This presentation was last reviewed on January 7, 2026, and broadcast live online on March 23, 2022, from 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM ET.

The intersection of creativity and psychiatry is long-standing and is certainly notable regarding poets and their work. There are a number of major writers who have documented their own experiences of mental illness and trauma through their writing and there has been growing interest and research into the role writing can play in healing and emotional regulation. There has been some exploration of the impact writing has on individuals, both patients and physicians, but writing poetry in collaboration can further decrease the feelings of isolation, foster communication, and create a sustaining and nurturing sense of community within groups, whether those are groups of patients, trainees, or clinical colleagues. This lecture will share lived experience of a poet-psychiatrist and education around poetic forms and their potential for personal and professional application.

This talk will review how AI-based tools are bringing foundational knowledge in psychiatry into question. It will demonstrate how this is playing out most prominently in the domain of aging and dementia care, and how the same tools are also facilitating new paradigms for diagnosis, interventions and care models.

Individuals with ASD and IDD experience high psychiatric and medical comorbidities and significant disparities in access to care, making them particularly vulnerable to ethical missteps such as diagnostic overshadowing, premature assumptions about capacity and treatment, and overuse of restrictive interventions. These challenges persist in part due to limited clinician training in applying medical ethics specifically to neurodevelopmental populations, as well as unexamined cognitive biases that influence decision-making under time pressure. This lecture addresses that gap by providing a practical framework grounded in the four principles of medical ethics, along with structured strategies for bias recognition, and least-restrictive care planning. Participants will leave with concrete tools to slow down clinical reasoning, reduce vulnerability, and deliver more equitable and ethically driven psychiatric care.

This presentation was originally reviewed on February 9, 2026, and live streamed online on February 11, 2026, from 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm ET.

This presentation was originally reviewed on December 8, 2025 and live streamed online on December 10, 2025, from 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm ET.

Telepsychiatry is integral to mental health care, yet the legal and regulatory landscape remains fragmented and rapidly changing. Clinicians struggle with inconsistent rules around cross state practice, evolving controlled substance prescribing standards, shifting payer telehealth policies, and platform requirements. What is often missing is a clear, up to date, and clinician friendly framework. This presentation will outline the current regulatory environment for telepsychiatry, including licensure and compacts, prescribing controlled substances via telemedicine, privacy and security obligations, malpractice and risk management, and safety protocols for virtual care. Attendees will gain tools that they can implement immediately to align their telepsychiatry practice with current laws and best practices.

Psychiatric care continues to be complex and often difficult to show sound value outcomes. Team based care is important to ensure that psychiatric patients are provided multi-factorial treatment model to address not only acute symptom treatment but also chronic disease strategy management, issues related to social determinants of mental health and larger systems related care navigation. Currently, even with robust case management and physician-led team models, care often can be disjointed, poorly aligned and silo’ed. AI and advanced data analytics can pose a supportive function in developing high quality, coordinated team based model that can show high value in caring for psychiatric patients. The presentation will help clinicians evaluate and think about how AI and advanced data analytics will augment and support high quality team based psychiatric care

This presentation was originally reviewed on January 14, 2026, and live streamed online on January 14, 2026, from 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm ET.

This presentation will trace the evolution of diagnostic reasoning in psychiatry from the pre DSM III era to the present and examine the implications of current efforts to shift from categorical diagnoses toward more dimensional and transdiagnostic approaches. It will review contemporary conceptual models for assessing anxiety, depression, and trauma to illustrate how different diagnostic frameworks influence prevalence estimates, genetic findings, clinical trial outcomes, and, importantly, the ways we communicate with the public about mental health. Finally, the presentation will introduce a method of case formulation designed to address challenges in current assessment and treatment practices, including the all too common practice of accumulating comorbid diagnoses leading to ‘polytreatment’ approaches.