0.50 CME Credits. Learn to mitigate aggression in psychiatric practice in this webinar. You will gain expertise in understanding, treating, and preventing challenging behaviors in children and adults.
In this episode, we will discuss why assessment discrepancies arise, how we can manage them, and what these discrepancies tell us about a patient’s symptoms and response to treatment.
If your practice is like mine, things are chaotic for our kids returning to school this fall after two distressing years. Diagnosis is more complicated, so for this issue we picked subjects that can expand your diagnostic acumen.
Nine years after DSM-5, Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) is still settling into clinical practice. Dr. Jennifer Thomas helps sort out the differential diagnosis between ARFID, anorexia, and other conditions and plan treatment in the context of comorbid conditions, such as anxiety disorders and Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Second-generation antipsychotics routinely breach the FDA’s level of concern of >7% body weight gain. This article examines the efficacy and safety of using off-label medications, such as metformin, to manage this side effect.