Mood disorders
What each mood disorders question is really asking, how to structure the answer, and where the marks are likely to sit.
Write a four-page treatment plan for an adult or older adult client with a depressive disorder from your practicum, covering HPI and clinical impression, psychopharmacologic and psychotherapy recommendations with therapeutic endpoints, medical management, community resources and follow-up.
Three decisions that are diagnosis, then therapy, then medication — the ordering is the argument, and Decision One is where the case is actually won.
Herzing NU 670 Unit 3 DQ 1: mood stabilizers in bipolar
Mood disorders
Discuss conventional mood stabilizers in bipolar depression, list at least two FDA-approved medications with risks and benefits, identify preferred agents in geriatric and paediatric populations, and discuss topiramate and gabapentin including their psychiatric uses, monitoring and side effects.
Bipolar vs Major Depression: Treatment Differences
Mood disorders
A planning guide for a 200-word answer on how bipolar disorder and major depressive disorder are treated differently. At that length the whole task is deciding what to leave out, and there is one point that must survive the cut.
Find a news story from the past six to twelve months on depressive disorders, bipolar disorder, suicide or self-injury, then compare it against the article supplied with the assignment, following the media paper guidelines.