders, eating disorders and personality disorders. She has special expertise in cognitive-behaviour therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy and mindfulness-based stress reduction therapy, which she uses in combination with psychopharmacology to promote personal recovery in the fullest sense.


Company description

Antipsychotic agents form the mainstay of treatment for
many patients with serious mental illness. These agents
are used in a range of psychiatric disorders, including the
schizophrenia spectrum, bipolar disorder, and substanceinduced
disorders. Local and international clinical practice
guidelines for the treatment of schizophrenia1, 2 advocate
antipsychotic monotherapy as the routine approach.
Guidelines recommend avoiding antipsychotic polypharmacy
(APP), which can be defined as co-prescription of
more than one antipsychotic drug for a given patient.3
Exceptions to this may be when APP is required for short
periods when switching agents or in treatment-resistant
cases, when augmentation of clozapine with another antipsychotic
agent may be considered, although supporting
evidence for this remains weak.4, 5 Treatment guidelines
recommend use of antipsychotics as part of treatment
options in bipolar disorder, but do not advocate an APP
approach.

Categories & Keywords

  • Therapy
  • Anxiety
  • Psychiatrist
  • Psigiater

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