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Digital Seminar

2013 Psychopharmacology Updates for Mental Health Clinicians


Speaker:
Susan Marie, PhD, PMHNP, CARN-AP
Duration:
6 Hours 11 Minutes
Format:
Audio and Video
Copyright:
Sep 13, 2013
Product Code:
POS045945
Media Type:
Digital Seminar


Description

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  • DSM-5® impacts on prescribing patterns
  • Best medications for each disorder
  • Identify dangerous adverse reactions and how to keep your clients safe
  • Strategies to build strong, effective alliances with prescribers
  • Tools to quickly assess meds effectiveness

Mental health professionals are encountering an ever-expanding list of medications from prescribers to treat anything from anxiety, depression, to attention deficit disorders and beyond.

It is vital that you have a working and up-to-date familiarity with the range of available psychotropics, and when and how they might benefit your clients.

Join Dr. Susan Marie and take advantage of her expertise and practical teaching style, to get the most current information to optimize your clients’ mental health treatment.

You will leave with a comprehensive understanding of the most frequently prescribed psychotropic medications, and knowledge and strategies to guide clients with troublesome, and potentially dangerous side effects.

  • State of the art use of medications, dosing and safety monitoring
  • Depression, bipolar, psychotic disorders, anxiety, substance use disorders and ADHD
  • Tips to build strong alliances with prescribers
  • Benefits, risks and controversies with specific meds

OUTLINE

Depression – More than Neurotransmitters

  • DSM-5® & new implications for prescribing
  • When do antidepressants work?
  • Tricyclics, SSRIs, SNRIs, NRIs & therapeutic dosing
  • Drug interactions, managing side effects
  • Measuring improvement: The new normal
  • When to go OFF medication
  • Why is my client not better? Augmentation strategies

Bipolar Disorder: Smoothing the roller coaster

  • Increasing diagnostic accuracy: The Holy Grail
  • Using measurement based tools more effectively
  • Bipolar I vs. Bipolar II - and others!
  • Bipolar depression & antidepressants
  • Mood stabilizing agents
  • Lithium, Anticonvulsants, Atypical
  • Antipsychotics
  • When your client uses alcohol & drugs- Then what?
  • Multiple agents: Polypharmacy to effective treatment

Psychotic Spectrum Disorders/Schizophrenia

  • Recognizing psychosis across diagnoses
  • 2 best assessment questions with patients who “don’t look crazy”
  • State-of-the-art treatment
  • Typical and atypical agents
  • EPS (Extrapyramidal symptoms)
  • Meaningful differences, dosing, side effects & assessment
  • Effectively preventing relapse
  • Weight gain
  • Medication refusal & ways to intervene

Anxiety Disorders: OCD, GAD, PTSD and Panic Disorder

  • Best meds for each disorder
  • When medication helps and when it hurts
  • Safe and effective use of benzodiazepines
  • How to get off benzodiazepines
  • The “overwhelmed with life” syndrome the DSM-5® has missed

The Common Curse of Insomnia

  • The treatment-resistant insomnia golden key (and without pills!)
  • Hypnotics, over the counters, non-hypnotics and why they are a problem

Attentional Disorders

  • Criteria for treatment: Functioning, not diagnosis
  • Stimulants: Agents, dosing, suitable clients
  • Other alternatives: Atomoxetine, buprorion, alpha agonists
  • DSM-5® and new prescribing patterns

Complementary & Non-Med Strategies

  • Managing anxiety, depression
  • What to avoid

Substance Use Disorders

  • Coordination of treatment
  • Alcohol, nicotine, opiates, behavior
  • Co-occurring disorders

The Medication Referral

  • 3 key strategies to increase acceptance
  • Developing strong, effective partnerships with prescribers
  • What questions clients need to ask!

OBJECTIVES

  • Describe the 3 key strategies to building effective, strong alliances with prescribing professionals
  • Identify classes of psychotropic medications and appropriate doses for mood disorders, psychotic disorders, anxiety disorders, insomnia, and ADHD.
  • List side effects of psychotropic medications and discriminate between benign and potentially dangerous problems.
  • Describe 3 key questions for differentiating bipolar and unipolar mood disorders.
  • Outline the key components in communicating the potential benefits and/or harm from benzodiazepines.
  • Recognize dangerous benzodiazepine prescribing and describe intervention.
  • Compare and contrast the side effect profiles of older “typical” antipsychotics and the “atypical” agents, and describe the different strategies to intervene.

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NOTE: Tuition includes one free CE Certificate (participant will be able to print the certificate of completion after completing the on-line post-test (80% passing score) and completing the evaluation). 

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Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of your profession.  As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your profession's standards.  

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Pharmacology Nurse Practitioners

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Speaker

Susan Marie, PhD, PMHNP, CARN-AP's Profile

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Clinical Associate Professor


Susan Marie, PhD, PMHNP, CARN-AP, a licensed psychiatric nurse practitioner with full independent prescriptive practice and certification in addictions, brings to you over 30 years of clinical experience with highly vulnerable clients with suicidality, co-occurring addiction, homelessness, serious mental illnesses, traumatic brain injuries, and persistent pain conditions. She is noted for her “pearls and pitfalls” of psychopharmacology.  Her passions are radical respect for people with serious mental illnesses & addictions, excellence in psychopharmacology, and integrating psychotherapeutic interventions for clients with PTSD, addictions and chronic pain.

Dr. Marie is Senior Clinical Director for Behavioral Health at Old Town Clinic, Central City Concern and Associate Professor at Oregon Health and Science University in Portland, Oregon.  She teaches nationally on psychopharmacology as well as suicide assessment and intervention. 

 

Speaker Disclosures:

Financial: Susan Marie is an Associate Professor for Oregon Health & Science University. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Susan Marie has no relevant non-financial relationship to disclose.


Additional Info

Access for Self-Study (Non-Interactive)

Access never expires for this product.


Target Audience

Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, Case Managers, Addiction Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, and other Mental Health Professionals

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