| PACE Seminars programs, DSM-IV-TR and Ethics
meets the criteria for continuing education credit. Participants are encouraged to bring a DSM-IV manual and a copy of the ethical
code they follow to the seminars.
Seminar Objectives: Using lecture, handouts, video
& small and large group discussions, by the end of each seminar participants will
learn:
Psychiatric Diagnosis: Interviewing and Treatment Planning Using
the DSM
- Review of Evolution of DSM and the impact it has made on
Psychiatry
- Understand how DSM is evolving back to a more client based
Ideology
- Discuss the relationship between Axis IV, V codes and Axis I and
review the Multiaxial system
- Review elements of motivational interviewing
- Develop a game plan based on Ego-Syntonic vs. Ego-Dystonic
Disorders
- Review various diagnostic categories and criteria
Recognizing the DSM-IV-TR: Personality Disorders
- Role of Non-Physician Practitioner in Treating Personality Disorders
- Diagnostic Criterion specific to all Personality Disorders
- Extensive video review of all DSM-IV-TR: Personality Disorders & blending
of sub types
- Discuss clinical approaches of how to cope with various Personality Disorders
- Discuss application of dialectic approach to borderline Personality Disorders
DSM-IV-TR: Adult Diagnostic & Treatment Issues
- Pros & Cons of Psychiatric Diagnosis
- The DSM-IV Criteria Based System
- Why Multi-Axial Diagnosis
- Developing interview questions which lead to DSM-IV Diagnosis
- Cases involving a variety of disorders with tapes of actual patients
DSM-IV-TR: Diagnostic & Treatment Of Older Adults
- Participants will learn biological markers of the aging process which distinguish
normal aging from disease
- Explore myths of aging and the problem of autism
- Explore DSM-IV criteria for depression and discuss symptoms commonly seen
in the elderly
- Explore causes of delirium in the elderly
- Explore types of dementia and their distinguishing markers
- Will learn helpful methods to clinically distinguish depression, delirium
and dementia
- Will learn how to effectively screen for symptoms using the mini mental
status exam (MMSE)
- Participants will discuss strategies
Diagnostic & Treatment of the Major DSM-IV-TR Psychiatric Disorders:
Depression, Anxiety, and Psychosis
- Participants will review diagnostic criteria for various depressive disorders
in DSM-IV-TR
- Participants will discuss various cognitive behavioral treatment strategies
for use in working with depressed patients
- Participants will review diagnostic criteria for anxiety disorders in DSM-IV-TR
- Participants will discuss various cognitive behavioral strategies proposed
by Dr. Gary Emery regarding treatment of anxiety patients
- Participants will review diagnostic criteria for psychotic disorders in
DSM-IV-TR
- Participants will briefly discuss reality based strategies for working with
psychotic patients
- Participants will observe interviews with patients with depression, anxiety
and psychotic disorder
Managing Ethics, Risk and Boundaries in your Daily Mental Health Practice:
A Personalized Approach
- Identify the factors which determine how you will apply Ethics
to your practice
- Understand the concept of individual risk tolerance and how this
affects your daily practice
- Identify potentially problematic areas in your practice and how
you can manage them
- Distinguish boundary crossing from boundary violating
- Discuss informed consent, documentation and consultation as key
elements of managing risk
- Discuss various aspects of ethical codes as they apply to case
examples
Review of Ethical Principals & Situations I
- Discuss commonalities among ethics codes of NASW, NBCC, ACA, AAMFT, and
APA
- Discuss common ethical pitfalls and traps
- Discuss the one intervention to help and cope with ethical dilemmas
Review of Ethical Principles & Situations II
- Discuss the one intervention to help cope with ethical dilemmas
- Expose elements of malpractice which must be present before a suit can be
successful against you
- Discuss a variety of ethical vignettes
Ethics & the Difficult Client
- Explore elements of malpractice which must be present before a suit can
be successful against you
- Discuss a 3-step ethics decision making model
- Discuss common ethical pitfalls and traps
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