In Module 2, you’ll begin to look at when you should use certain medications and how these medications are thought to work. This will allow you to explain to clients WHY they should or shouldn’t be taking certain medications.
Tom Smith – Everything Psychopharmacology
The use of medications to improve mental health is not only controversial, it’s confusing. You must be up-to-date as a clinician. However, you must also be able take the information and share it with your client.
To make matters worse, psychopharmacology trainings can be difficult to follow and complex.
It’s time for a change…
Join expert Tom SmithP.D., FASCP. LMHC. NCP. BCCP. This unique online course will give you the best.-To-Keep up-to-date with psychotropic medication information using an engaging style that keeps your attention. Together, you’ll walk step-By-step through the latest medication trends for depression, bipolar, anxiety, schizophrenia, ADHD, and Alzheimer’s disease.
Three engaging modules will give you the tools and strategies that you need.
- Improve clients’ understanding of their mental illness and how medication aids recovery
- Choose the appropriate medication for each condition and age group
- Increase client compliance with medications
- Help clients deal with unpleasant side effects
- You can do so much more!
Only when used correctly, psychiatric medications can be effective. Register Tom Smith, P.D.-By-step modules where you’ll discover how medications can help manage depression, bipolar, anxiety, schizophrenia, ADHD, and Alzheimer’s disease, You can also tell your clients what to expect from each medication, and how you can help them. increase your client’s compliance.
Start your journey to psychopharmacology by gaining a solid understanding of the science behind the clinical issues that you encounter every day in your practice.
Module 1:
- What was psychopharmacology? “born”
- Psychopharmacology: What enzymes do and why it is important
- How the body makes it
- Amphetamines: When and Why?
- Dopamine’s importance and what symptoms occur when the levels are unstable
- How the body uses its homeostatic mechanisms in order to maintain neurotransmitters balanced
- The theory of antagonism and agonism
- The DSM-5 and medications
In Module 2, you’ll begin to look at when you should use certain medications and how these medications are thought to work. This will help you explain to your clients why they should take certain medications. This module includes a printable tool that you can use immediately to improve client compliance with medication.
Module 2 Highlights:
- What it means to be a drug addict “new on the market”
- Strategies to help your client avoid taking the wrong prescription
- Antidepressants: How do they work?
- What side effects might be possible when using cyclics?
In the final module, you’ll discover more about how certain medications are thought to work and how you can use them to achieve the best outcomes for your clients. You’ll then learn what’s new, old, what is coming to market, and why you need to keep these things in mind for your clients.
Module 3 will cover the following:
- How SSRIs are tolerated, and common side effects
- Common antidepressants and their uses
- Strategies for treating cancer “treatment resistant depression”
- Bipolar disorder can be treated with antianxiety medications, antidepressant medications and antipsychotic drugs.
- What you need know about mood stabilizers
- ADHD medications — what’s new, old, stimulants vs non-Stimulants and many other substances
- Drug treatments for Alzheimer’s disease
Would you like to be contacted? Tom Smith – Everything Psychopharmacology ?
Tom SmithDr., FASCP. LMHC. NCP. BCCP is a Doctor in Pharmacy, a Licensed Medical Health Counselor, a Nationally Certified Psychologist and a Board Certified Clinical Counselor. He holds academic appointments at the Saint Louis University School of Graduate Nursing and Butler School of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. Tom He is a Fellow of American Society of Consulting Pharmacists. Tom Has spoken on Bipolar Disorder and the DSM-5®, and psychopharmacology throughout the United States, He is the author of Psychopharmacology Made Simple: A Primer. He is also internationally published on the topic Aromatherapy.
Tom He maintains an active private practice in Martinsville Indiana where he works with clients from all ages.
Disclosures to Speakers:
Financial: Tom Smith He maintains a private practice. He will address. ‘off-label’ Uses of commercial products Mr. Smith Honorarium is given to a speaker for PESI, Inc.
Non-Financial: Tom Smith It is published nationally on the Americans with Disabilities Act. The author does not receive any compensation.
You can access all course videos online. Plus, use The CE21 Mobile™ app to access the course content on-the-Use your mobile device to go anywhere and whenever you wish.
Instantly connect with other professionals You can access the course materials via interactive message boards. You’ll be part of an exclusive community of hundreds of practitioners.
Completion of your CE online tests Earn up to 6.25 CE Hours! specific to your profession.
Here’s what you can expect in the new book Tom Smith – Everything Psychopharmacology
Course Features
- Lectures 1
- Quizzes 0
- Duration Lifetime access
- Skill level All levels
- Language English
- Students 170
- Assessments Yes