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12th Annual UC Davis Psychotic Disorders Conference
Activity Details
Activity Name: 12th Annual UC Davis Psychotic Disorders Conference
Needs Assessment: While the focus of management of people with psychotic illness has been on symptom control, employment of new models of care delivery including early psychosis specialty care have brought an emphasis on improving functioning in people with serious mental illness. You will receive an update on new approaches from the nation?s leading experts in the field. Lectures will cover recent advancements in the assessment of functioning as well as novel therapies such as cognitive rehabilitation and supported education. This conference will provide new insights from the field of psychiatric neuroscience. Genetics are a major contributing factor to the causes of serious mental illness and there have been major advances in this field over the past few years. These advances will be reviewed by UC Davis? expert psychiatric geneticist. Finally, aggression and violence are rare but serious complications of serious mental illness. We will explore the complex relationship between these two factors as well as new clinical approaches to addressing them.
Course Objectives: At the end of the activity, participants should be able to:
  • Discuss new approaches to medication management for serious mental illness.
  • Assessing and managing the emotions and negative symptoms in schizophrenia.
  • Be familiar with the insights that new advances in our understanding of the genetics of serious mental illness.
  • Analyze the data on adolescent brain development and mental health risks.
  • Recommend interventions for young adults with autism spectrum disorder.
  • Discuss and assess the use of telepsychiatry for remote patient care.
  • Location Information
    Meeting Location: Hilton Sacramento Arden West
    Meeting Location URL: http://www.hilton.com/en/hi/groups/personalized/S/SMFHIHF-UCP-20171105/index.jhtml
    Location Address: 2200 Harvard Street
    Location City: Sacramento
    Location State: CA
    Location Postal Code: 95815
    Location Country: US
    Activity Information
    Start Date: 11/6/2017
    End Date: 11/6/2017
    Meeting Size: 350
    Fees: $300
    Meeting URL: http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/cme/course_pages/PSY/psy_pagelink.html
    Printable Materials: http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/cme/course_pages/PSY/APSYC18-11-6-17e.pdf
    Credit Information
    Credit Amount: 6.5
    Credit Unit: Credits
    Accreditation: ACCME - Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education > AMA PRA Category 1 Credit
    Activity Learning Format: Live Activity
    Accreditor/Sponsor
    Sponsor Name: UC Davis Health, Office of Continuing Medical Education and Women in Medicine and Department of Psychiatry and Behavavioral Sciences
    Sponsor Address: 4610 X St. #2301
    Sponsor City: Sacramento
    Sponsor State: CA
    Sponsor Postal Code: 95815
    Sponsor Country: US
    Sponsor Phone: 916-734-5390
    Sponsor Email: cmereg@ucdavis.edu
    Contact Information
    Contact Name: Vickie Hidalgo
    Contact Email: vmhidalgo@ucdavis.edu

    Type:     Live Activity
    3 Registered Users