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Tourette's Disorders Case Study

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Professional interventions for Tourette’s disorder can include the use of medications and what social workers or other helping professionals use. For instance, even though medications cannot cure the disorder, it can help reduce the symptoms (Berlin, n.d.). Some of these medications include Haloperidol, risperidone, and olanzapine (Berlin, n.d.). Often the medications that are used to treat the symptoms are first administered in small dosages and increases steadily until maximum benefit and improvement of symptoms are accomplished (Collins, 2005). It is important to keep in mind that there are some side effects to taking these kinds of medications including weight gain, dry mouth, muscular rigidity, and social withdrawal (Collins, 2005). From

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