Promoting Adherence with Children and Adolescents with Psychosis

ness–career model specifically focuses on these factors and the ways in which they affect seeking and accepting help in health care. These theoretical models offer concepts that can help practitioners understand family and child medication adherence behavior. Overall, practitioners need to keep in mind that parental beliefs and attitudes can strongly influence the treatment decisions that they make on their child’s behalf, that these attitudes and beliefs may change over time, and that they are shaped by a variety of social, cultural and environmental factors.