Depressive Disorders - FPN

Suicide Assessment, Treatment, and Management

As a mental health professional, you know that suicide is a major public health concern. Death by suicide claims more than 40,000 lives each year in the United States, out numbering deaths by homicide. This course sharpens your clinical skills and helps you prevent suicide by knowing the risk factors and routinely assessing the individuals you treat.

Purchase the 6 credit Suicide Assessment, Treatment and Management, CE course, add Ethical Considerations in the Assessment and Management of Suicide Risk , a 1 credit CE course, use promo code FreeEthics (case sensitive) during checkout, and receive Ethical Considerations in the Assessment and Management of Suicide Risk FREE.

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1.  Screening for Depression - (PHQ-2)
The PHQ-2 is very sensitive and specific in predicting depression in adults.
AMERICAN FAMILY PHYSICIAN

2.  Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9)
In addition to helping to make the diagnosis of depressive disorders, the PHQ-9 is also a reliable and valid measure of depression severity. These characteristics plus its brevity make the PHQ-9 a useful clinical tool.
JOURNAL OF GENERAL INTERNAL MEDICINE

3. Diagnosing Depression in Adolescence
This video focuses on using motivational interviewing techniques to identify and
address depression in adolescents.
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS

4. Treating Major Depressive Disorder: A Quick Reference Guide
This guideline focuses on the interventions and activities that should be initiated and provided during all phases of depression treatment.
AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION (APA)

5. Medications to treat Major Depressive Disorder
This website lists the medications that are in some way related to, or used in the
treatment of depression.
DRUGS (dot) COM

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EMDR Therapy: Treating Anxiety

POPULAR, 4 CREDIT, ONLINE CE COURSE

EMDR therapy is a psychotherapy approach based on standard procedures and protocols. This program focuses on applying EMDR therapy to anxiety-related conditions such as specific phobias and panic disorder, using EMDR therapy's standard procedures and protocols as its template. The scripts distill the essence of the Standard EMDR Protocols and reinforce the specific parts, sequence, and language used to create an effective outcome.

The CE course is for practitioners who have had some experience with EMDR, and it is designated as intermediate to advanced.

6. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Mood Disorders: Efficacy, Moderators and Mediators
Cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) is efficacious in the acute treatment of depression and may provide a viable alternative to antidepressant medications.
PSYCHIATRIC CLINICS OF NORTH AMERICA

7. Seasonal Affective Disorder
Seasonal affective disorder is a combination of biologic and mood disturbances with a seasonal pattern, typically occurring in the autumn and winter with remission in the spring or summer.
AMERICAN FAMILY PHYSICIAN

8. Telepsychiatry as Part of a Comprehensive Care Plan
This case scenario concerns a patient with severe symptoms, an elevated risk for self-harm, and limited access to care. With its tragic ending, the case raises several questions.
AMA JOURNAL OF ETHICS

9. Collaborative Care to Improve the Management of Depressive Disorders
Collaborative care is a multi-component, healthcare system–level intervention that uses case managers to link primary care providers, patients, and mental health specialists.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PREVENTIVE MEDICINE

10.  Depression as a Major Component of Public Health for Older Adults
In older adults, depression may be characterized by impairment in cognition, a syndrome sometimes referred to as pseudodementia, and by psychomotor agitation or retardation.
CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL (CDC)

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