Understanding Mental Disorders - DVD only *NO CE - 6 hours

Describes how the brain produces behavior and how learned patterns of behavior become a personality. Lists the personality disorders and explain how they disrupt relationships. Discusses how to diagnose and treat the major anxiety disorders, including dental anxiety, and outline the effects of early life stress, medical disorders, and medications on anxiety. Describes the characteristics of posttraumatic stress disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder and explains why they are no longer grouped with anxiety disorders. Outlines the diagnostic criteria, course, and many treatment options for major depressive disorder and bipolar disorder. Describes how the information in this course can be utilized to improve patient care and patient outcomes. Describes for this course, the implications for nursing, dentistry, mental health, and other health professions.
$69.00

Part 1

  • Elements of Personality: How We Become Who We Are.

  • Cognitive Appraisals: Do We Perceive Reality? Do We Feel the Way We Think?

  • Genes and Mental Disorders: Do we Inherit Abnormal Behavior?

  • Personality Disorders: Three Clusters of Relationship Killers.

  • Worship Me—What I Want, What I Think, and What I Feel: Narcissistic Personality Disorder.

  • What Just Happened Here? The Person with Borderline Personality Disorder.

  • Coping With Difficult Behaviors: Avoidant, Dependent, and Paranoid Personality Disorders.

  • Self-Centered and Guiltless with Loss of Empathy: Antisocial Personality Disorder.

  • Chronic Stress and the Brain: How Self-Defense Turns Into Self-Destruction.

  • Early-Life Traumatic Stress: A Powerful Path to Mental Illness.

     

Part 2

  • Anxiety Disorders: Diagnostic Pitfalls and Treatment Options for Fear Out of Control.

  • Medical Conditions That Can Cause or Mimic Anxiety: Adverting Disaster.

  • Dental Anxiety: Managing the Anxious Dental Patient.

  • Obsessive- Compulsive Disorder: Is this Compulsive Gambling and Hoarding?

  • Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: The Unrelenting Power of Flashbacks; CPT, PET, and EMDR Treatments.

  • Major Depressive Disorder: DSM-5 Criteria; Effects of Hormones, Insomnia, Stress, and Chronic Pain.

  • New Treatment Guidelines for Depression: Medication and Cognitive Therapy.

  • Depression and Suicide: Medication Risks; Postpartum Depression.

  • Complementary Measures to Treat Depression: Exercise, Dietary Strategies, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT), and Vagal Stimulation.

  • Bipolar Disorders: Avoiding Diagnostic and Treatment Pitfalls; Medication and compliance problems.

  • Beyond “Either/Or” Thinking in Treatment: Medications, Mindfulness, and Psychotherapy.

 

Learning Objectives

  1. Describe how the brain produces behavior and how learned patterns of behavior become a personality.
  2. List the personality disorders and explain how they disrupt relationships.
  3. Discuss how to diagnose and treat the major anxiety disorders, including dental anxiety, and outline the effects of early life stress, medical disorders, and medications on anxiety.
  4. Describe the characteristics of posttraumatic stress disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder and explain why they are no longer grouped with anxiety disorders.
  5. Outline the diagnostic criteria, course, and many treatment options for major depressive disorder and bipolar disorder.
  6. Describe how the information in this course can be utilized to improve patient care and patient outcomes.
  7. Describe for this course, the implications for nursing, dentistry, mental health, and other health professions.
Products specifications
Instructor M. Howard, Ph.D.
Contact Hours: 6
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