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Dementia: Behavioral Health Assessments & Interventions for Practitioners
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Product Details
Format:
DVD Video - 4+ hours   Instructions
Length:
5 hr 36 min
Details:
Multi-disc video recording with electronic manual and instructions
Author:
JAMES BEAUREGARD, PHD
Publisher:
Vyne Education
Copyright:
4/24/2015
CE Available:
Yes, See CE credit tab for complete continuing education details
Product Code:
DVD020067
Objectives
  • Describe current standards of practice in dementia evaluation
  • Identify easy-to-learn screening instruments for dementia that are useful in daily clinical practice
  • Compare evidence-based nonpharmacological and pharmacological interventions for dementia
  • Determine common ethical dilemmas in working with the elderly and how to manage them
  • Articulate strategies for reducing risk of licensing board complaints when working with individuals with dementia and their families
  • Integrate healthy cognitive aging across the lifespan
Outline

 

Dementia: What We Are Dealing With Today

  • Aging across the lifespan
  • Case study: Mrs. D goes to the doctor
  • The facts
  • Dementia in the DSM-5®: Not just cognitive
  • Dementia and the brain
  • Neuropsychology of dementia
    • Cognitive
    • Affective
    • Psychosocial
  • Major dementia types
    • Alzheimer's Disease
    • Vascular Dementia
    • Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration/FTD
    • Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy: A New Frontier

 

Dementia Assessment: Catching It Early, Getting It Right

  • Why dementia is often underdiagnosed and untreated
    • Early detection is critical
  • Medical, neurological, and psychiatric assessment
    • Rule out medical conditions that mimic dementia
    • Brain imaging: CT, MRI, functional neuroimaging
  • Neuropsychological assessment of dementia
    • Detailed clinical history
    • Estimates of premorbid functioning
    • Major domains psychological functioning
    • Neuropsychological tests
    • Diagnostic impression
    • Treatment recommendations
  • Psychosocial assessment of dementia
    • Home safety
    • Driving
    • Psychosocial support
    • Social activity/interaction
    • Exercise
  • Apraxia: So important, so often missed
    • What is apraxia?
    • Assessment of apraxia
  • Brief screening instruments you can start doing tomorrow

 

Ethics & Dementia Care

  • Board complaints vs. lawsuits
  • Steps to reduce risk
    • Consult, consult, consult!
    • Document, document, document!
    • Ethical, legal, and clinical always go together
    • Risk never goes away completely
    • Identify high risk cases
    • Ethical decision making steps
    • Peer consultation groups
    • Record keeping
    • Release of records
    • Responding to subpoenas
    • Guardianship process and the clinician
  • Safety vs. Freedom: What to do?
    • IL/AL/LTC
    • Driving
    • Guns
    • Elder Abuse
    • Capacity/Competency
  • My elder client committed suicide: What should I do?
    • Suicide and elderly
    • Clinicians and suicide
    • Is dementia a terminal illness?

 

Pharmacological & Nonpharmacological interventions for Dementia

  • Behavioral and psychiatric symptoms in dementia (BPSD): What clinicians can do
    • Aggression
    • Agitation
    • Apathy
    • Depression
    • Psychosis
  • Additional problematic behaviors as intervention targets
  • Sexualized inappropriate behaviors and dementia (SIBD)
  • Primary prevention: preventing symptom emergence
  • Pharmacological interventions
    • Acetylcholinesterase inhibitors
    • Memantine (Namenda)
    • Antidepressants
    • Anti-anxiety agents – don't
    • Mood stabilizers
    • Antipsychotics
    • Future directions for medications
  • Nonpharmacological interventions
    • DICE: Describe, investigate, create, evaluate
    • Why are nonpharmacologic interventions underutilized?
    • Behavioral, environmental, and caregiver interventions
    • Distraction and redirection
    • Activity and exercise
  • Treating pain to reduce BPSDs
  • What about all that other stuff?
    • Homeopathic remedies
    • Additional therapies
    • Current evidence and what’s on the horizon?
Author

JAMES BEAUREGARD, PHD

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Social Workers - Florida: Vyne Education, LLC. is an approved provider with the Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling Provider #50-466. This educational offering is approved for 6 continuing education credits.


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Audience
  • Psychologists
  • Psychiatrists
  • Counselors
  • Social workers
  • Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners
  • Psychiatric Nurses
  • Marriage and Family Therapists
  • Pastoral Counselors
  • Occupational Therapists
  • Case Managers
  • Nursing Home Administrators
  • Geropsychiatry Unit Administrators
  • Specialists Working with the Elderly