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CLINICAL UPDATE

Who's Who? A Review of Delusional Misidentification Syndromes

October 1, 2022

Adrienne Grzenda, MD. Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine and Olive View UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA. Dr. Grzenda, author for this educational activity, has no relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

You have probably encountered patients who adamantly insist a loved one has been replaced by an impostor. Here are tips for how to treat them.

EXPERT Q&A

A Primer for Psychiatrists on Subpoenas

October 1, 2022

Ashley H. VanDercar, MD, JD.

Ashley H. VanDercar, MD, JD.

Psychiatrist, Northcoast Behavioral Healthcare, Northfield, OH.

Dr. VanDercar, expert for this educational activity, has no relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

Subpoenas can be tricky. You must balance your legal duties to comply with your obligations to your patients confidentiality. To make things even more complicated, not all subpoenas are valid. Dr. VanDercar walks us through the steps to follow when we receive a subpoena.

EXPERT Q&A

Paraphilic Disorders

October 1, 2022

Brian Holoyda, MD, MPH, MBA

Brian Holoyda, MD, MPH, MBA

Forensic psychiatrist, Portland, OR.

Dr. Holoyda, expert for this educational activity, has no relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

Paraphilias, eg voyeurism and exhibitionism, are intense and recurrent sexual interests and
behaviors that involve atypical objects or activities. They become disorders when they put people at risk of harm or cause distress or impairment. Dr. Holoyda reviews the latest
treatments for these disorders and discusses approaches for working with registered sex
offenders on psychiatric units.

EXPERT Q&A

Assessing Suicide Risk in the Older Adult

October 1, 2022

Yeates Conwell, MD

Professor, vice-chair, and co-director at the Center for the Study and Prevention of Suicide and director of the geriatric psychiatry program, University of Rochester, NY. Director, Office for Aging Research and Health Services, University of Rochester Medical Center.

Dr. Conwell, expert for this educational activity, has no relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

Dr. Yeates Conwell discusses how to assess suicide risk and provides examples on how to intervene.

Minimizing the Use of Seclusion and Restraints

July 1, 2022

Daryl Knox, MD

Daryl Knox, MD

Associate Professor, Louis Faillace Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. Houston, TX.

Dr. Knox has disclosed no relevant financial or other interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.

How can we reduce the use of seclusions and restraints while keeping staff and patients safe? Dr. Knox gives us a detailed overview of these interventions and shares strategies to minimize their use, including by changing hospital cultures and norms.

Tarasoff: Making Sense of the Duty to Warn or Protect

January 7, 2022

Ahmad Adi, MD, MPH. and Victoria Hendrick, MD.

Ahmad Adi, MD, MPH. Senior Instructor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campu

Hendrick, MD.Editor-in-Chief of the Carlat Hospital Psychiatry Report. Chief, Inpatient Psychiatry, Olive View UCLA Medical Center.

Dr. Adi and Dr. Hendrick have disclosed no relevant financial or other interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.

Do we have a duty to warn, or a duty to protect? And what’s the difference?

Implementations of Tarasoff in the U.S.

December 9, 2021

If you don’t work in California, does Tarasoff apply to you? Most states have adopted similar or modified versions of Tarasoff. In 26 states and Puerto Rico, Tarasoff applies much the same way as it does in California in that the duty is mandatory—ie, you may face civil liability, fines, or other penalties if you fail to warn/protect a potential victim.

Decisional Capacity

May 21, 2021

Erick Cheung, MD

Erick Cheung, MD

Associate Medical Director, UCLA Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital. Chief Quality Officer, Department of Psychiatry, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA. Dr. Cheung has disclosed no relevant financial or other interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.

Patients sometimes refuse necessary, even lifesaving, treatments. How do we know they are making informed and reasonable decisions? Dr. Cheung summarizes key points in evaluating patients’ decisional capacity.

CLINICAL UPDATE

Deliberate Foreign Body Ingestion

April 12, 2021

Adrienne Grzenda, MD, PhD.

Adrienne Grzenda, MD, PhD. Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine and UCLA-Olive View Medical Center. Dr. Grzenda has disclosed no relevant financial or other interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.

Why would anyone deliberately swallow a nondigestible object? What items require emergent removal, vs simple monitoring? And how can you help patients who repeatedly swallow foreign bodies?

Modern Challenges of Delusional Disorder

September 3, 2020

Joseph Pierre, MD.

Joseph Pierre, MD. Chief, Hospital Psychiatry Division at the VA West Los Angeles Healthcare Center. Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at UCLA. Dr. Pierre has disclosed that he has no relevant financial or other interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.

Delusional disorder may be in the psychotic chapter, but it doesn’t respond to antipsychotics like we’d expect. Joseph Pierre reviews how to use them, which ones to avoid, and how to enhance your therapeutic relationship with this population.