Seminar Detail
Psychopharmacology: What You Need to Know Today About Psychiatric Medications
Where: SCRANTON, PA
When: Monday, January 22, 2018 at 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM
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For more information: Call (800) 844-8260
Where: SCRANTON, PA
When: Monday, January 22, 2018 at 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM
This event is not currently available for purchase.
For more information: Call (800) 844-8260
Course Description:
Most Up-To-Date Psychotropic Medication Info – Guaranteed!
Demands on mental health professionals to expand their knowledge of psychotropic meds are like never before … not only do you need to be on top of the latest developments and what is on the horizon, but you also have to take that information, and use it most effectively for your client.
Most Up-To-Date Psychotropic Medication Info – Guaranteed!
Demands on mental health professionals to expand their knowledge of psychotropic meds are like never before … not only do you need to be on top of the latest developments and what is on the horizon, but you also have to take that information, and use it most effectively for your client.
- Proven methods to improve clients’ understanding of their mental illness, and how medication aids recovery
- Identifying treatment concerns with inappropriate, inadequate doses of medication
- Tools to help clients manage unpleasant side effects
- Strategies to improve client adherence to medications
- Depression, bipolar, anxiety, schizophrenia, ADHD – the latest trends in medication management
Objectives:
- Evaluate the clinical uses of the five major psychotropic medication classes – the antidepressants, mood stabilizers, anti-anxiety agents, antipsychotics and psychostimulants – how they work and their common side effects.
- Breakdown the potential benefits and risks of using psychotropic medication for a wide array of conditions and patients.
- Explore the wide array of mental health disorders for which medications are frequently prescribed.
- Determine what’s coming next as well as emerging and innovative trends in psychopharmacology.
- Implement effective methods for collaborating with clients, families and prescribers.
- Communicate the ethical and legal issues in discussing medications with clients.
OUTLINE
Biological Psychiatry
What’s Next: Newly Approved Mental Health Medications
Biological Psychiatry
- Neurotransmitters: The theoretical emotional signaling chemicals of the brain
- Antidepressants: How they are thought to work
- Cyclics
- SSRIs
- SNRIs
- Other common antidepressants – and why they are used
- Side effects and risk factors
- Herbals and depression
- Treatment-resistant depression
- What you and your clients should know
- Medicating Bipolar disorder
- Current “gold standard” treatment and side effects
- Anticonvulsant and antipsychotic use in Bipolar disorder
- Anticonvulsant side effects
- Risks of medication non-compliance
- New! Controversial concepts in treating Bipolar spectrum
- Medicating anxiety
- Benzodiazepines
- Non-benzodiazepines
- Medications used to treat insomnia
- Using anxiolytics safely
- Side effects of the anxiolytics
- How antipsychotics medications are thought to work
- Conventional antipsychotics
- Second generation agents
- Antipsychotic side effects
- Relapse and non-compliance
- Antidepressants and suicide in children: The real truth
- Medicating anxiety in children
- Disruptive mood dysregulation disorder – the new pediatric bipolar disorder?
- The evolution of psychostimulants
What’s Next: Newly Approved Mental Health Medications
THOMAS SMITH, P.D., FASCP, LMHC, NCP, BCCP
Tom Smith, P.D., FASCP, LMHC, NCP, BCC, is a Doctor of Pharmacy, a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, a Nationally Certified Psychologist, and a Board Certified Clinical Counselor. He holds academic appointments at Butler School of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, the Saint Louis University School of Graduate Nursing, and the University of Phoenix. Tom is a Fellow of the American Society of Consulting Pharmacists.
Tom has spoken on Bipolar Disorder, the DSM-5®, and psychopharmacology throughout the United States. He is the author of Psychopharmacology Made Simple: A Primer, and he is internationally published on the topic of Aromatherapy.
Tom maintains an active private practice in Martinsville, Indiana, where he works with clients of all ages.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Tom Smith maintains a private practice. He will address ‘off-label’ uses of commercial products. Mr. Smith is a speaker who receives an honorarium for PESI, Inc.
Nonfinancial: Tom Smith is nationally published on the Americans with Disabilities Act and receives no compensation.
Tom has spoken on Bipolar Disorder, the DSM-5®, and psychopharmacology throughout the United States. He is the author of Psychopharmacology Made Simple: A Primer, and he is internationally published on the topic of Aromatherapy.
Tom maintains an active private practice in Martinsville, Indiana, where he works with clients of all ages.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Tom Smith maintains a private practice. He will address ‘off-label’ uses of commercial products. Mr. Smith is a speaker who receives an honorarium for PESI, Inc.
Nonfinancial: Tom Smith is nationally published on the Americans with Disabilities Act and receives no compensation.
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If your profession is not listed, please contact your licensing board to determine your continuing education requirements and check for reciprocal approval. For other credit inquiries not specified below, or questions on home study credit availability, please contact cepesi@pesi.com or 800-844-8260 before the event.
Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of mental health professionals. 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 professions standards.
PESI, Inc. offers continuing education programs and products under the brand names PESI, PESI Healthcare, PESI Rehab and Psychotherapy Networker.
ADDICTION COUNSELORS
This course has been approved by PESI, Inc., as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for 6.0 CE in the Treatment Plan skill group. NAADAC Provider #77553. PESI, Inc. is responsible for all aspects of their programming. Full attendance is required; no partial credit will be awarded for partial attendance.
PENNSYLVANIA ADDICTION COUNSELORS: This course has been reviewed and approved for by the Pennsylvania Certification Board. This course will award 6.00 PCB Approved Hours of Education. (Valid for PA locations only)
COUNSELORS
This intermediate activity consists of 6.25 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please save the course outline, the certificate of completion you receive from the activity and contact your state board or organization to determine specific filing requirements.
MARYLAND COUNSELORS: This intermediate activity is approved for 6.25 clock hours of continuing education instruction. The Maryland Board of Professional Counselors recognizes courses and providers that are approved by the NAADAC. A certificate of attendance will be awarded at the end of the program to counselors who complete the program evaluation, to submit to their state board.
WEST VIRGINIA COUNSELORS: This program has been approved by the West Virginia Board of Examiners in Counseling. Approval #: WVBEC-012218. This course qualifies for 6.25 continuing education credits.
MARRIAGE & FAMILY THERAPISTS
This activity consists of 380 minutes of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. You should save this course outline, the certificate of completion you receive from the activity and contact your state board or organization to determine specific filing requirements.
NURSES/NURSE PRACTITIONER/CLINICAL NURSE SPECIALISTS
PESI, Inc. is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Nurses in full attendance will earn 6.3 contact hours. Partial contact hours will be awarded for partial attendance.
NURSE PRACTITIONERS
This program offers 380 instructional minutes of pharmacology content which is designed to qualify for 6.3 contact hours toward your pharmacology requirement to receive credit. It is your responsibility to submit your certificate of successful completion and a copy of the seminar brochure to your licensing board.
PHARMACISTS
PSYCHOLOGISTS
SOCIAL WORKERS
PENNSYLVANIA SOCIAL WORKERS, MARRIAGE & FAMILY THERAPISTS AND PROFESSIONAL COUNSELORS: This intermediate activity consists of 6.25 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please contact your licensing board to determine if they accept programs or providers approved by other national or state licensing boards. A certificate of attendance will be awarded at the end of the program to participants who are in full attendance and who complete the program evaluation. Full attendance is required; no partial credits will be offered for partial attendance.
WEST VIRGINIA SOCIAL WORKERS: The West Virginia Board of Social Work Examiners can only approve programs held in the state of West Virginia. This course does not qualify for West Virginia social work credits. You will still receive a certificate of completion at the end of the seminar to retain for your records.
OTHER PROFESSIONS
This activity qualifies for 380 minutes of instructional content as required by many national, state and local licensing boards and professional organizations. Save your course outline and certificate of completion, and contact your own board or organization for specific requirements.
If your profession is not listed, please contact your licensing board to determine your continuing education requirements and check for reciprocal approval. For other credit inquiries not specified below, or questions on home study credit availability, please contact cepesi@pesi.com or 800-844-8260 before the event.
Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of mental health professionals. 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 professions standards.
PESI, Inc. offers continuing education programs and products under the brand names PESI, PESI Healthcare, PESI Rehab and Psychotherapy Networker.
ADDICTION COUNSELORS
This course has been approved by PESI, Inc., as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for 6.0 CE in the Treatment Plan skill group. NAADAC Provider #77553. PESI, Inc. is responsible for all aspects of their programming. Full attendance is required; no partial credit will be awarded for partial attendance.
PENNSYLVANIA ADDICTION COUNSELORS: This course has been reviewed and approved for by the Pennsylvania Certification Board. This course will award 6.00 PCB Approved Hours of Education. (Valid for PA locations only)
COUNSELORS
This intermediate activity consists of 6.25 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please save the course outline, the certificate of completion you receive from the activity and contact your state board or organization to determine specific filing requirements.
MARYLAND COUNSELORS: This intermediate activity is approved for 6.25 clock hours of continuing education instruction. The Maryland Board of Professional Counselors recognizes courses and providers that are approved by the NAADAC. A certificate of attendance will be awarded at the end of the program to counselors who complete the program evaluation, to submit to their state board.
WEST VIRGINIA COUNSELORS: This program has been approved by the West Virginia Board of Examiners in Counseling. Approval #: WVBEC-012218. This course qualifies for 6.25 continuing education credits.
MARRIAGE & FAMILY THERAPISTS
This activity consists of 380 minutes of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. You should save this course outline, the certificate of completion you receive from the activity and contact your state board or organization to determine specific filing requirements.
NURSES/NURSE PRACTITIONER/CLINICAL NURSE SPECIALISTS
Nurses in full attendance will earn 6.3 contact hours. Partial contact hours will be awarded for partial attendance.
NURSE PRACTITIONERS
This program offers 380 instructional minutes of pharmacology content which is designed to qualify for 6.3 contact hours toward your pharmacology requirement to receive credit. It is your responsibility to submit your certificate of successful completion and a copy of the seminar brochure to your licensing board.
PHARMACISTS
PSYCHOLOGISTS
SOCIAL WORKERS
PENNSYLVANIA SOCIAL WORKERS, MARRIAGE & FAMILY THERAPISTS AND PROFESSIONAL COUNSELORS: This intermediate activity consists of 6.25 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please contact your licensing board to determine if they accept programs or providers approved by other national or state licensing boards. A certificate of attendance will be awarded at the end of the program to participants who are in full attendance and who complete the program evaluation. Full attendance is required; no partial credits will be offered for partial attendance.
WEST VIRGINIA SOCIAL WORKERS: The West Virginia Board of Social Work Examiners can only approve programs held in the state of West Virginia. This course does not qualify for West Virginia social work credits. You will still receive a certificate of completion at the end of the seminar to retain for your records.
OTHER PROFESSIONS
This activity qualifies for 380 minutes of instructional content as required by many national, state and local licensing boards and professional organizations. Save your course outline and certificate of completion, and contact your own board or organization for specific requirements.
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Your satisfaction is our goal and our guarantee. Concerns should be addressed to PESI HealthCare, P.O. Box 1000, Eau Claire, WI 54702-1000 or call (800) 844-8260.
ADA Needs
We would be happy to accommodate your ADA needs; please call our Customer Service Department for more information at (800) 844-8260.
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