Homework: Psychopharmacology
Length: 8 to 10 pages.
Case Study I: Sample Case Study Template
A case study presentation is a way of communicating information to your colleagues. Often a case presentation highlights an unusual presentation, feature, condition, complication, or intervention. Case reports can describe important and insightful information that helps to expand knowledge and may generate research ideas. For this homework, you will complete one case presentation, each on a patient case selected from the literature or a real case from a clinical setting. The case should be typical, for example, common depression or anxiety. Select a case that you feel is interesting and contributed to your learning. Use the template provided below to help guide your paper. Case workup is designed to provide students opportunity to apply knowledge related to a particular case and management of all items related to and including psychopharmacologic treatment. This is an individual homework. Feel free to choose a different stage of life, by age range, with common Psychiatric Mental Health (PMH) symptoms, and management strategies. The stages are as follows: adult, between ages 18-65.
The following components must be provided: diagnosis, developmental stage, methods used to define diagnosis and rationale; anticipation of treatment course. Briefly describe the clinical presentation, appropriate testing (both focused physical exams as appropriate, and Psychiatric Diagnostic Evaluation findings and appropriate work-ups of clinical symptoms). Include subsequent co-morbidities, if any and discuss the treatment plan for a common PMH disorder.
Case Study II: Psychopharmacology Treatment Algorithm
Using your learning experience from your clinical experience, preceptor input and evidence-based literature, develop a pharmacology treatment Algorithm of a patient with a DSM diagnosis. You can use your readings to change and add to your work, but it must be an original and not a copy of an algorithm from someone else. This is an algorithm developed specifically for this client to demonstrate your critical thinking throughout the treatment planning. The following areas must be covered in the homework.
1. Overview of your initial patient clinical assessment including: Chief compliant, medical history, psychiatric history, psychosocial, mental status examination.
2. Using the information from the assessment, reading materials and textbook, develop an evidence-based algorithm for four treatment stages, tailored to this individual. The information must include interview questions needed to guide decision-making at the different stages, length of treatment in trial/initiation period, dosage titration schedule and duration of time the client should stay on the medication, factors that might influence the effectiveness of the medications, necessary labs and test, and patient education. Include pertinent side effects profiles that would warrant a change in the medication being prescribed and a brief reasoning for your decisions.
Format your homework according to the give formatting requirements:
1. The answer must be double spaced, typed, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the homework, the course title, the student's name, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also include a reference page. The references and Citations should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.