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DATE: Thursday, June 13, 2024, 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
LOCATION: Alpena Community College – Granum Theatre, 665 Johnson Street, Alpena, Michigan 49707
6.5 SOCIAL WORK CONTINUING EDUCATION (CE) CREDITS
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This training will provide a broad overview of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM). General chapters and prevalent diagnoses (i.e. Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder, etc.) will be discussed, along with how to navigate diagnostic criteria. These introductory topics will be further contextualized by the history of the DSM’s emergence, development, relation to social constructs, and the reliability/validity of diagnostics.
COURSE INSTRUCTOR:
STEVE LOVE, MSW, MPA
Risk Manager, MDHHS State Hospital Administration
Part-Time Instructor, Western Michigan University (WMU) School of Social Work
BIOGRAPHY:
Steve Love is the Risk Manager for the State Hospital Administration of Michigan and is a Social Work instructor at WMU. He is currently a PhD student in the Evaluation, Measurement, and Research Program at WMU, specializing in behavioral health outcomes and evaluation. Prior to his current position, he worked as the Clinical Services Director at Kalamazoo Psychiatric Hospital.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
- Understand the structure of the DSM-5’s diagnostic criteria.
- Identify and describe the general ideas of four major chapters of the DSM-5 (schizophrenia spectrum, mood disorders, personality disorders, and neurodevelopment disorders), and provide one example diagnosis.
- Identify and describe the DSM’s origination and development.
- Identify and describe how psychiatric diagnoses can be viewed through a social construct lens.
COURSE OUTLINE:
8:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. Registration
8:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. What is the DSM?
Introduction
What is a Diagnosis?
Ruling out Medical
History of the DSM
Essential Components of a Psychiatric Diagnosis: Distress, Impairment, and Clinical Utility
10:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. Break
10:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Overview of How to Use Diagnostic Criteria
Overview of the Concept of a Differential Diagnosis
Main Sections/Chapters of the DSM
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. Lunch Break (lunch not provided – attendees are free to leave campus)
1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Social Constructs of a Diagnosis
2:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. Break
2:45 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Application
Clinical Scenarios Presented to Illustrate: Potential Diagnosis, Importance of Distress/Impairment/Clinical Utility, and How Things Could Change When Viewing Information Through Social Construct Lenses
Dangers of Confirmation Bias and Failing to Loop in Medical Team
4:30 p.m. Adjourn
REGISTRATION INFORMATION:
Call or email Genny Grimshaw at (989) 358-7842 or ggrimshaw@nemcmh.org, if you have questions, need more information, or require special accommodations.
Space is limited. Registration closes Monday, June 10, 2024.
Cancellation notice is appreciated.
Bibliography
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4. Kisely, S. R., Campbell, L. A., & O'Reilly, R. (2017). Compulsory community and involuntary outpatient treatment for people with severe mental disorders. Cochrane database of systematic reviews, (3).
5. Maung, H. H. (2016). Diagnosis and causal explanation in psychiatry. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 60, 15-24.
6. Alvarez-Tomás, I., Soler, J., Bados, A., Martín-Blanco, A., Elices, M., Carmona, C., ... & Pascual, J. C. (2017). Long-term course of borderline personality disorder: a prospective 10-year follow-up study. Journal of personality disorders, 31(5), 590.
7. Maj, M. (2018). Why the clinical utility of diagnostic categories in psychiatry is intrinsically limited and how we can use new approaches to complement them. World Psychiatry, 17(2), 121.
COURSE COMPLETION & CONTINUING EDUCATION INFORMATION:
To earn CE credit, social workers must attend the entire course, complete an evaluation, and provide their license number. Certificates of completion will be distributed at the conclusion of the course pending submission of completed course evaluation.
Northeast Michigan Community Mental Health Authority (NeMCMHA), Provider #1767 is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continue Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. NeMCMHA maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 05/19/2022 – 05/19/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 6.5 social work continuing education credits.
For more information about NeMCMHA services and training opportunities, please visit: www.nemcmh.org.
NeMCMHA is funded, in part, by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services