Select a diagnosis (Major Depression Disorder) and a medication (TCA) – that is used to treat someone with that diagnosis.
Conduct a literature based and internet based search to gather some basic information on the medication.
First, provide a detailed descriiption of the medication that you have selected.
What group or groups of clients would be a candidate for this particular medication?
Why?
How does the medicine work (action in the brain)? See the following web site to
help you out:
http://thebrain.mcgill.ca/
What are some of the benefits of the drug? Risks? Side effects? Dosage?
When would the medication be indicated for a particular client or group of clients?
Contraindicated?
In the second part of the paper, describe the medication in a fashion that would be understandable to an individual with a psychotic disorder and/or the caregiver for such individual. Prepare an informational descriiption that you could use to teach a client or group of clients about this particular medication. Attend to language and simplicity of presentation. As you write, consider what questions a client might ask (i.e. what that client might need or want to know).
In a concluding section, reflect on the challenges involved in learning about the particular medication that you select so that you would in turn be able to educate your client(s) effectively.
