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The client is an 8-year-old African American male who arrives at the ER with his mother. He is exhibiting signs of depression.

Alert & oriented X 3, speech clear, coherent, goal directed, spontaneous. Self-reported mood is “sad”. Affect somewhat blunted, but child smiled appropriately at various points throughout the clinical interview. He denies visual or auditory hallucinations. No delusional or paranoid thought processes noted. Judgment and insight appear to be age-appropriate. He is not endorsing active suicidal ideation, but does admit that he often thinks about himself being dead and what it would be like to be dead.

• Assess patient factors and history to develop personalized plans of antidepressant therapy across the lifespan
• Analyze factors that influence pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic processes in pediatric, adult, and geriatric patients requiring antidepressant therapy
• Synthesize knowledge of providing care to pediatric, adult, and geriatric patients presenting for antidepressant therapy
• Analyze ethical and legal implications related to prescribing antidepressant therapy to patients across the lifespan