Live Grand Rounds: Engineering Brain Circuits to Treat Psychiatric Disorders
Mental disorders arise from brain circuit dysfunctions, but most of our treatments target the whole brain rather than defined circuits. Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is a more circuit-directed approach that has done well in movement disorders but has very mixed results in randomized clinical trials for mental illness. Part of the difficulty is that psychiatric DBS is delivered in a trial-and-error fashion, without clear evidence that it engages the target circuits. I will discuss new strategies for developing biomarkers to guide that target engagement, centered around the idea of understanding how brain stimulation changes cognition and decision-making. We have identified ways in which DBS can augment top-down executive function and have linked those changes to cortical electrophysiology. In animals, we have developed new approaches to understand how those changes occur and how we can leverage them for clinical benefit. Taken together, these offer the prospect of a new generation of rationally designed brain stimulation therapies.
Category
  • Grand Rounds
  • Neuromodulation
Format
  • Live Webinar
Credits
  • 1.00 ACEP NBCC clock hours
  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 1.00 Category I credits for Social Workers
  • 1.00 Psychologists
  • 1.00 MNA Contact Hours for Nurses
  • 1.00 Participation
Event date November 15, 2023
Live Workshop: Applied Behavior Analysis and TGNC Affirming Care
Many Autistic adults, adolescents, and children identify as LGBTQIA+. Furthermore, research shows that transgender and gender diverse individuals are 3 to 6% more likely to be diagnosed with autism. Professionals in the field of applied behavior analysis are in a unique position to offer support and affirming services to transgender and gender-nonconforming (TGNC) clients, students, supervisees, and colleagues, given the multiple barriers that TGNC people in the United States experience overall. Participants will gain an understanding of the purpose of engaging in affirming care serves, learn general best practices for Trans and Gender-Non-Conforming (TGNC) clients and learn ways to assess one’s own practices toward cultivating affirming practices.
Category
  • Basic Science
  • LGBTQIA+
  • Workshop
Format
  • Live Webinar
Credits
  • 1.00 ACEP NBCC clock hours
  • 1.00 Behavior Analyst Certification Board
  • 1.00 Category I credits for Social Workers
  • 1.00 Psychologists
  • 1.00 Participation
Event date November 16, 2023
Live Professional Workshop: Feminist Ethics in Psychology: Culturally Sensitive Research and Practice
Clinicians and researchers often confront ethical dilemmas that they must resolve in a manner consistent with the ethical standards and guidelines of their profession. Many ethicists have noted the importance of having ethical frameworks for making ethical decisions. In this workshop learners will examine and apply two ethical frameworks: Feminist Ethics as defined by Brabeck (2002) and Rest’s Four component model of practicing ethics, particularly ethical sensitivity. Particular attention will be paid to making culturally informed ethical decisions.
Category
  • Ethics/Legal
  • Workshop
Format
  • Live Webinar
Credits
  • 3.00 ACEP NBCC clock hours
  • 3.00 Category I credits for Social Workers
  • 3.00 Psychologists
  • 3.00 Participation
Event date November 17, 2023
Live Grand Rounds: Responding to the Children’s Mental Health Emergency Declaration
The Covid-19 pandemic and the resulting social and environmental changes exacerbated an already existing crisis of children’s mental health. Reports by researchers, clinicians, families, and youth have documented increasing rates of depression, anxiety, and suicidal behaviors among youth. The national declaration the children’s mental health emergency by AACAP, AAP and CHA called attention to worsening access to care that had existed prior to the pandemic. The pandemic also highlighted disparities in health care access and treatment, especially for minoritized populations and girls, and the impact of social determinants of health as major drivers for health outcomes, including mental health. Unprecedented national focus on children’s mental health, highlighted by the surgeon general’s report, provides opportunities for psychiatrists along with other mental health professionals to create mental health systems that will better serve our nation’s youth and families.
Category
  • Child & Adolescent
  • Grand Rounds
  • Well-Being
Format
  • Live Webinar
Credits
  • 1.00 ACEP NBCC clock hours
  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 1.00 Category I credits for Social Workers
  • 1.00 Psychologists
  • 1.00 MNA Contact Hours for Nurses
  • 1.00 Participation
Event date November 29, 2023
Live Professional Workshop: Advancing Competencies in Traumatic Stress Care: Ethics and Best Practices
This webinar provides a comprehensive exploration of issues specific to the practice of trauma psychology, focusing on adult survivors of interpersonal violence. Despite the pervasive prevalence of trauma in clinical contexts, many practitioners find themselves in the challenging position of providing treatment without the requisite training and support tailored to this population. The presentation delves into best practices for effectively navigating the ethical and professional dilemmas commonly encountered during the assessment and treatment of trauma survivors.
Category
  • Ethics/Legal
  • Trauma
  • Workshop
Format
  • Live Webinar
Credits
  • 3.00 ACEP NBCC clock hours
  • 3.00 Category I credits for Social Workers
  • 3.00 Psychologists
  • 3.00 Participation
Event date December 1, 2023
Live Grand Rounds: Mental Health Treatment and Climate Change: Beyond the Overview
Climate change presents the mental health professions with profound challenges in responding to and preparing for acute and chronic, multifaceted, mental health needs in individual patients, families, communities and our larger society. Mental health professionals can be as disoriented as others in integrating the evolving realities of climate change and our multiple social crises. However, we do have understandings and skills that are pathways out of disorientation. This presentation will assist the clinician in being more comfortable and capable in responding to and working with climate change realities and climate change material in treatment. Particular attention will be paid to issues for adolescents, young adults, and parents and what is required for “containment” of climate-related experience. There will be emphasis on the public health aspects of our work and the requirement that we deeply understand our predicament, as we must now “skate to where the puck is going to be”.
Category
  • Climate Psychology
  • Grand Rounds
Format
  • Live Webinar
Credits
  • 1.00 ACEP NBCC clock hours
  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 1.00 Category I credits for Social Workers
  • 1.00 Psychologists
  • 1.00 MNA Contact Hours for Nurses
  • 1.00 Participation
Event date December 6, 2023
Live Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Certification Training Day 3
This activity is only available to Larry Epp's group and is by invitation only.
Category
  • Psychotherapy
  • Trauma
  • Workshop
Format
  • Live Webinar
Credits
  • 4.00 ACEP NBCC clock hours
  • 4.00 Category I credits for Social Workers
  • 4.00 Psychologists
  • 4.00 Participation
Event date December 8, 2023
Live OCD & Anxiety Lecture Series: Sessions V & VI - December 8, 2023
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a common and often debilitating mental health condition characterized by unwanted intrusive thoughts (obsessions) and repeated distress-reducing behaviors (compulsions). Frequently misunderstood, misdiagnosed, and mistreated, this series of lectures will demystify OCD and related disorders and the most effective protocols for helping those who suffer from them. Attendees new to or heavily experienced in treating OCD and related disorders will gain knowledge from multiple perspectives. This unique format features six lectures from top experts in the field, scheduled across three sessions over the Fall season. This series includes experts presenting on uncertainty acceptance in OCD treatment, sleep and OCD, process-based treatment of severe OCD and related disorders in for teens, similarities and differences in interventions for OCD and related disorders, current best practices for children and adolescents, and multimodal treatment of pediatric OCD at higher levels of care.
Category
  • Anxiety/OCD
  • Child & Adolescent
  • Psychotherapy
  • Workshop
Format
  • Live Webinar
Credits
  • 3.00 ACEP NBCC clock hours
  • 3.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 3.00 Category I credits for Social Workers
  • 3.00 Psychologists
  • 3.00 MNA Contact Hours for Nurses
  • 3.00 Participation
Event date December 8, 2023
Live Grand Rounds: Thinking about Prescribing: What the Therapeutic Alliance, Evidence-based Psychotherapy and Relational Principles Teach Us about Psychopharmacology with Diverse Youth and Families
This presentation will explore the relational aspects of psychopharmacological work with youth and families. While technical and scientific knowledge can be taught and examined during medical education, the therapeutic skills also known as “nonspecific” treatment factors or “common factors” are more elusive and harder to describe. Differences in culture between the prescriber and the patient often lead to differing perspectives and, if not explored, can interfere with the treatment alliance and subsequently with treatment adherence and/or resistance. Cultural concordance is crucial to teach physicians how to appreciate the cultural background unique to each patient in a way that values and honors our similarities and our differences. In keeping with the adage, The formulation must always precede the prescription, recent work has highlighted the use of the DSM-5 Cultural Formulation Interview as an important tool to more fully understand a young person in the context of their daily life, as part of comprehensive treatment planning. We propose that the term ‘med check’ is not only a misnomer that simply doesn’t exist in child and adolescent psychiatric treatment (as if the patient just comes to us wanting to ‘talk about their meds’), but more importantly it is a disservice to the nature and intention of our work with youth and families. For such time-limited visits where the medication issues are a primary focus, we propose the term, ‘brief pharmacotherapy visits’, which allows us to retain our role as therapists (as an inextricable part of psychopharmacology). An effective pharmacotherapy appointment necessitates the appreciation of many things that inform treatment, and thus pharmacotherapy decisions, including the intricacies of an individual’s culturally informed, biopsychosocial story. It has consistently been shown that strong therapeutic alliances between a patient and their mental health provider, as well as empathy demonstrated by the latter, lead to more positive clinical and functional outcomes- and thus to the primary goal of evaluating and promoting mental health and well-being.
Category
  • Child & Adolescent
  • Grand Rounds
  • Psychopharmacology
Format
  • Live Webinar
Credits
  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 1.00 Category I credits for Social Workers
  • 1.00 Psychologists
  • 1.00 MNA Contact Hours for Nurses
  • 1.00 Participation
Event date December 13, 2023
Live Professional Workshop: Cultural Competency- Awareness, Skills and Knowledge for Effective Behavioral Health Intervention with Older Adult Headed Families
The phenomenon of grandparents raising grandchildren is an increasingly common occurrence. Data from the US Bureau of the Census (2019) report that grandparents have the primary responsibility for the care of more than 5.7 million children in our country. Of the children living in grandparent-maintained households, the highest percentage (12%) is within African-American families; Latinos are about 6% and White-Anglo families are around 4% (Bryson, 2001). Growth in African-American grandparent maintained homes has been calculated to be as high as 20-50% in some low resourced communities. Moreover, a National Health Interview Survey found African-American grandparent-headed households to include an overrepresentation of poverty, unemployed, and low literacy. Equally important is the lack of access that African-American older adults have had to health and hospitals for equitable care. Therefore, when they transition to the role of parenting (children) there can be a gap in the care they receive because of these psychosocial factors.
Category
  • Ethics/Legal
  • Minority Health
  • Workshop
Format
  • Live Webinar
Credits
  • 1.50 ACEP NBCC clock hours
  • 1.50 Category I credits for Social Workers
  • 1.50 Psychologists
  • 1.50 Participation
Event date December 15, 2023

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