Child & Adolescent Medication Management
At CFIC, we strive to offer complete mental health care to treat the entire person and work toward positive change.
At times, in addition to therapy, prescribing medication can reduce symptoms and prevent relapse of unwanted symptoms and conditions, including anxiety, depression, and more. Here at CFIC, we aim to support our children and families by remaining current on evolving and innovative care, including psychotropic medications and medication management – parallelled with the use of psychotherapy and counseling.
Our Center offers experienced and skilled nurse practitioners who assess, diagnose, and treat children and adolescents with psychiatric disorders or the potential for such disorders using their full scope of therapeutic skills, including prescribing medications. We believe in a collaborative approach, working together to develop a personalized treatment plan. This teamwork is key to helping your child achieve their goal of reduced symptoms and improved quality of life.
What is medication management?
Medication management refers to the use of prescription medications for mental health conditions. Medications improve symptoms and are used alone or in conjunction with psychotherapy. Our experienced integrative psychiatric nurse practitioners help patients find lasting relief from their mental health symptoms and prescribes medications when appropriate.
Am I a candidate for medication management?
The Center for Innovative Care has licensed integrative psychiatric nurse practitioners to help determine if you are a candidate for medication management after your diagnostic psychiatric evaluation. Medication is not a one-size-fits-all arrangement and treats many mental health conditions, including:
Anxiety disorders in children are outsized fears or worries that are hard to control. These worries disrupt children's ability to take part in play, school, or social activities. Diagnoses include social anxiety, generalized anxiety, and obsessive-compulsive disorders.
Compared with most children of the same age, children with ADHD have trouble with paying attention, acting on impulse, being too active, hyperactivity, or some mix of these problems.
Autism spectrum disorder is a neurological condition that appears in early childhood, often before age 3. How severe ASD is varies. However, children with this disorder have trouble talking with and connecting with others.
Eating disorders are defined as an unhealthy focus on an ideal body type, disordered thinking about weight and weight loss, and unsafe eating and dieting habits. Eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge-eating disorder can result in not being able to act emotionally and socially. And they can cause life-threatening physical complications.
Depression is lasting feelings of sadness, low or irritable mood, and loss of interest in typical activities. These get in the way of a child being able to do well in school and interact with others. Bipolar disorder results in big mood swings between depression and extreme emotional or behavioral highs. These highs can cause risky or unsafe actions.
PTSD is long-term emotional upset, worry, scary memories, nightmares, and acting out. This is in response to violence, abuse, injury, or other traumas a child has had or come into contact with.
Schizophrenia is a disorder in perceptions and thoughts. Schizophrenia causes a person to lose touch with reality, called psychosis. It most often starts in the late teens through the 20s. Schizophrenia can cause a person to see or hear things that aren't there, called hallucinations. It also can cause odd thoughts and behaviors.
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The Center for Innovative Care is a private Counseling and Research Center that specializes in comprehensive Psychological Treatment and Research.
