Assignment 1: Prescribing for Children and Adolescents Off-label prescribing is when a physician gives you a drug that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved to treat a condition different than your condition. This practice is legal and common. In fact, one in five prescriptions written today are for off-label use. —Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Photo Credit: Getty Images/Ingram Publishing Psychotropic drugs are commonly used for children and adolescents to treat mental health disorders, yet many of these drugs are not FDA approved for use in these populations. Thus, their use is considered “off-label,” and it is often up to the best judgment of the prescribing clinician. As a PMHNP, you will need to apply the best available information and research on pharmacological treatments for children in order to safely and effectively treat child and adolescent patients. Sometimes this will come in the form of formal studies and approvals for drugs in children. Other times you may need to extrapolate from research or treatment guidelines on drugs in adults. Each individual patient case will need to be considered independently and each treatment considered from a risk assessment standpoint. What psychotherapeutic approach might be indicated as an initial treatment? What are the potential side effects of a particular drug? For this Assignment, you consider these questions and others as you explore FDA-approved (“on label”) pharmacological treatments, non-FDA-approved (“off-label”) pharmacological treatments, and nonpharmacological treatments for disorders in children and adolescents. Reference: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. (2015). Off-label drugs: What you need to know. https://www.ahrq.gov/patients-consumers/patient-in... To Prepare Your Instructor will assign a specific disorder for you to research for this Assignment. Use the Walden library to research evidence-based treatments for your assigned disorder in children and adolescents. You will need to recommend one FDA-approved drug, one off-label drug, and one nonpharmacological intervention for treating this disorder in children and adolescents. The Assignment (1.5-2 pages) Recommend one FDA-approved drug, one off-label drug, and one nonpharmacological intervention for treating your assigned disorder in children and adolescents. Explain the risk assessment you would use to inform your treatment decision making. What are the risks and benefits of the FDA-approved medicine? What are the risks and benefits of the off-label drug? Explain whether clinical practice guidelines exist for this disorder and, if so, use them to justify your recommendations. If not, explain what information you would need to take into consideration. Support your reasoning with at least three scholarly resources, one each on the FDA-approved drug, the off-label, and a non-medication intervention for the disorder. Attach the PDFs of your sources.

Summarize the passage provided using a well-organized paragraph structure.IntroductionSummary is a vital skill that you will use often as you progress through your doctoral program. Summarizing a passage provides an opportunity for you to review the basics of academic writing, organization, and sentence structure.Demonstration of ProficiencyBy successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the course competencies through the following assessment scoring guide criteria:Competency 1: Address assessment purpose in a well-organized text, incorporating appropriate evidence and tone in grammatically sound sentences.Summarize a passage with appropriate structure as shown in the MEAL Plan.Produce text with minimal grammar, usage, spelling, and mechanical errors.Employ appropriate scholarly voice in written work.InstructionsNote: The assessments in this course must be completed in the order presented; subsequent assessments should be built on both your earlier work and your instructor’s feedback on earlier assessments. If you choose to submit assessments prematurely, without considering and integrating your instructor’s feedback, your assessment may be returned ungraded, resulting in your loss of an assessment attempt.Review the passage provided in Assessment 2 Passage [PDF], and summarize it into your own words. Use the MEAL Plan. Label the parts of the paragraph appropriately by placing the letters (M, E, A, L) before the respective parts. The summary should be in your own words and should not include quotes. The summary should capture the key ideas presented in the original text, focusing less on the details. This skill will be important for you when you create your project charter, which must be written professionally, yet succinctly.Your summary will be graded using the following scoring guide criteria:Summarize a passage with appropriate structure as shown in the MEAL Plan.Produce text with minimal grammar, usage, spelling, and mechanical errors.Write using an appropriate scholarly tone in a succinct and professional manner

Choose a medical condition from the gastrointestinal or genitourinary systems and explain the pathophysiology changes that may occur. What patient education would need to be included related to this disorder? Make sure that you select a different medical condition than your peers. Include the name of the medical condition in the subject line so that the medical condition can be followed. Include your references in APA style. Please write 150-200 words with 2 citations. Please include 2 different references for the 2 citations.