Title
Category
Credits
Event date
Cost
Live Workshop: Gambling Disorder: Fundamentals for Healthcare Professionals-Part 1
  • Addiction
  • Workshop
  • 3.00 ACEP NBCC clock hours
  • 3.00 Category I credits for Social Workers
  • 3.00 Psychologists
  • 3.00 Participation
09/22/2023
$0.00
As gambling continues to become increasingly accessible throughout Maryland, the harms associated with gambling are likely to increase. The fundamentals for Gambling Disorder will provide a basic knowledge for identifying the at-risk gambler, screening tools, and brief interventions. It is essential for healthcare professionals to improve their competence in recognizing and treating gambling related problems given the impact gambling has on the family, community, and healthcare systems. This training is applicable and relevant for all helping professionals working with those in treatment for behavioral health disorders and is divided in two parts.
Live Grand Rounds: Climate Psychiatry 101
  • Grand Rounds
  • Psychiatric Illness
  • 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
09/27/2023
$0.00
In this Climate Change & Mental Health 101, the speaker will go over the neuropsychiatric impacts of extreme weather, heat, air pollution, nutritional disease, and rising vector illnesses, and then turn to the emotional effects of climate change, discussing the syndromes of grief, anxiety, anger, and hopelessness in response to climate change and considering how they may be responded to psychotherapeutically in both group and individual settings.
Live Workshop: Gambling Disorder: Fundamentals for Healthcare Professionals-Part 2
  • Addiction
  • Workshop
  • 3.00 ACEP NBCC clock hours
  • 3.00 Category I credits for Social Workers
  • 3.00 Psychologists
  • 3.00 Participation
09/29/2023
$0.00
As gambling continues to become increasingly accessible throughout Maryland, the harms associated with gambling are likely to increase. The fundamentals for Gambling Disorder will provide a basic knowledge for identifying the at-risk gambler, screening tools, and brief interventions. It is essential for healthcare professionals to improve their competence in recognizing and treating gambling related problems given the impact gambling has on the family, community, and healthcare systems. This training is applicable and relevant for all helping professionals working with those in treatment for behavioral health disorders and is divided in two parts.
Live OCD & Anxiety Lecture Series: Sessions I & II - October 6, 2023
  • Anxiety/OCD
  • Psychotherapy
  • Workshop
  • 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
10/06/2023
$0.00
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.
Live Grand Rounds: The Death of the Psychological Self as a Precursor to Suicide
  • Grand Rounds
  • Suicide/Crisis
  • 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
10/11/2023
$0.00
In his new theory of suicidal behavior, Thomas Joiner proposes three factors that mark those most at risk of death: the feeling of being a burden on loved ones; the sense of isolation; and, perhaps chillingly, the learned ability to hurt oneself. He tests the theory against diverse facts taken from clinical anecdotes, history, literature, popular culture, anthropology, epidemiology, genetics, and neurobiology--facts about suicide rates among men and women; white and African-American men; anorexics, athletes, prostitutes, and physicians; members of cults, sports fans, and citizens of nations in crisis.
Live Professional Workshop: The Survivor's Journey: Helping Survivors of Trauma Heal
  • Trauma
  • Workshop
  • 1.50 ACEP NBCC clock hours
  • 1.50 Category I credits for Social Workers
  • 1.50 Psychologists
  • 1.50 Participation
10/13/2023
$0.00
When victims of child abuse, sexual assault, intimate partner violence, or sex trafficking are identified, we know trauma has occurred and internal recovery work from trauma is needed. However, few professionals know how to effectively respond. This session will focus on providing information on trauma, triggers, trauma-informed care, and trauma-focused care to help clients heal through The Survivor’s Journey. Participants will learn the twelve internal and external journeys clients should travel that moves them from victim, to survivor, to thriver.
Live Workshop: Gambling Disorder Treatment Approaches: Motivational Interviewing
  • Addiction
  • Workshop
  • 3.00 ACEP NBCC clock hours
  • 3.00 Category I credits for Social Workers
  • 3.00 Psychologists
  • 3.00 Participation
10/20/2023
$0.00
Motivational interviewing is an approach developed out of Carl Roger’s person-centered model and established by Miller and Rollnick in 1983. This therapeutic approach can assist individuals experiencing gambling related harms recognize their ambivalent feelings and find the internal motivations needed to change their behavior. This training will explore the use motivational interviewing techniques for persons with Gambling Disorder as well as harm reduction strategies.
Live Grand Rounds: Inflammation, Depression, and Omega-3 Fatty Acids
  • Grand Rounds
  • Mood Disorders
  • 1.50 ACEP NBCC clock hours
  • 1.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 1.50 Category I credits for Social Workers
  • 1.50 Psychologists
  • 1.50 MNA Contact Hours for Nurses
  • 1.50 Participation
10/25/2023
$0.00
There is a great deal of interest in the relationship between the immune system and in particular inflammation and psychiatric syndromes. This presentation focuses on the relationship between inflammation and mood disorders. The goals of the talk are; (1) to distinguish between acute and chronic inflammatory states, (2) discuss the impact of peripheral inflammation on dopamine and glutamate systems of some people with inflammation and major depressive disorder, (3) review a series of studies we have performed exploring inflammation, depression and the resolution of both inflammation and depression with a high dose omega-3 fatty acids.
Live Workshop: Gambling Disorder Treatment Approaches: Addressing Family and Finances
  • Addiction
  • Workshop
  • 3.00 ACEP NBCC clock hours
  • 3.00 Category I credits for Social Workers
  • 3.00 Psychologists
  • 3.00 Participation
10/27/2023
$0.00
The expansion of sports betting in Maryland, particularly access to mobile betting, has led to an increase in helpline calls nationally. Persons under the age of 30 are at greater risk for experiencing negative consequences with the expansion of gambling activities found within video and mobile games. This training will examine how to integrate familial interventions and financial planning into treatment for Gambling Disorder. Discussions about the financial impact of gambling on the recovering individual and family will be explored. We will also discuss the recovery process, the challenges and hopes for sustaining positive outcomes.
Live OCD & Anxiety Lecture Series: Sessions III & IV - November 3, 2023
  • Anxiety/OCD
  • Psychotherapy
  • Workshop
  • 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
11/03/2023
$0.00
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.

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