Seminar Detail
Psychopharmacology: What You Need to Know Today About Psychiatric Medications
Where: PITTSBURGH, PA
When: Friday, June 15, 2018 at 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Other ways to Register: Call (800) 844-8260 | Printable Form (fax or mail)
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Where: PITTSBURGH, PA
When: Friday, June 15, 2018 at 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Other ways to Register: Call (800) 844-8260 | Printable Form (fax or mail)
Credit Card Required for online registration | Contact us to redeem Gift Certificates
Details
$229.99
Single Registration
$199.99
Single Registration: Advance Price (ends 5/26/2018)
$199.99
2+ Group Rate: per person
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Location
CROWNE PLAZA PITTSBURGH SOUTH
164 FORT COUCH ROAD
PITTSBURGH, PA 15241
Phone: 412-833-5300
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Alternate Locations
CROWNE PLAZA PITTSBURGH SOUTH
164 FORT COUCH ROAD
PITTSBURGH, PA 15241
Phone: 412-833-5300
View Map
Alternate Locations
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Course Description:
Most Up-To-Date Psychotropic Medication Info
Demands on mental health professionals to expand their knowledge of psychotropic meds are like never before…not only do you need to be on top of the latest developments and what is on the horizon, but you also have to take that information, and use it most effectively for your client.
Most Up-To-Date Psychotropic Medication Info
Demands on mental health professionals to expand their knowledge of psychotropic meds are like never before…not only do you need to be on top of the latest developments and what is on the horizon, but you also have to take that information, and use it most effectively for your client.
- Improve clients’ understanding of their mental illness, and how medication aids recovery
- Identifying treatment concerns with inappropriate, inadequate doses of medication
- Tools to help clients manage unpleasant side effects
- Strategies to improve client adherence to medications
- Depression, bipolar, anxiety, schizophrenia, ADHD -- the latest trends in medication management
Objectives:
- Articulate the clinical uses of the five major psychotropic medication classes – antidepressants, mood stabilizers, anti-anxiety agents, antipsychotics and psychostimulants –including their efficacy and their common side effects.
- Communicate the potential benefits and risks of using psychotropic medication to treat a wide array of conditions.
- Explore psychotropic medication treatment options for clients with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder.
- Analyze the actions, therapeutic uses, and side effects of antidepressants in adults and children.
- Implement effective methods for collaborating with clients, families and prescribers in order to build a comprehensive treatment plan.
- Explore specific ethical issues and their resolve to the everyday practice of clinical psychopharmacology.
OUTLINE
Biological Psychiatry
What’s Next: Newly Approved Mental Health Medications
Biological Psychiatry
- Neurotransmitters: The theoretical emotional signaling chemicals of the brain
- Limitations of the research and potential risks
- Antidepressants: How they are thought to work
- Cyclics
- SSRIs
- SNRIs
- Other common antidepressants – and why they are used
- Side effects and risk factors
- Herbals and depression
- Treatment-resistant depression
- Limitations of the research and potential risks
- What you and your clients should know
- Medicating Bipolar disorder
- Current “gold standard” treatment and side effects
- Anticonvulsant and antipsychotic use in Bipolar disorder
- Anticonvulsant side effects
- Risks of medication non-compliance
- New! Controversial concepts in treating Bipolar spectrum
- Medicating anxiety
- Benzodiazepines
- Non-benzodiazepines
- Medications used to treat insomnia
- Using anxiolytics safely
- Side effects of the anxiolytics
- How antipsychotics medications are thought to work
- Conventional antipsychotics
- Second generation agents
- Antipsychotic side effects
- Relapse and non-compliance
- Antidepressants and suicide in children: The real truth
- Medicating anxiety in children
- Disruptive mood dysregulation disorder – the new pediatric bipolar disorder?
- The evolution of psychostimulants
What’s Next: Newly Approved Mental Health Medications
THOMAS SMITH, PD, LMHC, NCP, FAPA, BCCP
Tom Smith, P.D., LMHC, NCP, FAPA, BCCP, is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, a Doctor of Pharmacy, a Board Certified Clinical Counselor, holds Fellow status in both the American Psychotherapy Association and the American Society of Consulting Pharmacists, as well as Diplomate Status in the American Psychotherapy Association.
Tom has spoken on Bipolar Disorder, the DSM-5®, and psychopharmacology throughout the United States, and has had Adjunct Associate Professor Academic Appointments at the Butler University School of Pharmacy and Health Sciences and the Saint Louis University School of Graduate Nursing, as well as having been Faculty at the University of Phoenix.
Tom is internationally published on the topic of Aromatherapy, and has just completed his book on Psychopharmacology. He maintains an active private practice in Martinsville, Indiana, where he works with clients of all ages.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Tom Smith maintains a private practice. He will address ‘off-label’ uses of commercial products. Mr. Smith is a speaker who receives an honorarium for PESI, Inc.
Nonfinancial: Tom Smith is nationally published on the Americans with Disabilities Act and receives no compensation.
Tom has spoken on Bipolar Disorder, the DSM-5®, and psychopharmacology throughout the United States, and has had Adjunct Associate Professor Academic Appointments at the Butler University School of Pharmacy and Health Sciences and the Saint Louis University School of Graduate Nursing, as well as having been Faculty at the University of Phoenix.
Tom is internationally published on the topic of Aromatherapy, and has just completed his book on Psychopharmacology. He maintains an active private practice in Martinsville, Indiana, where he works with clients of all ages.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Tom Smith maintains a private practice. He will address ‘off-label’ uses of commercial products. Mr. Smith is a speaker who receives an honorarium for PESI, Inc.
Nonfinancial: Tom Smith is nationally published on the Americans with Disabilities Act and receives no compensation.
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Credits listed below are for full attendance at the live event only. Certificates of Completion are distributed at the conclusion of the live seminar for those who register prior to the event date and attend the full day. A letter of attendance will be issued to participants who register at the event, arrive late, or leave early. For those who registered day of (walk-ins), and are in full attendance, a certificate of completion for full CE credit will be sent within 30 days following the event. For those in partial attendance (arrived late or left early), an adjusted certificate of completion reflecting partial credit will be issued within 30 days (if your board allows). Please see “live seminar schedule” for full attendance start and end times. NOTE: Boards do not allow credit for breaks or lunch.
If your profession is not listed, please contact your licensing board to determine your continuing education requirements and check for reciprocal approval. For other credit inquiries not specified below, or questions on home study credit availability, please contact cepesi@pesi.com or 800-844-8260 before the event.
Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of mental health professionals. As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your professions standards.
PESI, Inc. offers continuing education programs and products under the brand names PESI, PESI Healthcare, PESI Rehab and Psychotherapy Networker.
ADDICTION COUNSELORS
PENNSYLVANIA ADDICTION COUNSELORS: This course has been reviewed and approved for by the Pennsylvania Certification Board. This course will award 6.25 PCB Approved Hours of Education. (Valid for PA locations only)
COUNSELORS
This intermediate activity consists of 6.25 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please save the course outline, the certificate of completion you receive from the activity and contact your state board or organization to determine specific filing requirements.
MARRIAGE & FAMILY THERAPISTS
This activity consists of 380 minutes of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. You should save this course outline, the certificate of completion you receive from the activity and contact your state board or organization to determine specific filing requirements.
NURSES/NURSE PRACTITIONER/CLINICAL NURSE SPECIALISTS
PESI, Inc. is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Nurses in full attendance will earn 6.3 contact hours. PARTIAL CONTACT HOURS WILL BE AWARDED FOR PARTIAL ATTENDANCE.
NURSE PRACTITIONERS
This program offers 380 instructional minutes of pharmacology content which is designed to qualify for 6.0 contact hours toward your pharmacology requirement to receive credit. It is your responsibility to submit your certificate of successful completion and a copy of the seminar brochure to your licensing board.
PHARMACISTS
PSYCHOLOGISTS
SOCIAL WORKERS
PENNSYLVANIA SOCIAL WORKERS, MARRIAGE & FAMILY THERAPISTS AND PROFESSIONAL COUNSELORS: This intermediate activity consists of 6.25 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please contact your licensing board to determine if they accept programs or providers approved by other national or state licensing boards. A certificate of attendance will be awarded at the end of the program to participants who are in full attendance and who complete the program evaluation. Full attendance is required; no partial credits will be offered for partial attendance.
OTHER PROFESSIONS
This activity qualifies for 380 minutes of instructional content as required by many national, state and local licensing boards and professional organizations. Save your course outline and certificate of completion, and contact your own board or organization for specific requirements.
If your profession is not listed, please contact your licensing board to determine your continuing education requirements and check for reciprocal approval. For other credit inquiries not specified below, or questions on home study credit availability, please contact cepesi@pesi.com or 800-844-8260 before the event.
Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of mental health professionals. As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your professions standards.
PESI, Inc. offers continuing education programs and products under the brand names PESI, PESI Healthcare, PESI Rehab and Psychotherapy Networker.
ADDICTION COUNSELORS
PENNSYLVANIA ADDICTION COUNSELORS: This course has been reviewed and approved for by the Pennsylvania Certification Board. This course will award 6.25 PCB Approved Hours of Education. (Valid for PA locations only)
COUNSELORS
This intermediate activity consists of 6.25 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please save the course outline, the certificate of completion you receive from the activity and contact your state board or organization to determine specific filing requirements.
MARRIAGE & FAMILY THERAPISTS
This activity consists of 380 minutes of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. You should save this course outline, the certificate of completion you receive from the activity and contact your state board or organization to determine specific filing requirements.
NURSES/NURSE PRACTITIONER/CLINICAL NURSE SPECIALISTS
Nurses in full attendance will earn 6.3 contact hours. PARTIAL CONTACT HOURS WILL BE AWARDED FOR PARTIAL ATTENDANCE.
NURSE PRACTITIONERS
This program offers 380 instructional minutes of pharmacology content which is designed to qualify for 6.0 contact hours toward your pharmacology requirement to receive credit. It is your responsibility to submit your certificate of successful completion and a copy of the seminar brochure to your licensing board.
PHARMACISTS
PSYCHOLOGISTS
SOCIAL WORKERS
PENNSYLVANIA SOCIAL WORKERS, MARRIAGE & FAMILY THERAPISTS AND PROFESSIONAL COUNSELORS: This intermediate activity consists of 6.25 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please contact your licensing board to determine if they accept programs or providers approved by other national or state licensing boards. A certificate of attendance will be awarded at the end of the program to participants who are in full attendance and who complete the program evaluation. Full attendance is required; no partial credits will be offered for partial attendance.
OTHER PROFESSIONS
This activity qualifies for 380 minutes of instructional content as required by many national, state and local licensing boards and professional organizations. Save your course outline and certificate of completion, and contact your own board or organization for specific requirements.
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Your satisfaction is our goal and our guarantee. Concerns should be addressed to PESI, P.O. Box 1000, Eau Claire, WI 54702-1000 or call (800) 844-8260.
ADA Needs
We would be happy to accommodate your ADA needs; please call our Customer Service Department for more information at (800) 844-8260.
Your satisfaction is our goal and our guarantee. Concerns should be addressed to PESI, P.O. Box 1000, Eau Claire, WI 54702-1000 or call (800) 844-8260.
ADA Needs
We would be happy to accommodate your ADA needs; please call our Customer Service Department for more information at (800) 844-8260.
Credit Card Required for online registration | Contact us to redeem Gift Certificates