Full Course Description
Psychopharmacology Intensive Online Course: Everything the Non-Prescriber Needs to Know
Program Information
Objectives
- Analyze the historical antecedents of psychopharmacological products and their relation to today’s psychotropic medications.
- Identify the mechanism of action of today’s psychotropic medications and how it relates to your clients.
- Breakdown the process of medication selection and receptor activation/blocking for specific disorders.
- Communicate the side effects including nutritional, cognitive, sexual, and behavioral associated with psychotropic medications.
- Communicate options for clients including medications and/or psychotherapy.
- Explain how medications are chosen for mood disorders and specific patient characteristics.
- Compile medication treatment options for your clients with ADHD.
- Determine medication management strategies for clients with sleep disorders.
- Identify medications effective for your clients with eating disorders.
- Determine how to effectively incorporate medication assisted treatments into an overall care plan for substance use disorders.
- Determine the unique medication considerations for geriatric clients.
- Discriminate between acute and chronic pain to recommend best methods of treatment.
- Analyze future trends, including preventing side effects vs. managing side effects.
- Establish ethical issues specifically relating to the child and adolescent population as it relates to clinical psychopharmacology.
- Apply traditional standards (autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, confidentiality, veracity) of ethical behavior to issues peculiar to the practice of clinical psychopharmacology.
- Explore specific ethical issues and their resolve to the everyday practice of clinical psychopharmacology.
- Explain the role of prescriber as both patient advocate and protector.
- Evaluate research and its impact on future prescribing and patient care.
Outline
- Module One
- Psychopharmacology
- Historical Antecedents of Modern Psychopharmacology
- Diagnostic Issues
- Clarification of Terms
- Drug Metabolism Concepts: Pharmacokinetics & Pharmacodynamics
- Drug Mechanism of Action
- Placebo & Nocebo
- Pharmacotherapy Vs. Psychotherapy
- Understanding Receptors
- Specific Receptors & Their Action
- Prescribe Based on Receptor Action
- Masking: Psychological Problems Disguising
- Medical Disorders
- Differential Disorders & Diagnostic Workup
- Top 10 Drug Medical Emergencies
- Depressive Disorders
- The Terminal Button & Neuronal Health
- Biogenic Amine, Cortisol, Down-Regulation, & Neurotropic
- Hypotheses
- Neurochemistry of Depression
- Types of Anti-Depressants
- Preventing Side Effects
- Treatment Resistant Depression and Drug Combinations
- Tardive Dysphoria: Real or Imagined?
- The Role of Nutrition & Mental Health
- Monoaminergic Rich Foods
- Achetylcholinergic Rich Foods
- Module Two
- Review of Anti-Depressants
- Create the Perfect Anti-Depressant
- Anxiety Disorders & Obsessive Compulsive Disorders & Trauma Related Disorders
- Gad, Panic Disorders, Phobias
- OCD
- PTSD
- Physiological Interventions
- Anti-Anxiety Medications
- Anti-Depressants
- Non-Pharmacologic Options
- Benzodiazepines: Risks and Benefits
- Preventing Side Effects
- Psychotic Disorders/Schizophrenia
- Neurochemistry of Psychosis and Schizophrenia
- Antipsychotic Medications:
- First Generation (Typical)
- Second Generation (Atypical)
- Managing Side Effects
- Extrapyramidal Symptoms and TD
- Metabolic Problems
- Recognizing Hyperprolactinemia - And Why You Need to Know
- Use of Atypical Antipsychotics for Multiple Disorders
- Pregnancy and Psychotic Disorders
- Bipolar Disorders
- Neurochemistry
- The Bipolar Spectrum
- Mood Stabilizers
- Lithium
- Anti-Convulsants & Neuromodulators
- Effective Strategies for Improving Outcomes for Clients
- Module Three
- Attentional Disorders
- Differential Diagnosis
- Neurochemistry of ADHD
- Treatment Controversies
- Substance Abuse and ADHD
- Stimulant Medications
- Non-Stimulant Options
- Preventing Side Effects
- Substance Abuse Disorders
- Neurochemistry of Addiction
- Negative Reinforcement & Creation of Habits
- Alcohol
- Caffeine
- Nicotine
- Cannabis
- Opiates
- PCP & Ketamine
- MDMA (Ecstasy)
- Energy Vs. Chill Drinks
- Over-The-Counter & Herbal
- Psychopharmacology
- Addiction Treatments
- Behavioral Addictions
- Treating Client Pain
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- Acute Vs. Chronic Pain
- Advances in Psychopharmacology
- Alternatives to Psychopharmacology
- Pain Vs. Depression: Which Comes First?
- Co-Morbid Pain
- Alternatives
- Special Population
- Specialized Guidelines For Geriatric Patients
- Dementia Treatment
- Pregnancy Guidelines
- Slow Vs. Rapid Metabolizers (Genetic Polymorphisms)
- Ethics & Psychopharmacology
- High-Risk Pharmacology & Psychopharmacology
- Off-Label Use of Medications
- Prescribing for Children
- Elective Psychopharmacology
- Marketing of Mental Illness
- Polypharmacy
- Informed Vs. Uninformed Consent
- Patient & Third Party Pressures
- Professional Boundaries
- Ethics Associated with Medical
- Errors
- Role of Placebo
Copyright :
07/17/2017