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Managing Psychosis in Community Practice

Learning Objectives:

  1. Explain and interpret the DSM-5 diagnostic criteria for schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorders.

  2. Identify risk factors for early psychosis.

  3. Identify when and how to utilize appropriate psychosis screening and monitoring tools.

  4. Evaluate safety risks for patients and healthcare providers, including risk of violence assessment and suicide risk assessment.

  5. Review and interpret the Canadian Schizophrenia treatment guidelines.

  6. Categorize and compare the unique characteristics of antipsychotic treatments including initiation, dosing, and monitoring.

  7. Describe and interpret the Health Canada indications for antipsychotics with respect to children and adolescents.

By attending this webinar, you will receive CME/CPD credits from:

Earlier Event: March 4
Antipsychotics

Screen the right patients, use the right tools, make the right treatment choices for the benefit of your patients, their families, and your practice.  

You'll leave PsychedUp CME with:
* A plan for conducting highly effective, time-efficient diagnostic interviews.
* A review of the most up-to-date, evidence-based, clinically relevant psychiatric treatments.
* A patient-focused, individualized prescribing plan that will save you time, lessen your clinical burden and relieve your patient's suffering.
* A renewed confidence when managing mental illnesses in your busy practice.