Assignment: Patient Education for Children and Adolescents

Patient education is an effective tool in supporting compliance and treatment for a diagnosis. It is important to consider effective ways to educate patients and their families about a diagnosis—such as coaching, brochures, or videos—and to recognize that the efficacy of any materials may differ based on the needs and learning preferences of a particular patient. Because patients or their families may be overwhelmed with a new diagnosis, it is important that materials provided by the practitioner clearly outline the information that patients need to know.



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For this Assignment, you will pretend that you are a contributing writer to a health blog. You are tasked with explaining important information about an assigned mental health disorder in language appropriate for child/adolescent patients and/or their caregivers.

To Prepare

• Assigned Disorder for this assignment is ANXIETY DISORDER
• Research:
• signs and symptoms for your diagnosis,
• pharmacological treatments,
• nonpharmacological treatments,
• and appropriate community resources and referrals
• Attached PDFs of the peered reviewed articles or resources used as references