Interdisciplinary coordination across mental health and medical services

The manuals converge on the need for coordinated, team-based care when ketamine is combined with psychotherapy. Across the extracts, the shared emphasis is on collaboration between psychotherapy providers and medical or medication administration staff, with attention to timing, safety oversight, and keeping the treatment model consistent across the team. They also agree that communication across disciplines is central, especially when sharing clinically relevant observations, patient status, readiness, and safety concerns. The sources differ in the specific clinical settings and roles they foreground. The ketamine and prolonged exposure protocol focuses on coordination between psychotherapy providers and infusion or medication administration staff, including seamless transitions between pharmacologic sessions and PE sessions. The SAP and the KAP practice paper are broader in scope, with the SAP highlighting investigators, AUD therapists, psychedelic-knowledge therapists, monitors, and safety committees, and the KAP paper emphasising coordination across prescribing, administration, and psychotherapy functions in multi-site practice settings. They also differ in how explicitly they frame oversight and decision-making. The SAP mentions support for SRC review processes when safety, tolerability, PK, or PD data require decision-making, while the PE protocol centres on protocol fidelity and the practical scheduling of sessions.