(Also try: Name that Therapy) Pharmacotherapy, or drug therapy, is the use of drugs to treat psychological disorders. The purpose of this matching exercise is to help you learn the functions of some of the more common drugs used in pharmacotherapy. Below you will find two lists. The list on the left contains both the generic and trade names of some of these drugs. To the right of each of these sets of names is an empty box. Please identify the therapeutic function each of the drugs by writing only one of the following four terms in each box:
- Antipsychotic (drugs used to treat the symptoms of schizophrenia)
- Antidepressant (drugs used to treat the symptoms of depression)
- Antianxiety (drugs used to treat the symptoms of anxiety)
- Antimanic (drugs used to treat the manic phase of bipolar disorder)