In this companion course, Dr. Schuyler will present the various formats in which he has worked with cancer patients. He will focus on what he has learned: about cancer, relating to oncologists, deference, inferences, and the most common emotional disorder seen in this group. He will contrast his work in a university setting with that of a private oncology practice. Then, he will discuss stages of cancer and its treatment that are relevant to adjustment, typical reactions seen in cancer patients, and the difficult time when treatment ends. Issues of reimbursement, will be explored along with the contrasts in both University Setting and Private Practice.

1. Develop sensitivity to the needs, habits, and styles of oncologists in approaching psychological work with cancer patients;
2. Become familiar with the challenges to the individual cancer patient provided by the different stages of the illness; and
3. Develop an approach to the patient with cancer aimed at facilitating a healthy adaptation to the illness.

Dr. Schuyler has been a pioneer in the application of cognitive therapy. A Founding Fellow of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy, his latest focus is aimed at aiding the adjustment of the patient diagnosed with cancer. In this course, he will discuss the thinking underlying the use of cognitive therapy to help the patient with severe medical illness. He will then highlight useful cognitive techniques to aid adjustment to cancer. In time set aside for questions, Dr. Schuyler will encourage clinicians to work with this needy population.

Upon completing this activity, participants will be able to:

1. To apply Cognitive Therapy's usefulness in aiding adjustment to severe illness.
2. Discuss the differences between what cognitive therapy and what it is not.
3. Utilize cognitive therapy techniques for work with cancer patients.

Aggressive behavior is the one of the most common referral problems in child and adolescent psychiatry.

By participating in this activity, attendees will be able to:

1. List the psychiatric conditions that are associated with aggression;
2. Discuss the biological, social and psychological factors underlying the aggressive behavior; and
3. Identify the preventive interventions that will address building the therapeutic alliance with the parents and the adolescent, addressing the cultural issues, treating the comorbid psychiatric conditions etc.

Dreams have been an important aspect of man's search for meaning for over 4000 years. In this seminar, attendees will be exposed to a modern approach to dream analysis, one that integrates the insights and approaches of such luminaries as Freud, Jung, Perls and Hall. Research will be provided to validate the usefulness of using dreams in therapy and the applicability of the "continuity model". Sleep studies will also be used to better understand the stages of sleep and patterns of REM and NREM sleep. Case studies will be presented as well to illustrate a modern approach to helping clients remember and find meaning in their dreams.

Upon the completion of this activity, participants will be able to:

1. Identify benefits of dream work;
2. Review historical models;
3. Present a modern model;
4. Debunk common myths about dreams; and
5. Review relevant research.CA112

Many experts say that the key to treating patients with agitation, aggression and dangerousness is to understand the factors that lead to this behavior and the treatments that are currently available.

By participating in this activity, attendees will be able to:

1. Discuss the etiology of agitative and aggressive feeling and dangerous behavior, and explore how various forms of psychiatric comorbidity increase the likelihood of such behavior;
2. Recognize the effective ways to conduct accurate risk assessments; and
3. Identify various integrated treatments, including cognitive behavioral and other skill-based interventions, to address such behavior.

Increasing numbers of teens and young adults cut, scratch or burn themselves to feel better. Treatment providers (and family members) can inadvertently escalate self-injury unless shown effective ways to support these individuals. Join us in this high-energy, practical session replete with video clips and case examples.

By participating in this activity, attendees will be able to:

1. Explain why individuals self-injure and how "cutting" and "burning" differ from suicide;
2. Learn to screen for self-injury; and
3. Learn practical and effective "strategies" to use with individuals who engage in this harmful behavior.

Treating patients who suffer from Anorexia and/or Bulimia can cause psychiatrists and psychotherapists tremendous frustration or great satisfaction. Successful treatment of Eating Disorders requires a complete understanding of the multiple etiologies involved, the psychotherapies required and the sophisticated use of psychotropic medications. We will focus in this session on the keys optimizing clinical outcomes and achieving remission based upon the biopsychosocial etiology of these disorders. We will identify the factors that result in failure and frustration, as well as the keys to successfully reach appropriate treatment goals.

By participating in this activity, learners will be able to:

1. Understand the multimodal treatment necessary for the successful treatment of these biopsychosocial disorders.
2. Enhance their ability to successfully utilize cognitive/behavioral psychotherapeutic techniques within a dynamic understanding of Anorexia and Bulimia.
3. Update their ability to successfully utilize psychopharmacologic agents to treat Eating Disorders.

Spirituality and religion are important aspects of life. While research indicates that clients want providers to ask about these areas of their lives, however, mental health providers are often ill-prepared to do so. This course will expose participants to several different mnemonic tools which are useful in interviewing clients about religion and spirituality. Special focus will be on the ChaMB mnemonic, an interviewing tool developed by the presenter for use with patients facing existential crises in their lives (i.e. death of a loved one; terminal illness; chronic illness etc.). Case examples will demonstrate the utility of this tool in both in-patient and out-patient settings.

Upon the completion of this activity, participants will be able to:

1. Provide mnemonic to help clinicians interview patients having experienced traumatic events;
2. Contrast with other tools to conduct spiritual interview; and
3. Use case material to illustrate efficacy.
4. Review relevant research findings

Increasing numbers of teens and young adults cut, scratch or burn themselves to feel better. Treatment providers (and family members) can inadvertently escalate self-injury unless shown effective ways to support these individuals. Join us in this high-energy, practical session replete with video clips and case examples.

By participating in this activity, attendees will be able to:

1. Explain why individuals self-injure and how "cutting" and "burning" differ from suicide;
2. Learn to screen for self-injury; and
3. Learn practical and effective "strategies" to use with individuals who engage in this harmful behavior.

For the first time in a decade, youth suicide is on the rise.

By participating in this activity, attendees will be able to:

1. Identify two new trends in youth suicide and why they are so troublesome;
2. List both the subtle and obvious factors leading to suicide in children and teens-including the "Big 3"; and
3. Describe the four essential parts of suicide screening of youth.

This introductory lecture will review the history of Hypnosis and its use in medical and psychiatric conditions. Common misconceptions about Hypnosis will be discussed as well as an introduction to hypnotic phenomena. Lastly, vignettes will be presented demonstrating the application of Hypnosis in several clinical conditions.

Upon the Completion of this activity, participants will be able to:

1. Discuss the common misconceptions about Hypnosis with patients and clients and to present the use of Hypnosis in such a way that will set the stage for a more successful outcome with this modality.
2. Use an understanding of the hypnotic phenomena and suggestibility tests to decide if Hypnosis may be a useful intervention for a given patient or client.
3. List the clinical uses of Hypnosis and to be able to apply this therapy to a wide range of medical, psychiatric, and psychotherapeutic settings.

Iraq and Afghanistan veterans are returning home. Because so many are reservists, they will be coming back into civilian life.The prevalence of mental health disorders in these returning veterans is significant and very different in the clinical presentation than others with such conditions as PTSD. This seminar will address the identification of those veterans and their families in need, clinical interventions, and problems/solutions that therapists may face in providing services at all stages of the war experience, pre-deployment, deployment, and the return home.

By participating in this activity, participants will be able to:

1. Understand the importance of providing psychological, social, and/or psychiatric support for families of servicemen and service women in the different phases of War.
2. Appreciate the need for varied services (including addressing legal issues) to be delivered in different settings, including schools, work, places of worship, etc.
3. Gain further knowledge treating multiaxial aspects of the serviceman or service woman- and their families.

Competent health care providers have to deal with many different aspects of their patients' lives - from social issues, financial issues, relationship issues, and cultural issues. Integrative therapies also address all of these areas. The application of Integrative therapies (which used to be known as "Complementary and Alternative Therapies") is now getting much more commonplace and is gaining in some areas of medicine greater acceptance. Your patients may be using herbs, meditation, massage, acupuncture, and aromatherapy because they believe that these integrative therapies may improve their health. As there are potential benefits and risks of these integrative therapies, whether they are being substituted for medications and/or psychotherapy or being used along with medications and/or psychotherapy, aspects of potential liability are also reviewed.

Upon the completion of this activity, participants will be able to:

1. Have knowledge of several Integrative Therapies your patients may be incorporating into their overall mental health care.
2. See how the paradigm of patient care may be shifting to include the use of Integrative Therapies and what some of the barriers are.
3. Understand how knowing- or not knowing- that your patient may be employing Integrative Therapies may have legal implications.

This course takes attendees on a provocative journey into the nature of happiness and the search for a novel framework for conceptualizing human nature - the human matrix. Practical ramifications for unstalling stalled treatment planning, enhancing the therapeutic alliance, preventing suicide, and creating a "tough resiliency" in both patients and clinicians are described in detail with clinical case examples.

By participating in this activity, attendees will be able to:

1. 1) Explain the concept of the human matrix model in everyday clinical practice, from engaging patients to treatment planning;
2. Discuss a unique definition of happiness and its implications for nurturing a resilient and "tougher happiness" and a more powerful style of treatment planning; and
3. Apply the principles of the "Human Matrix Model" for treatment planning, including healing matrix effects, damaging matrix effects, and the Red Herring Principle.

The very common problem of partnered women who lose their desire for sexual behavior (HSDD) is addressed by understanding the nature of sexual desire, psychological intimacy, women's biology and the frequent transitions that occur within their lives. HSDD is an active arena of pharmacological research.

Upon the completion of this activity, participants will be able to:

1. Understand the individual, interpersonal, biological, and cultural aspects of sexual desire problems and their solutions.
2. Take a thorough history to estimate the patient's sexual desire situation.
3. Separate HSDD in women with ovarian function and those who are menopausal.
4. Appreciate the differences between a disorder model and a problem model.

This lecture synthesizes the concepts of love as a shifting nuanced series of nine ideas and vital interpersonal processes and skills. It emphasizes that temporary emotional disconnections are inevitable and elucidates the mechanisms that limit love's capacity to endure and flourish.

By participating in this activity, attendees will be able to:

1. Understand what love is and what it is not;
2. Recognize the universal aspects of connection-disconnection-reconnection as an inherent characteristic of long-term relationships;
3. Stimulate thoughts about the capacity of love relationships to generate symptoms that are often diagnosed and treated without reference to their likely origin; and
4. Provide a background for the other sexual topics in this lecture series.

The practice of psychiatry can be a source of both great satisfaction and great stress.

By participating in this activity, attendees will be able to:

1. Identify professional goals;
2. Recognize the steps for recovering from burnout and avoiding burnout altogether; and
3. Discuss the management of career-specific stressors, and how they can achieve balance between their personal and professional lives to maximize satisfaction.

This lecture explores the phenomenon of limited male sexual interest and its relationship to the diagnosis of HSDD. It attempts to develop clinical sophistication and skepticism so that mental health professionals can efficiently decode patient presentations of low libido.

Participants should be able to:

1. To understand the separate roles of drive, motivation, and internalized cultural values in shaping sexual desire.
2. To realize that low sexual desire is quite clinically common in all psychiatric settings but HSDD is not.
3. To approach male sexual dysfunction with sophistication-desire and arousal problems are not always distinct-and skepticism-men lie about their sexual lives.

Part 1 of this 2-part course is titled "Five Secrets for Uncovering Hidden and Taboo Material." This informative and insightful talk discusses innovative techniques for increasing validity while exploring sensitive material such as suicidal ideation.

By participating in this activity, attendees will be able to:

1. Recognize the following five interviewing techniques for increasing validity: the behavioral incident, shame attenuation, gentle assumption, symptom amplification and denial of the specific;
2. Discuss the theory behind the use of these five techniques for uncovering valid information when exploring sensitive areas such as domestic violence, substance abuse histories and antisocial behavior; and
3. Describe and flexibly weave the above five validity techniques into effective methods of uncovering sensitive material while maintaining a powerful engagement.

Part 2 of this 2-part course is titled "An Innovative Method for Eliciting Suicidal Ideation-the Chronological Assessment of Suicide Events." This informative and insightful talk discusses the practical application of the interview strategies for eliciting suicidal ideation and behavior in different psychiatric settings.

By participating in this activity, attendees will be able to:

1. Recognize the role of 4 specific interviewing techniques for improving the validity of elicited suicidal ideation while decreasing errors of omission and optimizing engagement;
2. Define the theory and practical application of a specific interview strategy for the elicitation of suicidal ideation and behaviors: the Chronological Assessment of Suicide Events (CASE approach); and
3. Discuss and flexibly utilize the above approach as a sensitive and rapid method of uncovering suicidal ideation and intent in a busy clinic or hospital setting.

Sexual excesses, particularly among men, have been known to exist since antiquity. The rise of the Internet and its exploding technologies have created frequent requests by wives and patients themselves for help with the loss of control over sexual behaviors. While not yet a DSM diagnostic category, the treatment of sexual addiction syndromes require a sophisticated clinical knowledge of sexual and general mental disorders.

Upon the completion of this activity, participants will be able to:

1. To be able to interact with patients without countertransference moral revulsion.
2. To be able to focus on the sexual excesses as the clinical problem rather than the associated psychopathology.
3. To understand the allure of pornography for normal individuals and for those with sexual excesses.