Psychotropic Medications and Side Effects
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Deborah P. Coehlo's recorded teaching introduces psychotropic medications in children's emotional and behavioral care. She explores medication beliefs, uses a ferryboat analogy for neurotransmission, and discusses how medications move through the body, side effects, interactions and follow-up.
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Coehlo begins with beliefs and stigma surrounding mental health medication, then considers biological, family and environmental influences. Her historical overview introduces antipsychotics, mood stabilizers and antidepressants before turning to neurons and neurotransmitters.
The session follows absorption, distribution, metabolism and elimination, then distinguishes desired effects from common and unexpected side effects. Coehlo closes by discussing follow-up and concurrent child and family counseling, illustrated through her reported case experience.
What does this recording cover?
- Beliefs, stigma and biological/environmental context
- Medication-class history and the ferryboat neurotransmission analogy
- Absorption, distribution, metabolism and elimination
- Desired effects, unexpected side effects and interactions
- Follow-up and concurrent child and family counseling
Recording context: This recording provides background on medication discussions in children’s care. The recording date is not supplied.
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Meet the Presenter
Dr. Debbie Coehlo is a certified Pediatric Nurse Practitioner and Pediatric Mental Health Specialist with a Doctoral Degree in Family Sciences and Human Development. She is the Founder and Director of Juniper Pediatrics, a clinic modeled after John F Kennedy’s multidisciplinary system of care. Using a holistic, integrated care model, Juniper provides counseling, medication management and family therapy for children with ASD, ADHD and other childhood mental health disorders.
Dr. Coehlo completed her Master’s in Nursing with a specialty in parent- child nursing. She spent 10 years working at the Child Development Center at the University of Washington in the Genetics Clinic and Multidisciplinary Clinic. In 1999, she complete her Doctorate degree in Human Development and Family Studies.
She continues to teach at the undergraduate and graduate level and had pursued research in the area of social networking, transitioning to out of home care for families, and child development.
Dr. Coehlo is a co- editor for the 4th and 5th edition of Family Health Nursing (F.A. Dais, 2010/2013) and has published several journal articles in the areas of families choosing residential care, families in transition, family health nursing, and care of children with special health care needs.
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