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New Skills for
Frazzled Professionals:
Lessons from Neuroscience on Hard-to-Treat Patients -- Resistant ADD, Memory Loss Refractory Depression,
Difficult Couples, and Other Challenging Problems
Daniel Amen, M.D.
 Complex psychiatric patients are becoming the norm for mental health practitioners. The straightforward patients are being
treated by primary care physicians, and experienced mental health practitioners are routinely seeing patients with 2-5 DSM-IV diagnoses. In order to be effective with complex cases it
is essential to move beyond the DSM-IV diagnostic labels and include brain system pathology in the mix of understanding.
In this workshop, clinical neuroscientist Daniel Amen will give comprehensive strategies for dealing with complex diagnoses and treatment resistant patients. Participants will review
essential neuroscience principles and will consider a variety of specific techniques and interventions based on them. The workshop will include numerous examples and case histories from Dr. Amen’s practice.
Participants will learn how to take a brain science history and then use that history in diagnosis and treatment. Aging-related problems, complex ADD, bipolar spectrum
disorders, substance abuse, and even difficult marriages will be among topics covered. Participants will learn about memory problems and how to prevent them, and about the
day-to-day environmental factors that prevent patients from getting well.
This workshop will be fun, fast-paced and filled with many, many practical suggestions that you will be able to apply immediately in your office.
Topics Covered
- Why Mental Health Professionals Get Frazzled
- A General Strategy for Complex/Resistant Cases (Consider the Brain)
- Making Diagnoses Beyond DSM-IV, Brain Science in Action
- 5 Reasons People Do Not Get Better
- How Imaging Can Help Practitioners Be More Effective
- How the Brain Influences Behavior and How Behavior Influences the Brain
- A Review of Brain Systems, Functions and Problems
- Resistant ADD: When Stimulants Make ADD People Worse and What to Do
- Resistant Depression: Beyond SSRIs to More Targeted Treatment
- Intractable Anxiety: Calming the Root Cause
- Memory Problems (is it normal aging or Alzheimer’s) and How to Prevent Them
- Difficult Couples and the Brain
- Relapsing Substance Abusers – What Are They Really Treating?
- Mirror Neurons and the Latest Neuroscience that You Need to Know
- E-mail May Make You Stupid and Other Environmental Factors that Impair Healing
- Future Treatments Emerging to Help Complex Patients
Workshop Objectives
After attending this workshop, participants will be better able to:
- Complete differential diagnoses of complex clinical cases
- Choose from specific interventions based on an integration of neuroscientific and other diagnostic data
- Explain how both negative and positive thoughts directly affect brain function
- Assist in both the treatment and prevention of memory problems
- Work more effectively with intractable anxiety, depression, and other problems
- Discuss emerging treatments and prevention strategies
Workshop Information
Check-in begins at 7:45 AM and the workshop hours are 8:30 AM - 4:00 PM with lunch on your own from 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM. There will be two fifteen minute breaks.
Earn 6 CE/CME Hours
Current Dates and Locations
Please see Calendar Page
Registration Information
$179 Early registration (sent 14 days prior to workshop)
$199 Regular registration (on-site reg. is $219, space available)
Aide positions must be filled by phone, fax or mail. Please call for availability.
To register by phone call 800-258-8411. Or register online on the Calendar Page
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