By Sophia Dziegielewski PhD LCSW, George A. Jacinto PhD LCSW
Univ. of principal Florida, Orlando. offers social employees with a simple realizing and dealing wisdom of psychotropic medicines, together with drugs use and misuse. Teaches tips on how to tailor remedy for consumers taking definite drugs, and the way to spot uncomfortable side effects and hostile reactions to psychotropics.
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John was immediately placed on an antidepressant medication. After one week in the hospital he reported that he was feeling better, and it was obvious to all who were treating him that his depression was indeed lifting. The social worker was not convinced. She remained concerned that John still had many personal issues regarding his marriage and family that remained problematic. He had made little progress in exploring alternate problem-solving strategies for handling the rejection and abandonment if his wife refused to continue the marriage.
Second, it can help scientists to better understand mental illness and the etiology of mental and medical conditions. Medications are remarkable in that they have allowed us to cure some diseases, reduce suffering, and markedly improve the quality of life for individuals, but only when they are used correctly (Simonson, 1994). PRESCRIPTION MEDICATIONS When a client is prescribed a medication there are often two names listed. Example: Prozac (flouxetine hydrochloride) In this case the first name listed (Prozac), which represents a popular antidepressive medication, is the brand name of the medication.
Recently, as many as 16 different serotonin receptor sites in various parts of the brain have been identified, all modulating different basic drives and emotions (Kotulak, 1997). 1 for a description of several classic neurotransmitters and their primary relationships to symptomology. These chemical messengers and their receptor targets regulate basic feelings and emotions and are naturally designed to work together. We used to believe that only one neurochemical was needed to enhance the neurotransmission, but we now know that more than one neurotransmitter is involved in the response-action pattern, a process referred to as colocalization (Lehne & Scott, 1996).
