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Management of Mental Health Disorders: From the Nursery to the Nursing Home: Controversies in Clinical Care
Co-Sponsored with School of Medicine, SUNY at Stony Brook

Celebrity Cruises' Infinity

7-Night Alaskan Cruise Conference from Seattle, Washington
June 29 - July 6, 2012

14 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits
14 Contact Hours
Course Fee Physicians and doctoral level degrees $695
All Others - Course Fee $450

Course Fee Cancellation Policy
30 days or more - None; 7-29 days - 50%; less than 7 days - 100%

Faculty

Lory E. Bright-Long, M.D., CMD, Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry; Medical Director, Maria Regina Residence, Brentwood, NY; Geropsychiatry Consultant, Long Island State Veterans HomeStony Brook, NY

Dr. Bright-Long graduated from and did Internal Medicine at Medical College of Ohio. She completed a Psychiatry Residency and Geropsychiatry Fellowship at SUNY Stony Brook. She joined the SUNY Stony Brook faculty after the fellowship and developed a Mental Health Teaching Nursing Home program at St. Johnland Nursing Center and cofounded the Long Island Alzheimer Disease Assistance Center. After leaving Stony Brook she was the Director of Geriatric Psychiatry at Pilgrim Psychiatric Center and Director of the John P. Pavilion for Dementia Care at St Johnland Nursing Center. Currently she is the Medical Director of Maria Regina Residence in Brentwood and. the psychiatric consultant at the Long Island State Veterans Home.

As a Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at SUNY Stony Brook she is actively involved in teaching geriatric psychiatry and medical fellows) medical students, nursing under graduate and graduate students, dental students, and physician assistant students.

Dr. Bright-Long served the Suffolk County Psychiatric Society as Secretary-Treasurer, Delegate, President, and sat on the Greater Long Island Psychiatry Society Board of Directors. Nationally she was a member of the American Psychiatric Association's Council on Aging and the Committee on Long-Term Care. She was on the initial Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementia Practice Guideline work group and helped develop the manual for nursing home psychiatry.

She has been active with the American Medical Directors Association, chairing the Mental Health Committee of the national Education Committee which created a monograph on mental health documentation in long-term care. She also has been a part of the AMDA Palliative Care Workgroup as it created the Palliative Care toolkit for long term care.

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Physicians, Psychiatrists, Nurses, Physicians Assistants

MANAGEMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH DISORDERS FROM THE NURSERY TO THE NURSING HOME: CONTROVERSIES IN CLINICAL CARE

Overview: This series of lectures is designed to update the primary care physician on common psychiatric conditions and controversies in clinical care throughout the life span. The seminar will be relevant to family practitioners, internists, pediatricians and other physicians and health professionals who manage patients with mental disorders. The topics and related learning objectives follow below.

Program
June 30, 2012
8:00 am-10:30 am
Mental Health in Childhood: Do We Diagnose and Treat Too Much or Too Little?

At the Conclusion of this presentation the participant will be able to:
1. Discuss the incidence and prevalence of pediatric and adolescent mental illness
2. Recognize the difficulties and controversies of diagnosing pediatric psychiatric disorders
3. Demonstrate an understanding of the life-long implications of pediatric mood, emotional and behavioral changes
4. Recognize the concerns of increasing psychopharmacologic use in childhood including off-label use, long-term safety and the social and ethical meaning of pharmacological treatment
5. Develop evidence-based treatment strategies for your practice

At the conclusion of this presentation the participant will be able to:
1. Discuss the implications of psychiatric disorders on an individual pre, peri, and postnatally
2. Define behavioral teratogenesis and perinatal syndromes
3. Explain risks and benefits of somatically treating psychiatric illness during pregnancy
4. Demonstrate an understanding of women’s unique mental health issues

At the conclusion of this presentation the participant will be able to:
1. Discuss the depressive disorder spectrum and diagnostic criteria
2. Develop recognition and office screening protocols of depression
3. Discuss the populations at greatest risk for suicide
4. Discuss suicide recognition and prevention strategies
5. Recognize the controversies associated with antidepressant medications
6. Describe complementary and alternative medicine treatments available to your patients and their risks and benefits

At the conclusion of this presentation the participant will be able to:
1. Define terms associated with sexuality, sensuality, and sexual health
2. Recognize psychiatric and medical conditions which present with sexual dysfunction
3. Understand sexual dysfunction in the context of psychiatric illness
4. Discuss sexual side effects of psychoactive medications and the impact on compliance
5. Discuss the sexual changes associated with normal aging and dementia

At the conclusion of this presentation the participant will be able to:
1. Describe substances of abuse and the presentations across age groups
2. Comfortably use available screening tools for substance abuse recognition
3. Develop cessation and treatment strategies
4. Understand the comorbidity of substance abuse and psychiatric illness

At the conclusion of this presentation the participant will be able to:
1. Define the nosology of mild cognitive impairment
2. Incorporate into an office setting screening tools for cognition and function
3. Discuss dietary and life style strategies which may be cognition-sparing
4. Discuss current trends in pharmacologic strategies for cognition-sparing
5. Define and describe etiologies of delirium and dementia
6. Understand the risk for developing neuropsychiatric symptoms
7. Develop strategies for defining and targeting distressed behaviors
8. Formulate non-pharmacological interventions for distressed behaviors
9. Recognize the benefits and burdens of pharmacological interventions
10. Describe referral sources for caregivers in the community

The School of Medicine, State University of New York at Stony Brook, is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to sponsor continuing medical education for physicians.

The School of Medicine, State University of New York at Stony Brook designates this activity for a maximum of 14 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Accredited status does not imply endorsement by Continuing Education, Inc/University at Sea or ANCC of any commercial products displayed or used with an activity.

Continuing Education for Psychologists

Approval: Continuing Education, Inc. is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Continuing Education, Inc. maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Designation: As an organization approved by the American Psychological Association, Continuing Education, Inc. is offering this activity for a maximum of 14 hours of continuing education credit. APA Standards for Awarding Credit require 100% attendance in all educational sessions to receive any CE credits.

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Conference Sessions generally take place during the days at Sea (depends on program and itinerary) so that conflict with any Ports of Call or evening entertainment is minimized.

(A Convenient Calendar to Check Your Dates)

DATE	PORT OF CALL	ARRIVE	DEPART
Fri Jun 29	Seattle, Washington	-	4:00pm
Sat Jun 30	At Sea Cruising Lectures 9:00am-12noon, 1:00pm - 4:00pm	-	-
Sun Jul 1	Ketchikan, Alaska	7:00am	4:00pm
Mon Jul 2	Tracy Arm Fjord/Sawyer Glacier	6:00am	10:00am
Mon Jul 2	Juneau, Alaska	2:30pm	10:00pm
Tue Jul 3	Skagway, Alaska	7:00am	6:00pm
Tue Jul 3	Cruising Alaska Inside Passage	-	-
Wed Jul 4	At Sea Cruising Lectures 1:00pm - 5:00pm	-	-
Thu Jul 5	Evening in Victoria, British Columbia Lectures 8:00am-12noon	6:00pm	11:59pm
Fri Jul 6	Seattle, Washington	7:00am	-

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