Psychotropic Medications & Co-occurring in Youth prepares mental health behavioral aides to play their real role around medication — observing, supporting, and reporting — without stepping into prescribing or dosing. It explains why a child may take psychotropic medication as part of treatment and introduces, at a recognition level, the common classes: stimulants, antidepressants (including the youth suicide-risk warning), and antipsychotics and mood stabilizers. The course covers the common side effects to notice and, critically, the serious ones that require same-day reporting — including tardive dyskinesia, the involuntary, repetitive movements linked to some antipsychotic medications that this training is required to name. Aides learn to observe and report accurately, follow medication-safety rules (never adjust doses, store securely, document per policy, protect privacy), and recognize co-occurring mental illness and substance use in youth: notice, support, report, and act on safety — never investigate, confront, or treat. This module covers the co-occurring disorders and the psychotropic medications/side-effects topics of the pre-service training under Minn. Stat. 245I.05, subd. 3(c)(4) and 3(c)(5), and names tardive dyskinesia as required by subd. 5.
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