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LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Improve the skills of the primary care provider to address unique mental health needs of patients in his/her care.
  
• Build collaborative relationships between primary care and behavioral health providers to improve patient outcomes.
  
• Recognize warning signs of suicide in adolescents and identify treatments and follow-up which can reduce likelihood of negative consequences.
  
• Use differential diagnosis for ADHD and bi-polar in children and review pharmaceutical and alternative treatments for children with disorders.
  
• Utilize diagnostic criteria to differentiate types of mood and anxiety disorders and appropriate pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical interventions for these disorders.
  
• Identify management techniques and treatments for patients with addictions to prescription medications.
  
• Identify management techniques for patients with chronic physical health conditions and co-mingled behavioral health conditions including sleep disorders, heart disease, dementia and pain along a continuum.
  
• Manage patient complaining of chronic pain through multidisciplinary approaches.
  
• Identify advantages and disadvantages of integrated models of primary care and mental health treatment.
  
• Identify challenges to provider well-being, maintaining boundaries and identify techniques and methods for finding balance in your life.

SCHEDULE
October 3rd, 2008

October 4th, 2008