This presentation was last reviewed on January 21, 2025, and broadcast live online on April 15, 2022, from 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM ET. 

This presentation was last reviewed on January 21, 2025, and broadcast live online on April 15, 2022, from 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM ET. 

Productive and meaningful therapy often hinges on a clear understanding of the worldview of the client. Deepened, more empathic understanding of clients would be enhanced by knowledge of how such individual worldviews arise and evolve. Such information about the construction of individual meaning systems is now available, based upon rigorous longitudinal research. The goal of this presentation is to summarize this emerging knowledge in a way that makes clear its clinical relevance.

This presentation explores the role of psychoanalytically-informed, hospital-based care in the diagnosis and treatment of psychiatry’s most treatment-refractory patients. Object relations theory and Bion’s exposition of group psychological processes inform an understanding of transference-counter transference phenomena which endow the psychoanalytic hospital with its uniquely mutative potential.

Have you ever been faced with a client with a BFRB and not known how to approach treatment? Hair pulling and skin picking disorders (Body Focused Repetitive Behaviors or BFRBs) are fairly common, yet treatment information is lacking, and knowledgeable treatment providers are scarce. This talk seeks to address the dearth of available, evidence-based treatment by providing a comprehensive description of what BFRBs are (and what they are not), information on how to conceptualize BFRBs utilizing an individualized approach based upon a functional analysis, as well as specific treatment guidelines for building an individualized treatment plan. Participants will learn to diagnose, conceptualize, and treat BFRBs utilizing a functional analytic approach that is tailored to the individual. Dealing with treatment resistance, co-morbid disorders, and addressing shame will all be covered in this thorough clinical training taught by two recognized experts in the field of BFRBs, Time will be allotted for clinical questions and case conceptualization.

This presentation was originally reviewed on December 17, 2024, and live streamed online on December 18, 2024, from 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm ET.

In this module, you will assess a patient with major depressive disorder whose current depressive episode has not remitted despite multiple medication trials. The first part reviews the PRAT approach for suspected difficult-to-treat depression. The second describes the STAR*D trial and its implications for additional medication trials. The third part introduces neuromodulation as a treatment strategy, providing an overview of electroconvulsive therapy, transcranial magnetic stimulation, and vagus nerve stimulation.

This presentation was originally reviewed on November 7, 2024, and in person and live streamed online on November 8, 2024, from 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm ET.

In this module, you will have the opportunity to assess a patient with suspected difficult-to-treat depression. The first part reinforces the foundational principles you learned in the introductory module: differentiating syndrome from diagnosis and recognizing suspected difficult-to-treat depression. The second part reviews the PRAT approach and then specifically focuses on how to evaluate the psychiatric diagnosis using a review of systems. The third part reviews the clinical features of bipolar disorder, which is an important diagnosis to consider in suspected difficult-to-treat depression.

This presentation was originally reviewed on October 30, 2024, and in person and live streamed online on November 1, 2024, from 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm ET.