BRINGING TOGETHER THE ART AND SCIENCE OF CLINICAL DIAGNOSTICS

Dates: Friday, December 2, 2011 and Saturday, December 3, 2011

12 CEUs have been approved for this workshop. 
The approval number is SWP/MFT/LAC-0733-2011

Where: The University of Montana, University Center, 3rd Floor -
ROOM 326.  The UC Center is located off of CAMPUS DRIVE. There are eating facilities in the UC Center.  Plus it MAY be possible to have sandwiches delivered from the Rattle Snake Trading Company.  IF you are interested please send an e-mail (espymso@gmail.com) so we can check with RTC. 

Parking is available in the parking garage and is $3.00 per day.  On Saturday we will have parking vouchers for the day. 

Time: Both days from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Presenter: John Espy, LCSW

As we speak, the words said between us evoke thoughts, images and feelings.  These move along in their own representative sequence.  If we focus only on the semantic meaning of these 'words', we already have a thicket of visuospatial images moving across our field of thought in sequential time.  If we add the dimensions of how we hear the stress, pitch, cadence, duration of the voice, we now open up our unconscious to receive a greater depth of material and expression.

Day One – Friday, December 2, 2011

1. Conducting the comprehensive clinical interview.  An exploration of what needs to be included in collecting and discerning clinically relevant material and formulating your working diagnosis
2. Balancing open-ended and close-ended questioning
3. Recognizing subtle paranoid and psychotic process during the interview
4. Identifying and understanding nonverbal communication
5. Conceptualizing the patient – What does this mean?
6. Understanding how your projections interfere with what you see and don’t see during the consultation process
7. Managing the difficult interview with empathy and persistence

Day Two – Saturday, December 3, 2011

1. Understanding the changes forthcoming in the DSM-5
2. Understanding the basics of psychological and neuropsychological testing in clinical diagnostics
3. How to integrate psychological testing into your clinical understanding of the patient
4. Ferreting out the subtle nuances of diagnostic precision.  For example, clinically discerning the differences between PTSD and TBI.
5. The importance of understanding head injury on personality and behavior
 
We will be using video-taped material as part of the workshop presentation

Cost: Both days $150.00, One day only $75.00.  Make checks payable to:
John C. Espy, LCSW

To register, please send registration fee with complete contact information, including e-mail address and whether you will be attending both days or day one or day two.  Send to: Big Sky Neurobehavioral Consultation, 110 Main Street, Suite 8, Polson, Montana 59860 or call 270-5325 or 270-9225.