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Off-label prescribing is when a physician gives you a drug that the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) has approved to treat a condition different than your condition. This practice
is legal and common. In fact, one in five prescriptions written today are for off-label use.
-Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
For this Assignment, you consider these questions and others as you explore FDA-approved (“on label”)
pharmacological treatments, non-FDA-approved (“off-label”) pharmacological treatments, and
nonpharmacological treatments for disorders in children and adolescents.
TO PREPARE

• Your instructor will assign a specific disorder for you to research for this Assignment- Assigned
  Topic Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).
• Use the Walden library to research evidence-based treatments for your assigned disorder in children
  and adolescents. You will need to recommend one FDA-approved drug, one off-label drug, and one
  nonpharmacological intervention for treating this disorder in children and adolescents.
  THE ASSIGNMENT (2 PAGES)
• Recommend one FDA-approved drug, one off-label drug, and one nonpharmacological
  intervention for treating your assigned disorder in children and adolescents.
• Explain the risk assessment you would use to inform your treatment decision making. What are the
  risks and benefits of the FDA-approved medicine? What are the risks and benefits of the off-label
  drug?
• Explain whether clinical practice guidelines exist for this disorder and, if so, use them to justify
  your recommendations. If not, explain what information you would need to take into consideration.
• Support your reasoning with at least three scholarly resources, one each on the FDA-approved drug,
  the off-label, and a non-medication intervention for the disorder. Attach the PDFs of your sources

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