05 Dec Psychopharmacology and Bio-psychosocial Considerations for Social Workers
SOCIAL WORK
SOCW 6443 –Psychopharmacology and Bio-psychosocial Considerations for Social Workers
• Discussion 2: Ethical Dilemas for Mental Health Professionals
• Mental health professionals are charged with the task of assisting their clients’ efforts in obtaining the best care available to them. Often, this might mean making recommendations and referrals, teaming with other medical and mental health professionals, and developing and expanding competencies to meet the needs of their clients. Although there are strict limits to some mental health professional roles in reference to medication management, mental health professionals can serve a vital role in the process.
• For this Discussion, review the media titled “The Role of the Mental Health Professional in Psychopharmacological Intervention” and the Learning Resources. Explore the limits of practice in psychopharmacological intervention. Search your professional practice code of ethics and consider how ethical dilemmas that arise in the course of treatment might be mitigated. Check actual final video
• By Day 3 (Note!!! PLEASE WRITE OUT EACH QUESTION BEFORE PROVIDING A RESPONSE. Foolow the prompt please.!!! “Please I need an excellent paper”
• Post an explanation of how mental health professionals might prepare themselves to best work with medical professionals in the example you provided in this week’s Discussion 1 (include the need for using a signed release of information). Next, identify a potential ethical dilemma for mental health professionals related to your example and explain why this could be a dilemma. Then, provide the most effective strategy mental health professionals can use to mitigate the dilemma and justify your selection. Finally, as a future mental health professional, explain some of the concepts in the field of psychopharmacology in which you would like to explore the role further to gain more knowledge.
Be sure to support your responses with specific references to the resources. If you are using additional articles, be sure to provide full APA-formatted citations for your references both within the text and on the referencing section. PLEASE ALWAYS INCLUDE THE REQIRED TEXTBOOK as part of the references and if possible some of the REQUIRED READING if applicable. Please always start by referring to THE TEXTBOOK, below
REQUIRED TEXTBOOK
Psychopharmacology Demystified 2011
Author: Lichtblau, Leonard
ISBN-13:
ISBN-10:
Edition/Copyright: 2011
Publisher: Cengage Learning
REQUIRED
Handbook of Clinical Psychopharmacology for Therapists 8TH 17
Author: Preston, John D.
ISBN-13: 978-1-62625-927-0
ISBN-10: 1-62625-927-5
Edition/Copyright: 8TH 17
Publisher: New Harbinger Pub.(cc)
