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Clinical Workshops
The Clinical Workshops at CONNECTIONS2010 will provide mental health counselors, addiction professionals, marriage and family therapists, nurses and other clinical professionals with useful, pragmatic courses taught by Peter Moran, Ph. D.
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Peter Moran, Ph. D.
Clinical Workshops Leader
Peter Moran, Ph.D., is in private practice in Worcester, Massachusetts. He is also staff psychologist at the Department of Psychology at Worcester Medical Center, an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and an instructor at Assumption College. Dr. Moran has a Master of Science in Clinical Psychopharmacology and specializes in treating mood disorders. He has published on mood disorders and psychological treatment strategies in the managed care era. Dr. Moran trains nationally and is known for his practical, engaging style. |
(3.5 CE credits)
Tuesday, May 4, 12:30pm – 4:00pm
Bipolar disorder is a serious, but treatable psychiatric condition that accounts for a significant number of outpatient, inpatient, residential, partial hospitalization, and day treatment referrals. People with bipolar disorder have the highest rates of suicide and substance abuse of any psychiatric illness.
Workshop participants will:
- Recognize risk factors, personality traits, family dynamics, and differential diagnosis issues
- Identify, assess, and intervene in the phases of bipolar disorder
- Obtain practical, evidence-based cognitive-behavioral interventions for problematic cognitive and behavioral symptomatology
- Understand how cognitive-behavioral intervention can work concurrently with psychopharmacological intervention
(4 CE credits)
Wednesday, May 5, 1:00pm – 5:30pm
Be informed and vigilant about the medications your patients are being prescribed. Become an empowered ally to your psychiatric and nurse practitioner colleagues regarding your patients’ functioning between medication-management visits.
This workshop will provide mental health practitioners with a practical overview of the use of commonly prescribed medications.
Learn significant clinical aspects of the latest and most commonly-used drugs, including indications based on diagnosis, physiological functions, and frequent side effects.
Workshop participants will:
- Understand basic biochemical principles regarding mood stabilizing anti-anxiety, anti-depressant and anti-psychotic medications
- Identify symptoms/indications suggesting the need for medication
- Obtain updates on the latest psychopharmacological agents
- Identify potential side effects to medications suggesting possible dosage or medication change.
All information presented will be useful to non-medical professionals in their role as adjunct providers monitoring their patients on medication. Workshop format includes lecture, clinical vignettes, discussion, and case examples.
(3 CE credits)
Thursday, May 6, 2010 8:30am – 11:30am
Anxiety disorders are the most prevalent and costly of all mental health disorders in the U.S. These disorders cause not only cause emotional suffering for clients and their families, but are also costly for the clients’ employers as well as society because vocational functioning and social involvement also deteriorate.
The cognitive behavioral treatment of anxiety disorders is one of the most protocol-specific approaches for mental health illnesses. This workshop will review all Diagnostic and Statistical Manual-IV (DSM-IV) Anxiety Disorders.
Workshop participants will:
- Recognize the nature of anxiety and how it is manifested in each DSM-IV Anxiety Disorder
- Identify Anxiety Disorder demographics, incidence, prevalence, personality traits
- Recognize co-morbid Axis I presentations
- Differentiate Anxiety Disorders diagnostically
- Reduce symptom severity with cognitive behavioral interventions
- Recognize indications for concurrent psychopharmacological interventions
Clinical Workshop attendees can receive Continuing Education (CE) Credit from
the following organizations:
Alabama State Board of Social Work Examiners
California Association for Alcohol/Drug Educators, CAADE
California Association of Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Counselors, CAADAC
California Board of Behavioral Sciences
California Board of Nursing
Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapists
Florida Board of Nursing
Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, Marriage and Family Therapist
National Board for Certified Counselors, NBCC
Ohio Board of Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage and Family Therapist
Texas Board of Examiners of Marriage and Family Therapists
The Association of Addiction Professionals, NAADAC
Note: To receive continuing education credit, you must attend the entire presentation and complete the online post-test attaining a minimum score of 75%. Attendees will be provided with information for taking an online test following completion at Netsmart University for each course they attend.
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