Supporting Clients Taking Psychotropics in the Workplace

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Delivery: Synchronous Virtual Classroom via Zoom

Many clients with a behavioral health diagnosis desire to be productive and, as a result, want to be gainfully employed. While psychopharmacology can be beneficial for many people, these medications come with challenges for employed clients. Unwanted side-effects, cognitive interference and sleep disruption are just a few of the concerns. This workshop will include discussion of these issues and ways to minimize these challenges to help clients be successful in the workplace.

Learning Objectives:

At the conclusion of this session participants will be able to:

• Summarize the focus of psychopharmacology in treating cognition.
• Summarize methods by which clients, therapists and prescribers can minimize side-effects to allow for more effective functioning in the workshop.
• Compare receptor profiles within a given medication class and how differences in these profiles can affect employment goals.
• Discuss how to encourage clients to communicate with the prescriber about the effects of medications on the clients’ employment goals

This course is appropriate for all levels of practitioners.

Instructor

Dr. Craig Strickland graduated from Bryn Mawr College with a Doctorate in Psychology and a focus on experimental research and neuroscience. Past positions include a faculty position at the Medical College of Pennsylvania and affiliate faculty positions at Widener University and Springfield College. He currently has guest lecturer privileges at the Bryn Mawr College Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research, the Rutgers School of Social Work; as well as, an affiliate professor position at Thomas Jefferson University, East Fall Campus in the Community and Trauma Counseling program. Dr. Strickland is the owner of Biobehavioral Education and Consultation, LLC.

Cost | CEUs

Program Cost: $70

CEUs: 3