DSM Diagnosis Made Clear: Part 2 Psychosis, mood and Depression
March 19, 2025 06:00 PM – March 19, 2025 08:30 PM Central time
For new clinicians, this is part one of a multi-part series helping new mental health providers simplify their differential diagnosis.
Join us for Part 2 of our comprehensive four-part series designed exclusively for new therapists and clinical social workers! This session focuses on Psychotic Disorders, Mood Disorders, and Depressive Disorders, offering you essential tools to enhance your diagnostic expertise using the DSM 5-TR.
Learn how to diagnose Schizophrenia Spectrum, Mood and Depressive Disorders and how to quickly differentiate among them. Learn key concepts in each of these chapters, as well as what to look for in finding a qualifying episode of symptoms.
After attending, you will earn a Certificate of Completion for 2 hours of Continuing Education. We are approved by the Minnesota Board of Social Work as a Continuing Education provider. Check the requirements of your board, if you are not licensed by the MN BOSW.
About the Knowledge Base:
Join us for a four-part, 8-continuing education hour dive into DSM Diagnosing Made Clear. When you buy the full term you get a Bonus recorded session for 2 hours of independent Study CEs.
Spring:
•February 19: Overview of DSM Diagnosing and Important Concepts: Narrow YourDifferential Diagnosis Quickly and Focus on the Most Likely Diagnosis
•March 20: Overview of Diagnosing: Mood, Psychosis and Depression
•April 23: Overview of Diagnosing: Trauma and Other Stressor-Related DiagnosesCompared with Anxiety,
•May 21: Diagnoses found in children
•Bonus: Diagnoses that require more comprehensive assessment, and what you need to know as a more general practitioner
This series of live Continuing Education is aimed at early-career practitioners. In the first seminar, you will be given a way to quickly narrow down your possible diagnoses, so that you can focus on the differential between the few most likely to be correct. We then spend 2 sessions covering the remainder of the chapters in the DSM that are often diagnosed in adults in general-practice mental health settings. Session 4 will include diagnoses found in children, including the childhood presentation of diagnoses that are also common in adults, like anxiety, as well as those diagnoses that must be diagnosed while the person is a child. Lastly, as a bonus, we will cover diagnoses that are rarely diagnosed in a general practice mental health setting, but which a therapist must be familiar with, so that they can make appropriate referrals.
Future terms of the knowledge Base will include treatment planning, interventions, evaluation, growth and development, behavior in the social environment, diversity, clinical interventions, psychotherapy and case management, social work intervention and service delivery, consultation and collaboration, professional values and ethics, confidentiality, professional development and use of self, dual relationships, boundaries, NASW Code of Ethics and the Minnesota Practice Act.
Across two years, wewill cover the major themes covered in the ASWB Clinical Exam, as well as meetthe Minnesota Board of Social Work CE requirements for two-year licenserenewal. The goal is to help you improve your practice now, and keep you familiar with your MSW education you'll need for the test at the end of yoursupervised practice.
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