Description
Do you suspect a client may have Bipolar Disorder but feel overwhelmed by the complexity of their clinical presentation?
Are you exhausted from chasing your client’s mood and trying to get out in front of the next crisis?
Catherine Ness – Bipolar Disorder: Integrative Treatment Strategies for Lasting Recovery and Stabilization
Does your client display recurrent mood swings, poor treatment compliance and unpredictable, dangerous impulsivity?
If you’re looking for a clear, comprehensive approach to treating this vulnerable and high risk population, this training is for you!
Watch this recording to discover an integrative approach that goes beyond treating a single mood state and crisis intervention.
You’ll learn innovative, non-medication approaches that combine the most promising researched-based theories into a cohesive treatment guideline to help your clients achieve long-term stabilization.
Packed with tools, tips and handouts, this evidence based, integrative approach will leave your clinical toolbox overflowing with practical interventions, including how to:
Confidently diagnose Bipolar Disorder and differentiate it from similar disorders
Identify prodromal symptoms and patterns that precede mood lability
Motivate your clients to make necessary lifestyle changes for stabilization
Significantly decrease destructive behavior, including self-harm and suicide
Create custom, realistic treatment plans that cater to your client’s strengths
Go beyond “supportive therapy†to help your clients regain control of their mood and, ultimately, their lives.
Handouts
Manual – Bipolar Disorder (3.6 MB) 67 Pages Available after Purchase
Outline
Mood on a Continuum: Conceptualizing the Bipolar Spectrum
Neurobiological underpinnings of Bipolar Disorder
An acute condition or a chronic, progressive disease?
Prognosis: Age of onset, importance of early intervention
Limitations of the research and potential risks
Understanding the bipolar patient
Clinical Assessment: How to Accurately Diagnose a Frequently Misdiagnosed Disorder
DSM-5®: Bipolar I, Bipolar II and Cyclothymic Disorders; specifiers
Manic, mixed and depressive episodes
Current evidence based assessment tools: SCID, MDQ, GBI, CICI3
Do most clients present with depression or mania?
5 key questions to ask at intake
How to effectively gather family mental health history
Tools to detect underreporting of symptoms
â€Unofficial†signs of mood lability
How to recognize psychosis
Differential diagnosis: ADHD, Schizoaffective Disorder, substance abuse and personality disorders
Integrative Treatment Model: Clinical Interventions to Increase Engagement, Stabilize Symptoms and Prevent Relapse
Psychoeducation
Tools to promote acceptance of diagnosis; implications of getting better
Differentiate between moodiness and Bipolar Disorder
Medications and medication compliance issues
Family Therapy
Compliance and communication
Identification of triggers and prodromal symptoms
Create an individualized action plan
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Teach clients how cognition changes with mood
Identification or triggers and prodromal symptoms
Create an individualized action plan
Interpersonal and Social Rhythm Theory (IPSRT)
Sleep hygiene, routine and circadian rhythms
Mood and cognition charting
Grief related to social role changes
Mania Management
Safety assessment
Communication with support network
Frequency of monitoring
Identify and Mange Personal Deficits
How managing deficits decreases relapse
Strategies to improve social connectedness
Common cognitive deficits; their impact on stabilization
Skills for managing cognitive deficits
Clinical Considerations
Suicide and self-harm: Assessing for risk
Crisis Intervention: Which symptoms warrant hospitalization?
Prodromal symptoms: Red flags to listen for in session
Children and adolescents: DMDD v. Bipolar Disorder
Comprehensive, Step-by-Step Case Conceptualization
40 y/o female – depressed presentation, vague history, excessive spending
23 y/o male – hyperverbal, angry, depressed, chronic marijuana use
Faculty
Catherine Ness, MA, LCPC
Catherine Ness MA, LCPC, is a psychotherapist and founder/owner of Affective Counseling, a mental health practice specializing in and committed to mood management. In her 14 years of clinical experience in a variety of settings, Catherine has developed a specialization in and a passion for the treatment of Bipolar Disorder.
Frustrated by the lack of specific interventions available for treating this vulnerable population, she spent years researching and developing an integrative treatment approach with tangible techniques, outside of medication management, that improve the lives of those struggling with this disorder.
Catherine is an experienced speaker who is passionate about educating mental health professionals about Bipolar Disorder; her most recent presentations were with the Veterans Administration in Chicago and the Illinois Mental Health Counselors Association conference in the spring of 2019.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Catherine Ann Ness maintains a private practice. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.
Non-financial: Catherine Ann Ness has no relevant non-financial relationship to disclose.
