Earn up to 7 certified Mainpro+® credits
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This is part 1 of "The Confident Clinician Series"
This program focuses on practical, immediately implementable, evidence-based approaches to assessing, diagnosing and engaging our most complicated psychiatric patients.
If you are interested to learn how to Treat Patients with Complicated Clinical Presentations, visit part 2 of the Confident Clinician Series, which focuses on the science-based step-wise management approach.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this program, you will be able to:
- Identify "complicated", including current concepts regarding comorbidity and concurrent disorders.
- Interpret epidemiology and heritability, which supports an accurate and comprehensive diagnosis.
- Evaluate 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. Interpret the difference between older and newer psychotropic medication.