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What’s the latest in psychiatry CME online courses? Listen below to some of the country’s leading specialists from institutions such as the American Association for Emergency Psychiatry, University of Iowa Health Care Carver College of Medicine, and UC San Diego Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.

1. Risk Assessment and Management, Part 1: Assessing for Suicidality

Listen to Tony Thrasher, DO, President, American Association for Emergency Psychiatry; Medical Director, Crisis Services, Milwaukee County, Milwaukee, WI discuss how to improve the assessment and management of suicidality in this CME-accredited audio lecture. After listening to this full lecture, you will be better prepared to:

• Differentiate myths about management of suicidality from facts.
• Identify risk factors for suicide.
• Cite factors that protect individuals from suicide.
• Explain the association between mental disorders and suicide risk.
• List effective treatment approaches to suicidality.

2. Update on Borderline Personality Disorder

Join Donald W. Black, MD, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City as he discusses how to improve the diagnosis and management of borderline personality disorder (BPD) in this CME-accredited audio lecture. After listening to this full lecture, you will be better prepared to:

• Explain the criteria for BPD as shown in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (Fifth Edition).
• Screen and assess patients presenting with BPD.
• Optimize the use of psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy in the treatment of BPD.

3. Management of Agitation in the Adult Patient

Tony Thrasher, DO, Medical Director, Crisis Services, Milwaukee County Behavioral Health Division, Milwaukee, WI, and President, American Association for Emergency Psychiatry reviews ways to improve the management of agitation in the adult patient in this CME-accredited audio lecture. Once you listen to the full lecture, you will be better prepared to:

• List principles for the management of agitation included in Project BETA (2012).
• Explain the Broset Violence Checklist rating scale.
• Cite effective techniques of verbal de-escalation.
• Optimize psychopharmacologic interventions in patients with agitation.
• Manage agitation in patients who refuse medication.

4. Clinical Management of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Join Donald W. Black, MD, Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City as he talks about how to improve the diagnosis and management of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in this CME-accredited lecture. After listening to the full lecture, you will be better prepared to:

• Identify the symptoms of OCD as described in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (Fifth Edition).
• Differentiate symptoms of OCD from obsessive-compulsive personality disorder.
• Manage symptoms of OCD using recommended treatments.

5. Clinical Approach to Prescription Drug Abuse

Listen to Nathan A. Painter, PharmD, Clinical Professor of Pharmacy, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, San Diego discuss ways to improve the prevention and treatment of prescription drug abuse in this CME-accredited lecture. Once you listen to the full lecture, you will be better prepared to:

• Detect red flags or yellow flags associated with prescription drug abuse.
• Use prescription drug-monitoring programs to prevent drug abuse.
• Create an opioid agreement or contract to effectively curtail drug abuse.

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