Pharmacotherapy Facts for the Helping Professional: What You Really Need to Know | In-Person | Friday, April 25, 2025 | 9:00 am to 12:00 pm | Presented by Elizabeth Young, PharmD, LPC, NCC. EVENT FLYER
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FREE: 3 IDFPR CEU for LSW/LCSW, LPC/LCPC, Psychologists and IAODAPCA (pending)
SUMMARY
Helping professionals are often aware of the psychiatric medications their clients are receiving. Psychiatric medication therapy can be complex. Knowledge and skills related to major drug classes, medication use assessment, and effective communication of concerns to prescribers are critical contributions helping professionals can make to achieve the best outcomes from mental health and medication therapy for their clients. This three-part workshop will empower participants to do all three.
The goals of this workshop are to provide participants with the following:
- A current and updated review of major psychiatric medication classes is presented including antidepressants, antianxiety medications, medications for mood disorders, antipsychotics, and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.
- Participants receive clinical pearls for psychiatric medications to enable them to more easily identify and act on potential medication misadventures arising in practice.
- Participants are provided a structure for how to assess the most critical psychiatric medication use issues. Participants actively role-play outreach to prescribers to learn how to effectively communicate their concerns related to medication use in their clients.
OBJECTIVES
At the end of this workshop participants will be able to
- provide basic information for the major classes of psychiatric medications,
- assess client medication use to identify common potential medication use issues, and
- communicate with prescribers when concerned with medication-related problems experienced by their clients.
PRESENTER
Dr. Elizabeth Young, PharmD, LPC, NCC, has been a practicing clinical pharmacist for more than 20 years. She currently also practices as a clinical mental health counselor at Owens & Associates Counseling & Therapy Center in their Lake in the Hills and Schaumburg offices.
Direct patient care in psychiatric pharmacotherapy has been a focus of Dr. Young’s clinical pharmacy practice for many years in community, health systems (including VA health systems), and managed care environments. She also possesses extensive experience teaching pharmacotherapy-related topics to students, residents, and healthcare providers in most practice settings as well as serving as a clinician and faculty member at several universities, including the University of Illinois Chicago College of Pharmacy and Medicine.
Additionally, Dr. Young is a certified Health and Wellness Coach and has worked with medical practices as a consultant to address medication-related goals for their patients.
