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- Discover the most recent knowledge of how and why mental health drugs function.
Improve your communication and collaboration with prescribing practitioners.
Learn which drugs have been shown to be effective in treating different conditions.
Improve your customers’ drug reactions and clinical results.
Assist your customers in recognizing side effects and understanding their alternatives for dealing with these issues.
Learn about recent prescription patterns, including DSM-5® modifications.
Recognize current debates in the field.Spend twelve action-packed hours learning about the most recent developments in psychopharmacology and medication management trends. Susan Marie teaches psychopharmacology deliberately from her unique viewpoint as a doctored psychiatric nurse practitioner, with an emphasis on the client’s experience. Susan’s substantial 30 years of mental health knowledge and enthusiasm for clients come through in the complexity and completeness of her presentation.
Clients sometimes have only a few minutes with their prescriber and seek further assistance. It’s critical that you can answer their queries, control side effects, and comprehend reactions. Susan gives the knowledge you need to support your clients as a counselor, nurse, psychotherapist, psychologist, and other mental health professionals.
This conference provides opportunity to investigate underserved areas such as ADHD, sleep, food, and drug use issues. Take home specific instructions for geriatrics, pregnant or nursing women, and chronic pain clients. Discuss the influence of the DSM-5® on prescribing trends and the usage of psychotropics in newly specified disorders. You will analyze case examples, debate pharmaceutical disputes, and learn how to successfully interact with prescribing practitioners in addition to a comprehensive ‘nuts and bolts’ overview of medicines.
Susan’s fascinating presentation offers a plethora of take-home “pearls” that you can use to teach your clients about their drugs and how to protect them from potentially harmful, hazardous, or undesirable consequences. This conference will provide you with the most up-to-date drug information as well as tips on how to utilize it most successfully with your client.
Day 1:
Describe how psychotropic drugs for mood disorders are chosen, as well as unique patient features.
Analyze antidepressant activities, therapeutic applications, and side effects.
Assist customers in overcoming obstacles that are impeding the effectiveness of their drug regimen.
Determine therapy alternatives for clients who have treatment-resistant mental disorders.
Explain the activities, side effects, and therapeutic applications of antipsychotic drugs.
Examine three essential techniques for better collaboration with prescribing practitioners.Day 2:
Investigate psychotropic drug therapy possibilities for individuals suffering from Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder.
Discuss how to mix psychotherapy and psychopharmacology for good treatment outcomes. Articulate the usefulness of psychotropic drugs in treating eating disorders.
Create pharmacological treatment alternatives for drug use disorders and talk about how to successfully include medication-assisted treatments into an overall care plan.
Examine the relationship between women’s hormone levels and mental health issues.
Investigate the use of complementary and alternative treatments for mental diseases.
Determine the special pharmaceutical treatment needs of geriatric customers.
Psychopharmacology
Concepts of drug metabolism
What we know and what we don’t know about drug modes of action
Placebo effects: their strength and how to make them work for your client
When to refer for medication- helpful hints for enhancing client interest and engagement
Creating incredibly efficient partnerships with prescribers
Disorders of Depression
Depression’s neurochemistry
Antidepressants and placebo: Who should be treated when?
Antidepressant types: advantages and disadvantages of various drugs
Managing Adverse Effects
Treatment Drug combinations and resistant depression
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders and Trauma-Related Disorders
Anxiety neurochemistry
Panic disorder, phobias, and SGAD
OCD\sPTSD
Interventions in physiology
Medications for anxiety
Antidepressants
Many other options are frequently overlooked.
The risks and benefits of benzodiazepines
How to Spot Dangerous Prescription Patterns
Key pearls for success in weaning off benzos
Managing Adverse Effects
Bipolar Illness
Symptoms and neurochemistry
The Bipolar Spectrum Theory and DSM-5® Changes
Types of mood stabilizers, when to use them, and possible side effects
Lithium\sAnticonvulsants
Augmenting agents for atypical antipsychotics
Effective strategies for improving client outcomes
What the prescriber may not be looking at when it comes to blood levels
Bipolar disorder in pregnant or potentially pregnant women
Schizophrenia/Psychotic Disorders
Psychosis and schizophrenia neurochemistry
First-generation antipsychotic medications (typical)
Generation two (atypical)
Managing Adverse Effects
TD and extrapyramidal symptoms
What blood tests are required for metabolic problems and when are they required?
Diabetes Mellitus Prevention
What is hyperprolactinemia and why do you need to know?
Atypical antipsychotics are used to treat a variety of disorders.
Psychotic disorders and pregnancy
Attention Deficits
Diagnosis differentiation
ADHD Neurochemistry
Disagreement over the use of stimulants to treat ADHD
ADHD and substance abuse
Medication that is stimulating
Alternatives to stimulants
Managing Adverse Effects
Sleep Disorders
Sleep disorders
Diagnosis differentiation
Chicken or the egg? What came first, sleep problems or mental illness
Controversy about treating sleep problems with hypnotics
Sleep interventions that really work
Hypnotic medications: risks and benefits
Alternatives to hypnotics
Recognizing adverse Effects - Substance Use Disorders
Neurochemistry of addiction & habit development
Drugs of abuse and interaction with psychiatric medications
Caffeine
Nicotine
Marijuana (discussion of medical marijuana, cost vs. benefit) (discussion of medical marijuana, cost vs. benefit)
Others
Challenging the old thinking about when to prescribe for clients with dual diagnosis-what we now know
Medication assisted treatments for addictions
Alcohol\sNicotine
Cannabis\sOpiates
Behavioral addictions- what we know works
Eating Disorders
Anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder
Weight gain from psychotropic medications
Recognizing medical emergencies
Standard of care for lab work
Integrating psychotherapy with psychopharmacology
Special Populations: Geriatric
Specialized guidelines for geriatric clients
Discussion of dementia treatment
Antipsychotic controversy
Special Populations: Women
Hormonal issues in mood disorders & anxiety
Pregnancy and breastfeeding-\sPresenting the choices
Resources for you and your clients
The dangerous, the concerning, and the possibly good options for psychopharmacology
Menopause- current knowledge and agents
Treating Clients with Comorbid Chronic Pain
Neurochemistry implications- why it’s critical to intervene
When psychopharmacology can help
Other alternative interventions
Limitations of The Research & Potential Risks
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