Course Code: REL-BHC-0-PMAOP
Hours: 1.5
Type: Online Course
Content Expiration Date: 12/31/2025
Learning Objectives:
Summarize how you can support the individuals you serve with their medication regimen.
List the major types of psychiatric medications.
Describe potential side effects of psychiatric medications.
Outline:
Section 1: Introduction
About This Course
Learning Objectives
Section 2: Medications and Mental Illness
Meet Margot
Medications for Psychiatric Disorders
Why Do I Need to Know This?
Questions to Ask About Medications
Types of Psychiatric Medications
Reducing Errors
Safety Checks
What if There’s a Mistake?
Monitoring Clients
Urgent Signs
Stopping Medications
Multiple Medications
Medications and Pregnancy
Review
Summary
Section 3: Antipsychotic and Mood Stabilizer Medications
Psychosis
Antipsychotic Medications
Side Effects of Antipsychotics
Serious Side Effects
Quick Check
Mood Stabilizers
Review
Summary
Section 4: Medications that Treat Depression, Anxiety, and ADHD
Signs of Depression
Antidepressants
Urgent Signs
Makeeda is Worried
Antianxiety Medications
Medications Used to Treat ADHD
Review
Summary
Section 5: Conclusion
Summary
Course Contributors
Resources
References
Congratulations!
Instructor: Monique Kahn, Psy.D.
Monique Kahn, Psy.D. received her doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology from Nova Southeastern University in Florida. She completed a pre-doctoral internship at Spokane Mental Health in Washington, which included specialty rotations in behavioral medicine and time-limited psychotherapies. She is licensed as a psychologist in Maine, where she was in private practice for 14 years, providing services to adult clients with varied presenting issues, but with particular emphasis on the treatment of anxiety disorders, the relationship between psychosocial stress and illness, insomnia, and coping with chronic illness. She has taught in the undergraduate psychology program at Husson University in Maine. In addition, she has worked as a content writer and psychology subject matter expert for several major educational publishing firms. She joined Relias as a clinical content writer and subject matter expert in 2016.
Subject Matter Expert: John Cahill, MD, PhD
Dr. Cahill has experience in community psychiatry across both the UK and US healthcare systems. He specializes in building Learning Health Systems for early intervention and 'safety net' behavioral health services - towards better-value, person-centered, integrated care for individuals with severe mental illness and co-occurring substance use disorders. After completing medical school in the UK, Dr. Cahill undertook both psychiatry residency and advanced clinical research fellowships at Yale, with a focus on knowledge translation, from the community to the lab, and vice versa, particularly in the study and management of psychotic disorders and their complex interaction with cannabinoids. He is board-certified in Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine. His work is founded on respect for the patient and caregiver experience, addressing the whole person, judicious prescribing practices and embracing a complex adaptive system perspective. His research interests involve using unifying principles and translational approaches to develop novel biomarkers, treatments, technologies, clinical guidelines and resident curricula for the care of psychotic disorders. He is faculty of both Yale School of Medicine and Yale School of Nursing.
Target Audience:
The target audience for this course is: Direct Support Professionals (DSP); in the following settings: Behavioral Health: Community Services.
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Course Delivery Method and Format
Asynchronous Distance Learning with interactivity which includes quizzes with questions/answers, and posttests.