Date: 3/1/2010 - 3/5/2010
Course #: 03024270
Who should attend: psychiatry, psychology, mental health, medicine, pharmacists, pediatrics
Tuition:

	Registration fee	$850.00
	Students and Residents/Fellows in Training Only	$495.00

Location: Ocean Reef Club - Key Largo, Florida, 35 Ocean Reef Drive, Key Largo, FL 33037
Director(s): Lawrence E. Lifson, MD|Carl Salzman, MD
Offered by: BWH-Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry



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Early Registration Cut-off Date December 18, 2009

OBJECTIVE

This course is designed so that participants will be able to:

• Demonstrate and utilize psychotropic drug treatment, with particular emphasis on recent advances and practical prescribing information.

This course will review and update the use of psychotropic drugs. An updated review of neurobiology and brain function will be presented. Specific categories of treatment will include treatment of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression, anxiety, and sleep disorders. The course will address strategies for bipolar patients who are noncompliant or treatment‑resistant; approaches to the acutely psychotic, recovering psychotic patient, and the concept of early intervention. The atypical antidepressants such as bupropion, mirtazapine, nefazodone, and venlafaxine will be discussed as well as augmentation strategies for treatment‑ resistant depression. Psychiatric medications for the elderly will be reviewed, including dosage adjustments for age, drug interactions, and sensitivity to side effects. The role of psychopharmacology in the treatment of obsessive symptoms, panic symptoms, and traumatic syndromes will be emphasized. Pharmacologic approaches to the patient with personality disorders will be discussed. The course will emphasize the establishment and importance of therapeutic alliance when prescribing all psychotropic medications, the interplay between pharmacologic and non‑pharmacologic treatments, benefits and hazards of prescriber/nonprescriber co‑treatment relationships.

This course is supported in part by an unrestricted education grant from OmegaBrite.

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ESSENTIAL PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY, 2010
Ocean Reef Club

Monday, March 1, 2010 ‑ A simplified and clinically relevant review of neurobiology as it applies to clinical psychopharmacology; neurotransmission, synapses, second messengers; gene function.

Tuesday, March 2, 2010 ‑ Biology and treatment of psychotic disorders: the new generation of antipsychotic drugs; clinical aspects of treatment: use of typical and atypical neuroleptics; treatment of psychiatric mania; concept of early intervention and prevention; dual diagnosis.

Wednesday, March 3, 2010 ‑ Depression; Neurobiology of Depression; diagnostic heterogeneity; what constitutes response? value of tricyclics; SSRI’s in perspective; new antidepressants; combination and augmentation strategies; new approaches to the bipolar patient.

Thursday, March 4, 2010 ‑ Anxiety, + panic, + OCD: Which drug, when to use; how much and for how long rational benzodiazepine use; non‑benzodiazepine strategies; use of hypnotics; PTSD; eating disorders.

Friday, March 5, 2010 ‑ Diagnostic diversity and realistic pharmacologic treatment; geriatrics; personality disorders: is there a role for psychopharmacology; dual diagnosis: alcohol/substance abuse and psychiatric disorders; psychotherapeutic issues: dynamic, behavioral, supportive; psychodynamics of prescribing; diverse meaning of medications.

ACCREDITATION

Physicians: Harvard Medical School is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Harvard Medical School designates the Winter Seminars and Weeklong Esalen Seminars for a maximum of 15 and the Weekend Esalen Seminars for a maximum of 10 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Psychologists: The Massachusetts Mental Health Center is approved by the American Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. Massachusetts Mental Health Center maintains responsibility for the program and its content.

Counselors: Massachusetts Mental Health Center is approved by the National Board of Certified Counselors to offer continuing education to participants. All weeklong programs meet the criteria for 15 credit hours. The weekend seminars meet the criteria for 10 credit hours.

Social Workers: For information on the status of the application to the Massachusetts Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers, please call 617‑ 998‑5029 or email: mkmcgona@bidmc.harvard.edu.

Nurses: Massachusetts Mental Health Center is approved by the Arizona State Nurses Association to offer continuing education credits to participants. All week‑long programs meet the criteria for 15 contact hours. The weekend seminars meet the criteria for 10 contact hours.

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists: Application for continuing education credits has been made to the Massachusetts Association of Marriage and Family Therapists.

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