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An increasing number of adolescents and young adults remain mired in depression, often accompanied by irritability and anxiety, in spite of treatment with multiple medications. One reason is that at least 40 percent of them actually have unrecognized bipolar illness. Antidepressants have been shown to be only marginally better than placebo in acute bipolar depression and have been proven ineffective in preventing future depressive episodes in those with bipolar illness. In a subset of bipolar patients, antidepressants can cause increased agitation, more episodes of depression, and can increase the risk of suicide. Effective psychotherapy is difficult, if not impossible, when bipolar patients are misdiagnosed and inappropriately treated with antidepressants.
This seminar will provide clinicians with a four-part, clinical diagnostic method to distinguish patients with borderline personality and major depressive disorder from those with bipolar illness. Clinicians will learn about the medications that should form the foundation of treatment for bipolar illness, including the one medication that has been repeatedly shown to dramatically reduce the risk of completed suicide.
Drawing on research from empirically tested individual and family therapies for bipolar disorder, Dr. Quinn will discuss the many ways psychotherapists can help patients and families struggling with bipolar disorder once patients receive proper pharmacologic treatment. Participants will also learn about drug-free, chronobiologic treatments for depression and bipolar illness. In addition, this presentation has been updated to include current research and statistics.
Sign-In and breakfast: 9:00-9:45am
Welcome and Introduction: 9:45-10:00am
Live Presentation (15-minute break at presenter’s discretion): 10:00am-1:00pm
*NYSSCSW Discount applies to NYSSCSW current members only.
**Student Discount only applies to full time students currently enrolled in social work and MHP master level programs.
Registration is now closed.
Richmond University Medical Center (RUMC)
Sipp Auditorium (located adjacent to main lobby)
355 Bard Avenue
Staten Island, NY 10301
The Advanced Clinical Education (ACE) Foundation of the NYS Society for Clinical Social Work, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0028; licensed mental health counselors #MHC-0045; licensed psychoanalysts #P-0017; licensed psychologists #PSY-0121; and licensed social workers #SW-0056.
Out-of-state providers are welcome to request a certificate upon completion of the presentation evaluation but must check with their own state licensing boards to inquire about whether or not the certificate is recognized as transferrable for CEs in their state’s jurisdiction.
By attending this continuing education activity, participants will be able to:
1. List the four lines of clinical evidence that must be assessed to distinguish bipolar depression from unipolar depression and borderline personality
2. Apply key elements of empirically-tested psychotherapies to the treatment of those with bipolar illness
3. Describe how drug-free chronobiologic interventions can effectively treat depression and mania
4. Recall the only drug repeatedly shown to dramatically reduce the risk of suicide
5. List the four medications (mood stabilizers) shown to prevent new mood episodes in bipolar patients, their indications, and major side effects
6. Explain why the new atypical antipsychotics are not mood stabilizers and should not be used in place of drugs such as lithium
Psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, licensed psychoanalysts, nurse practitioners and family and marriage/couple therapists and mental health counselors.
This seminar is appropriate for clinicians with all levels of experience.
Brian Quinn, Ph.D., LCSW, author of Wiley Concise Guides to Mental Health: Bipolar Disorder and The Depression Sourcebook, 2nd ed., is a clinical social worker in private practice in Melville, New York, and specializes in working with patients with mood illnesses and substance abuse. He is also a Senior Employee Assistance Program Clinician for Northwell Health. He earned his M.S.W at the University of Chicago in 1979 and his Ph.D. in clinical social work at New York University in 1994. Dr. Quinn also has a post-graduate certificate in psychoanalytic psychotherapy from Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City. He is an adjunct instructor in the Department of Psychiatry at Tufts Medical Center and has given seminars on depression and bipolar disorder at hospitals, graduate schools of social work, state societies for clinical social work, and to hundreds of clinicians in the United States through professional seminar companies such as PESI.
Contact Hours will be awarded once the entire course is completed, as evidenced by signing in and out and completing a course evaluation. Certificates will be emailed approximately ten business days after the completion of the course.
ACE welcomes participants with diverse abilities. Please contact Kristin or Debbie at info.acefoundation@gmail.com, at time of registration, to request accessibility accommodations. Accommodation requests are considered in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities ACT (ADA), Section 505 of the Rehabilitation ACT.
Cancellations made at least five days before the event will be fully refunded. For cancellation please call 1-800-288-4279, or email us at info.acefoundation@gmail.com.
Should Inclement weather occur, we will be notifying all registrants via the email by which the registrant signed up. Please be sure to check your email before you leave for the course.
