Assignment: Family Therapy Course
Write a reaction paper that addresses the following areas:
Examine some of the pharmacodynamics associated with medicating children. Consider issues of physiologic, developmental, pharmacokinetics in your reflection.
• Which SSRIs have been approved for use with children and/or adolescents?
• What other medications have been approved for children and adolescents? List the associated approved age ranges.
• What are the most important advocacy questions to ask your client and their caregiver regarding a child on psychotropic medication?
Imagine yourself as a Family Therapist working with a child and his/her family who is being treated for an attention disorder. Reflect and respond to the following:
• What are the symptoms being medicated?
• Which drugs are supposed to treat which symptoms?
• Has there been an improvement in the targeted symptoms since the child started taking the drug(s)?
• If not, why continue the child on the drug(s)?
Support your assignment with at least two scholarly resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources, including older articles, may be included.
Length: 3 pages, not including title and reference pages.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
1. The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also Include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.