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by Tim Cassidy | Sep 19, 2019 | Uncategorized
This course includes a 5-session family education and support program for service members and veterans who have recently returned from a combat theater, and their family members.
Objectives:
a). Discuss the rationale for including family members when treating veterans.
b). State the four goals of the Operation Enduring Families program.
c). Describe the themes/topics of each of the five sessions of the Operation Enduring Families program.
d). Name and describe at least two of the exercises described in this course.
Target Audience:
The target audience for this event includes psychologists, licensed clinical social workers, licensed counselors, MFT’s, and other clinical mental health professionals.
Instructional Level: Intermediate
Instructor(s): Jennifer Sweeton, Psy.D, MS, MA
Material Author(s): Ursula Bowling, Psy.D., Alan Doerman, Psy.D., ABPP, & Michelle D. Sherman, Ph.D.
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by Tim Cassidy | Sep 19, 2019 | Uncategorized
This course discusses the controversial relationship between antidepressants and suicidality in children and adolescents, and outlines three possible neurobiological mechanisms that might account for this adverse effect.
Objectives:
a). Discuss the “black box” warning for antidepressants in children and adolescents.
b). Name at least one psychosocial factor that increases an individual’s suicide risk.
c). Describe what is currently known about the link between serotonin levels and depression symptoms, including suicidal ideation.
d). List the three mechanisms the authors assert might account for SSRIs precipitating suicidal ideation.
Target Audience:
The target audience for this event includes psychologists, licensed clinical social workers, licensed counselors, MFT’s, and other clinical mental health professionals.
Instructional Level: Intermediate
Instructor(s): Jennifer Sweeton, Psy.D, MS, MA
Material Author(s):Julia Morrison & Thomas L. Schwartz
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by Tim Cassidy | Sep 19, 2019 | Uncategorized
This course focuses on the processes used by a multidisciplinary team in the journey from opposition, to change, to recovery from eating disorders.
Objectives:
a). Name the phases of the “five-phase journey from eating disorder disability to health.”
b). Describe the transdiagnostic orientation discussed in the course.
c). Discuss the results of the longitudinal study examining an integrated (narrative and motivational interviewing) approach to eating disorders.
Target Audience:
The target audience for this event includes psychologists, licensed clinical social workers, licensed counselors, MFT’s, and other clinical mental health professionals.
Instructional Level: Intermediate
Instructor(s): Jennifer Sweeton, Psy.D, MS, MA
Material Author(s): Moria Golan
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by Tim Cassidy | Sep 18, 2019 | Uncategorized
There are many medical complications associated with bulimia nervosa, many of which are a direct result of both the mode and the frequency of purging behaviors. This course reviews in detail the many complications of the two major modes of purging, namely, self-induced vomiting and laxative abuse.
Objectives:
a). List at least three medical complications associated with bulimia.
b). Discuss the body systems impacted by bulimia.
c). Describe the two major modes of purging.
d). Identify at least two medical complications of laxative abuse.
Target Audience:
The target audience for this event includes psychologists, licensed clinical social workers, licensed counselors, MFT’s, and other clinical mental health professionals.
Instructional Level: Intermediate
Instructor(s): Jennifer Sweeton, Psy.D, MS, MA
Material Author(s): Philip S. Mehler & Melanie Rylander
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by Tim Cassidy | Sep 17, 2019 | Uncategorized
Patients suffering from anorexia nervosa have a litany of medical complications which are commonly present as part of their eating disorders. This course reviews all body systems affected by anorexia and provides information about how to identify medical complications in anorexia.
Objectives:
a). List at least three medical complications associated with anorexia.
b). Discuss the body systems impacted by anorexia.
c). Describe one medical complication that needs to be identified and treated as early as possible during the course of anorexia.
d). Discuss why eating disorders tend to be associated with more medical complications than other types of mental disorders.
Target Audience:
The target audience for this event includes psychologists, licensed clinical social workers, licensed counselors, MFT’s, and other clinical mental health professionals.
Instructional Level: Intermediate
Instructor(s): Jennifer Sweeton, Psy.D, MS, MA
Material Author(s): Philip S. Mehler & Carrie Brown
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