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Learning Objectives, Antidepressant Roundup 2012, TCPR, May 2012

May 1, 2012

After reading these articles, you should be able to…

Sexual and Gender Diversity: Practice Tips

April 1, 2012

Inge Hansen, PsyD Psychologist & manager of the Weiland Health Initiative, Stanford University Dr. Hansen has disclosed that she has no relevant relationships or financial interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.

Patients who identify themselves within the broad category of LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer or questioning) are an increasingly visible population. Research has consistently shown that LGBTQ-identified individuals suffer higher rates of depression, suicide, anxiety, smoking, substance abuse, and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) than the general population.

A Primer on Transgender Care

April 1, 2012

Dan Karasic, MD

Dan Karasic, MD Clinical professor of health sciences, Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco Dr. Karasic has disclosed that he has no relevant relationships or financial interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.

Most psychiatrists have not been specifically trained in treating transgender patients. This is a problem, because as society has become more accepting of sexual and gender diversity, more of your patients are likely to divulge to you their transgender identity.

The Struggles of ‘Coming Out’

April 1, 2012

Loren A. Olson, MD

Loren A. Olson, MD Psychiatrist and author Dr. Olson has disclosed that he receives book royalties from InGroup Press. Dr. Balt has reviewed this article and found no evidence of bias in this educational activity.

Dr. Olson, you are a psychiatrist with a special interest in sexuality, but from a personal perspective, you also wrote a book about your own experience coming out as gay later in life.

Thyroid Function

April 1, 2012

Glen Spielmans, PhD

Glen Spielmans, PhD Associate professor of psychology, Metropolitan State University, St. Paul, MN Glen Spielmans, PhD, has disclosed that he has no relevant financial or other interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.

True thyroid dysfunction can present with symptoms as wide-ranging as depression, mania, psychosis, or poor cognition.

Depression

April 1, 2012

Glen Spielmans, PhD

Glen Spielmans, PhD Associate professor of psychology, Metropolitan State University, St. Paul, MN Glen Spielmans, PhD, has disclosed that he has no relevant financial or other interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) has suddenly begun popping up in both the medical journals and the mainstream media as a potential treatment for treatment resistant depression.

Learning Objectives, Gender and Sexuality, TCPR, April 2012

April 1, 2012

After reading these articles, you should be able to…

CLINICAL UPDATE

Dialectical Behavior Therapy: A Primer

March 1, 2012

Josh Sonkiss, MD

Josh Sonkiss, M. Co-medical director, Behavioral Health Unit, Fairbanks Memorial Hospital Dr. Sonkiss has disclosed that he has no relevant relationships or financial interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.

Marsha Linehan developed DBT to help patients with BPD (Linehan MM, Cognitive Behavioral Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder. New York, NY: The Guilford Press;1993), and over the past two decades it has received strong empirical support.

CLINICAL UPDATE

Differentiating Borderline Personality Disorder from Bipolar Disorder

March 1, 2012

Bernadette Grosjean, MD

Bernadette Grosjean, MD Assistant professor of psychiatry, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA Dr. Grosjean has disclosed that she has no relevant relationships or financial interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) and bipolar disorder frequently co-occur (numbers range from 8% to 18%), although they are distinct clinical entities (Paris J et al, Compr Psychiatry 2007;48(2):145–154). A proper diagnosis guides the most effective treatment, but you’ve probably faced the difficult challenge of diagnosing these conditions, which share several clinical features.