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On-Demand: Anxiety: Advanced Techniques for Psychiatry and Primary Care

Registration Opens: Mar 8, 2021Course Closes: Feb 8, 2028

This medical conference provides advanced guidance on how to treat and manage patients who have anxiety disorders. In mental health and primary care practices, patients with anxiety disorders are not only common, but they also they often need more of your time and resources to manage their conditions. There are many evidence-based pharmacologic and behavioral treatment options, yet practice measures show that patient outcomes often do not meet expected or desired levels of improvement.

Available Credits: 14.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ 14.00 Nursing Contact Hours 14.00 Social Workers 14.00 Participation 14.00 Psychologists CE Credit Register For This Course

Course Details

This medical conference provides advanced guidance on how to treat and manage patients who have anxiety disorders. In mental health and primary care practices, patients with anxiety disorders are not only common, but they also often need more of your time and resources to manage their conditions. There are many evidence-based pharmacologic and behavioral treatment options, yet practice measures show that patient outcomes often do not meet expected or desired levels of improvement.

During this event, our faculty focuses on advanced concepts that go far beyond the basics. Their guidance is 100% practical and ready for use in any primary care and mental health setting.

Re-energize your practice and apply new skills to:

  • Enhance how you use cognitive interventions.
  • Address multiple specific comorbidities, such as sleep, cardiac, and GI disorders.
  • Use advanced psychopharmacology for all anxiety disorders and related conditions.
  • Navigate medical conditions affected by anxiety, and vice versa.
  • Improve outcomes for patients who have anxiety.

This is an ideal event for all clinicians in primary care practices that treat patients who have anxiety. It is also ideal for psychiatrists, psychologists, nursing professionals, and others on their practice teams.

Pricing

All participants: $595

Course Summary

Available Credits:14.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ 14.00 Nursing Contact Hours 14.00 Social Workers 14.00 Participation 14.00 Psychologists CE Credit
Course Topic:Anxiety, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Course Format:On-Demand Course
Target Audience:

This program is intended for:

  • Psychiatrists
  • Psychologists
  • Primary Care and General Practice Physicians
  • Registered Nurses
  • Nurse Practitioners
  • Social Workers and Allied Health Professionals
Registration Opens: Mar 8, 2021
Course Closes: Feb 8, 2028
Cost: $595.00

Learning Objectives

  • Identify rational, evidence-based pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic therapies for patients with anxiety disorders.
  • Demonstrate the ability to discuss second- and third-line treatments following an unsuccessful first SSRI trial.
  • Discuss the developmental trajectories of anxiety.
  • Compare the assessment, psychopharmacology, and evidence-based psychotherapies for panic disorder, PTSD, OCD and related disorders, and somatoform disorders.
  • Review the course of medical conditions as they are affected by anxiety.
  • Recognize advanced CBT strategies and when to apply them.
  • Describe the neural circuits involved in producing anxiety.
  • Discuss the genetic and environmental contributions to anxiety
  • Provide additional pharmacological options for anxiety when initial plans fail.
  • Identify conversion disorder and describe its genesis, progression, and treatment
  • Demonstrate the ability to engage patients in mindfulness and relaxation procedures
Register For This Course

We have a dedicated staff member who is available by phone 5 days per week between 8 am and 5 pm by calling 866-644-7792 or email at mghcme@mgh.harvard.edu. All inquiries will be dealt with in a timely  (within one business day) and professional manner. Requests for credits or refunds will be reviewed by the Director of the Division of Professional and Public Education, Massachusetts General Hospital. Please refer to our cancellation policy for additional information.”