5 hours, 37 minutes NOTE: The seminar manual, CE information, and CE test are contained on disc #1 in PDF format. To access these documents, play disc #1 in your computer. For the video presentation, begin playing disc #1 in your DVD player. 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 Discuss the clinical uses of the five (5) major psychotropic medication classes - the antidepressants, mood stabilizers, anti-anxiety agents, antipsychotics and psychostimulants— how they work, and their common side effects
Describe the benefits, risks, safety factors and controversies associated with psychotropic medication use in children and adolescents
Address the wide array of mental health disorders for which medications are frequently prescribed
Examine what’s coming next as well as emerging and innovative trends in psychopharmacology
Implement effective methods for collaborating with clients, families and prescribers Biological Psychiatry
Neurotransmitters: the brain’s building blocks Depression
Antidepressants: How they work
Antidepressant medications
Cyclics
SSRIs
SNRIs
Atypicals/combining antidepressants
Side effects and risk factors
Herbals and depression
Treatment-resistant depression
Improving compliance with antidepressants
What you and your clients should know Bipolar Disorder
Bipolar Spectrum Disorders
Medicating Bipolar disorder
Lithium as the “gold standard”
Side effects of Lithium
Anticonvulsant and antispsychotic use in Bipolar disorder
Anticonvulsant side effects
Risks of medication non-compliance The Many Manifestations of Anxiety
GAD
Panic Disorder
OCD
PTSD
Medicating anxiety
Benzodiazepines
Non benzodiazepines
Using anxiolytics safely
Side effects of the anxiolytics
Medications used to treat insomnia Schizophrenia
Major psychotic spectrum disorders
Symptom domains of schizophrenia
Medicating the “Split Mind”
How Antipsychotics work
Conventional antipsychotics
Second generation agents
Antipsychotic side effects
Relapse and non compliance Special Populations: Children, Adolescents
Medicating pediatric depression
Antidepressants and suicide in children: The real truth
Pediatric Bipolar Disorder
Medicating anxiety in children
ADHD and its expanding etiology
The evolution of psychostimulants
Antidepressant use in ADHD
Non stimulants
ADHD medication side effects DSM-5™ and Psychotropic Med Use What’s Next: Breakthrough Antipsychotics and Antidepressants
Medications targeting stress hormones
Testosterone and male depression
Breakthrough antipsychotics Collaborating with Clients, Families, and Prescribers. Techniques that Work! Joseph Wegmann, Doctor of Pharmacy, LCSW is a licensed clinical social worker and a Doctor of Pharmacy specializing in psychopharmacology. He has presented psychopharmacology seminars to thousands of healthcare professionals throughout 46 states, and he maintains an active psychotherapy practice specializing in the treatment of depression and anxiety. He is extensively published in the field of psychopharmacology having contributed to numerous clinical newsletters and professional journals across the country. Dr. Wegmann is a contributing writer for Social Work Today, and has an ongoing blog with the prestigious Psychology Today. Joe’s latest book, Psychopharmacology: Straight Talk on Mental Health Medications, is available from www.pesi.com . Explore Joe’s programs at www.pharmatherapist.com , and write him at joe@thepharmatherapist.com. Joe has served as adjunct professor of psychopharmacology in the Southern University of New Orleans master of social work program for 17 years.
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