Friday, May 20, 2022

  • 05/20/2022 - 9:00am to 12:15pm
    During the COVID-19 pandemic, countless disruptions and challenges impacted everyday life as well as clinical care. Clinicians were called upon to maintain flexibility in the context of uncertainty on a near-constant basis. The Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) framework can support our adaptation to this unique context; ACT aims to foster psychological flexibility by disarming the struggle with uncomfortable thoughts and emotions and aligning actions with personal values and sources of meaning and purpose. To support providers, this workshop will summarize the ACT framework and transdiagnostic applications, then highlight the particular relevance of this approach to current pandemic-related mental health challenges. This workshop will be geared to engage providers at any level of previous ACT experience by linking theory and experiential practice, and developing integrative treatment plans incorporating ACT tools and techniques alongside other empirically supported treatments.
  • 05/20/2022 - 1:00pm to 4:15pm
    The current COVID-19 pandemic has been transformative for medicine and society. This is also reflected in the unprecedented volume of COVID-relevant papers on every subject of life sciences and humanities. A multitude of neurological and psychiatric problems and illnesses have been associated, in one way or another, with COVID-19. Much research is still in the early phase, but some patterns being to emerge. Because of the spread of infection and the commonality of neuropsychiatric complaints, the neurological and psychiatric practitioner will inevitably deal with problems or questions linking the virus with behavioral, cognitive, and mental complaints. This CME activity will provide a general framework within which such problems can be understood and managed, while awaiting more definitive information from ongoing research.