Psychopharmacology - Module 1: Overview of Childhood Disorders
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For professionals seeking background on childhood medication discussions, this multidisciplinary recording examines medication categories, target symptoms, assessment, monitoring and family concerns alongside behavioral and educational care. The catalogue credits Ronald T. Brown, Deborah P. Coehlo and Lyre C. Fribourg.
Catalogue presenter credits: Ronald T. Brown, Deborah P. Coehlo, Lyre C. Fribourg.
Certificate of Completion. This session does not offer BACB continuing education (CE) credit.
The panel surveys antidepressants, anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder, ADHD medication families and mood-related medications. It also explains pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics and half-life as part of the recorded overview.
The discussion follows information across home, school and healthcare settings and considers family beliefs and barriers to taking prescribed medication. Detailed case studies are deferred to later modules, and the session does not provide a worked medication-change tracking log.
What does this recording cover?
- Internalizing, externalizing and neurodevelopmental groupings organize the discussion of medication classes and target symptoms.
- The panel introduces antidepressant, ADHD and mood-related medication categories.
- Pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics and half-life frame the explanation of medication movement and response.
- Assessment and monitoring draw on reports from children, families, teachers and other settings.
- Family concerns, dosing inconvenience and pill-swallowing difficulties feature in the discussion of adherence.
Recording context: The recording date is not supplied. Research, professional requirements and examples reflect the discussion at the time of delivery.
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Meet the Presenters
Dr. Ronald Brown, a noted expert on the topic of ADHD has served as the Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic (Health Affairs) at the University of North Texas System.
Dr. Brown completed his Ph.D. from Georgia State University and has been the past President of the Society of Pediatric Psychology and the Association of Psychologists of Academic Health Centers.
He is a board-certified clinical health psychologist and has been an active clinician, teacher, advocate and investigator. He served as a member of the Behavioral Medicine study section of the NIH and chaired several special panels at NIH. He currently serves as the Editor of Professional Psychology: Research and Practice.
Dr. Ronald Brown’s area of specialization includes behavioral sciences, pediatric psychology, attention deficit disorders, neuropsychology, psychopharmacology, learning disabilities and psychosocial oncology.
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.
Dr. Lyre Fribourg is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist and a Board-Certified Behavior Analyst. She balances her work schedule between her private practice in Los Angeles, California and a staff psychologist position at University of California, Los Angeles in the Developmental Behavioral Pediatrics clinic. She enjoys working in an interdisciplinary team and values the collaboration with physicians when it comes to diagnosing and treating children. She leads a parent group for newly diagnosed families of children with autism and provides group parenting classes to families of young children. For more than 25 years, Dr. Fribourg has worked with children with neurodevelopmental disorders, and their families in homes, schools and communities. Additionally, she has shown her commitment to educating other professionals in the field through professional development workshops about behavior management in schools and presenting at annual conventions for behavior analysts. Outside of her practice, she loves spending time with her husband and children, who give her yet another perspective on the challenges that come with parenting children.
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