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Digital Seminar

Dementia: Behavioral Health Assessments & Interventions for Practitioners


Faculty:
James Beauregard, PhD,
Duration:
5 Hours 36 Minutes
Format:
Audio and Video
Copyright:
Apr 24, 2015
Product Code:
WDS020067
Brochure Code:
WDBHDMNTIA
Media Type:
Digital Seminar
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Description

Promote Healthy Cognitive Aging Across the Lifespan!
Every 67 seconds, someone develops Alzheimer's disease. Five million Americans live with Alzheimer's disease—and this number increases when other types of dementia are included. The number of individuals with Alzheimer's disease and other types of dementia will increase dramatically in the coming decades as the baby boomers get older and live longer. During the course of their illness, many individuals with dementia experience significant affective and behavioral difficulties that create stress for families and caregivers who provide over 17 billion hours of care to individuals with dementia each year. Many of these individuals come to the attention of mental health clinicians as patients and families seeking assistance, intervention, and guidance in coping with the illness.

Dr. James Beauregard provides clinicians with evidence-based knowledge and tools for addressing the numerous problems that arise for individuals and their families dealing with dementia. Participants will discover cutting-edge research in Alzheimer's disease and other dementias, including current research on early detection, biomarkers, and neuroimaging technologies, as well as assessment tools and techniques for early identification of dementia. Attendees will walk away with strategies to address problematic behaviors in dementia, support individuals contending with a new dementia diagnosis, coordinate care with other professionals, and work with families as they struggle with the many challenges that emerge in dementing illness.

 


Course Content

 

Dementia: What We Are Dealing With Today

  • Aging across the lifespan
  • Case study: Mrs. D goes to the doctor
  • The facts
  • Dementia in the DSM-5®: Not just cognitive
  • Dementia and the brain
  • Neuropsychology of dementia
    • Cognitive
    • Affective
    • Psychosocial
  • Major dementia types
    • Alzheimer's Disease
    • Vascular Dementia
    • Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration/FTD
    • Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy: A New Frontier

 

Dementia Assessment: Catching It Early, Getting It Right

  • Why dementia is often underdiagnosed and untreated
    • Early detection is critical
  • Medical, neurological, and psychiatric assessment
    • Rule out medical conditions that mimic dementia
    • Brain imaging: CT, MRI, functional neuroimaging
  • Neuropsychological assessment of dementia
    • Detailed clinical history
    • Estimates of premorbid functioning
    • Major domains psychological functioning
    • Neuropsychological tests
    • Diagnostic impression
    • Treatment recommendations
  • Psychosocial assessment of dementia
    • Home safety
    • Driving
    • Psychosocial support
    • Social activity/interaction
    • Exercise
  • Apraxia: So important, so often missed
    • What is apraxia?
    • Assessment of apraxia
  • Brief screening instruments you can start doing tomorrow

 

Ethics & Dementia Care

  • Board complaints vs. lawsuits
  • Steps to reduce risk
    • Consult, consult, consult!
    • Document, document, document!
    • Ethical, legal, and clinical always go together
    • Risk never goes away completely
    • Identify high risk cases
    • Ethical decision making steps
    • Peer consultation groups
    • Record keeping
    • Release of records
    • Responding to subpoenas
    • Guardianship process and the clinician
  • Safety vs. Freedom: What to do?
    • IL/AL/LTC
    • Driving
    • Guns
    • Elder Abuse
    • Capacity/Competency
  • My elder client committed suicide: What should I do?
    • Suicide and elderly
    • Clinicians and suicide
    • Is dementia a terminal illness?

 

Pharmacological & Nonpharmacological interventions for Dementia

  • Behavioral and psychiatric symptoms in dementia (BPSD): What clinicians can do
    • Aggression
    • Agitation
    • Apathy
    • Depression
    • Psychosis
  • Additional problematic behaviors as intervention targets
  • Sexualized inappropriate behaviors and dementia (SIBD)
  • Primary prevention: preventing symptom emergence
  • Pharmacological interventions
    • Acetylcholinesterase inhibitors
    • Memantine (Namenda)
    • Antidepressants
    • Anti-anxiety agents – don't
    • Mood stabilizers
    • Antipsychotics
    • Future directions for medications
  • Nonpharmacological interventions
    • DICE: Describe, investigate, create, evaluate
    • Why are nonpharmacologic interventions underutilized?
    • Behavioral, environmental, and caregiver interventions
    • Distraction and redirection
    • Activity and exercise
  • Treating pain to reduce BPSDs
  • What about all that other stuff?
    • Homeopathic remedies
    • Additional therapies
    • Current evidence and what’s on the horizon?

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Social Workers - California

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Social Workers - Florida

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Handouts

Faculty

James Beauregard, PhD, Related seminars and products


JAMES BEAUREGARD, PhD, is a Clinical Neuropsychologist with over 20 years of experience working with the elderly in the diagnosis and treatment of dementia. He works in a geropsychiatry practice providing outpatient neuropsychological evaluations and consultation to inpatient neuropsychiatry, inpatient rehabilitation medicine in the general medical floors at two large community hospitals. He is a graduate of Northeastern University, Boston, and completed neuropsychology fellowship training at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in the departments of neurology and psychiatry, and at Fairlawn Rehabilitation Hospital, Worcester, Massachusetts. Dr. Beauregard is a member of the National Academy of Neuropsychology, the New Hampshire Psychological Association, in the International Neuroethics Society. He is a past member, and chair of the New Hampshire Psychological Association Ethics Committee. He teaches Neuropsychology in the PsyD program at Rivier University in Nashua, New Hampshire. He has led ethics Roundtables at the New Hampshire Psychological Association conferences, conducting forums for clinical discussion of contemporary issues in ethics, and providing ethics consultations to clinical practices.

Disclosure:
Financial-Receives a speaking honorarium from Vyne, LLC.
Nonfinancial-No relevant nonfinancial relationships exist.


Additional Info

Program Information

Access for Self-Study (Non-Interactive) Access never expires for this product.

Target Audience

Psychologists, Psychiatrists, Counselors, Social workers, Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners, Psychiatric Nurses, Marriage and Family Therapists, Pastoral Counselors, Occupational Therapists, Case Managers, Nursing Home Administrators, Geropsychiatry Unit Administrators, Specialists Working with the Elderly

 

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Overall:      4.5

Total Reviews: 25

Comments

Ray A - SOUTHLAKE, Texas

"I enjoyed learning from this presenter. He had a relaxed yet informative manner."

Eleanor C - CHARLOTTE, North Carolina

"Excellent training and presenter"

Susan K - HILTON HEAD ISLAND, South Carolina

"Excellent lecturer; very practical information for clinicians. Could have a Part 2 course to go over all the wealth of information included in the handouts"

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