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Homework: Study Guide for Medication Treatment Schizophrenia Spectrum and other Psychosis Disorders

Schizophrenia- Select your drug of choice- Therapy for Patients with Schizophrenia

To Prepare for this Homework:

1. Review this Learning Resources, including the Medication Resources indicated for this week.

2. Reflect on the psychopharmacologic treatments you might recommend for treatment of patients with Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders.

3. Research your assigned psychotropic medication agent using the Walden Library. Then, develop an organizational scheme for the important information about the medication.

4. Review Learning Resource: Utah State University. (n.d.). Creating study guides.

Task

Create a study guide for your assigned psychotropic medication agents. Your study guide should be in the form of an outline with references, and you should incorporate visual elements such as concept maps, charts, diagrams, images, color coding, mnemonics, and/or flashcards. Be creative! It should not be in the format of an APA paper. Your guide should be informed by the FDA-approved and Evidenced-Based, Clinical Practice Guidelines Research but also supported by at least three other scholarly resources.

Areas of importance you should address, but are not limited to, are:

1. Title page

2. Description of the Psychopharmacological medication agent including brand and generic names and appropriate FDA indication uses

3. Any supporting, valid and reliable research for non-FDA uses

4. Drug classification

5. The medication mechanism of action

6. The medication pharmacokinetics

7. The medication pharmacodynamics

8. Mechanism of Action

9. Appropriate dosing, administration route, and any considerations for dosing alterations

10. Considerations of use and dosing in specific specialty populations to consider children, adolescents, elderly, pregnancy, suicidal behaviors, etc.

11. Definition of Half-life, why half-life is important, and the half-life for your assigned medication

12. Side effects/adverse reaction potentials

13. Contraindications for use including significant drug to drug interactions

14. Overdose Considerations

15. Diagnostics and labs monitoring

16. Comorbidities considerations

17. Legal and ethical considerations

18. Pertinent patient education considerations

19. Reference Page.