The Confident Clinician Series
Part 1 "ASSESSING Patients with Complicated Clinical Presentations" focuses on practical, immediately implementable, evidence-based approaches to assessing, diagnosing and engaging our most complicated psychiatric patients.
Part 2 "TREATING Patients with Complicated Clinical Presentations" focuses on the science-based step-wise management approach to patients with complicated psychiatric presentations.
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Learning Objectives
As a result of this course, healthcare providers will be able to:
- Define "complicated", including current concepts regarding comorbidity and concurrent disorders.
- Explain epidemiology and heritability, which supports an accurate and comprehensive diagnosis.
- List the evidence supporting psychiatric clinical screening tools and how to integrate those tools into your practice.
- Interpret the evidence-based approaches to patients with multiple psychiatric comorbidities (E.g. bipolar disorder + ADHD/ personality disorder), psychiatric and physical comorbidities (E.g. pain/ cardiac/inflammatory disorders + depression) and concurrent disorders (combined mental illness and substance use disorders).
- Formulate treatment outcome goals.