 201 MEDICATION MANAGEMEN T CLIENT PRESENTATION 1. Failure to Take Medications (1) * A. The client has failed to consistently take his/her psychotropic medications as prescribed. B. A review of the client's medications indicates that he/she has not used the ex pected amounts. C. The client has become more regular in his/her use of his/her psychotropic medications. D. The client has been regularly taking his/her psychotropic medications as prescribed. 2. Negative Side Effects (2) A. The interactions from the client's medications are causing negative side effects. B. The client reported that he/she has great difficulty tolerating the side effects from his/her medication interaction. C. As the client's medications have been adjusted, he/she reported a decrease in the negative side effects. D. The side effects of the client's medications have been sufficiently decreased such as to increase his/her consistent use of medications. 3. Verbalized Fears of Side Effects (3) A. The client has verbalized his/her fears related to physical and/or emotional side effects of prescribed medications. B. The client dislikes the side effects of his/her prescribed medications. C. As the side effects of the client's medications have been decreased, he/she has become more comfor table and regular in using the medications. D. The client verbalized his/her acceptance of the side effects of the medications, which are outweighed by the beneficial aspects. 4. Failure to Respond to Medications (4) A. The client has not responded as e xpected to his/her prescribed medication regimen. B. The client's failure to respond as expected to his/her medications has been traced to his/her erratic use of them. C. The client's failure to respond as expected to prescribed medications has been trac ed to the confounding effects of polypharmacy. D. The client is now responding as expected to his/her prescribed medication regimen. 5. Lack of Medication Knowledge (5) A. The client displayed a lack of knowledge about his/her medications and their usef ulness or potential side effects. * The numbers in parentheses correlate to the number of the Behavioral Definition statement in the companion chapter with the same title in The Severe and Persistent Mental Illness Treatment Planner, 2nd ed. (Berghuis and Jongsma) by John Wiley & Sons, 2008. 