2-Day Certificate Course on The Aging Brain, Alzheimer’s Disease, and Other Dementias: Accurately Diagnose Dementing Conditions, Skillfully Manage Difficult Behaviors and Mental Health … – Roy D. Steinbergv
- Clearly understand how to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease and differentiate it from other dementias
- Easy-to-use tools that assess for possible cognitive difficulties and identify underlying psychological conditions
- Get the most effective interventions for coping with combativeness, depression, and other difficult behaviors
- Powerful strategies for successfully working in collaboration with caregivers and family
- Explore the latest medications and preventative treatments related to cognitive decline
Working with people suffering with dementia can feel overwhelming. You worry because your patients’ needs aren’t clearly communicated and you need a better way to reach them. Difficult behavioral issues like depression, agitation and resistance often get in the way of your ability to provide optimal care. Interventions and techniques that worked yesterday, don’t work today. Distressed families have a litany of questions and concerns, and you’re the one who needs to give the difficult answers. You even need to work with patients and their spouses regarding uncomfortable personal matters like sexual intimacy – issues they didn’t teach you about at school.
Roy D. Steinberg, PhD, is a gero-psychologist and nationally recognized speaker for professionals and laypersons on the assessment and treatment of individuals with Alzheimer’s disease. He has spent the last 30 years immersed in the Alzheimer’s and dementia field, providing evaluation, consultation, and psychotherapeutic services to older adults as well as outpatient consultation, education, and counseling services to their families and caregivers. Through his work, Dr. Steinberg has perfected the recipe of what works and what doesn’t with dementia patients and acquired the hands-on skills, techniques, and solutions you need to handle the challenges, answer your questions, and provide the best care possible.
In this critical workshop Dr. Steinberg will bring to life the tools, strategies, and therapeutic practices you need to best serve your older adult patients facing Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, as well as significant mental health issues such as depression and anxiety. Return to your practice better able to evaluate, assess, and differentiate between different types of dementias and recognize underlying psychological conditions. Broaden your understanding of medications and preventative treatments, and understand their impact on older patients and your practice. Walk away with practical and easy-to-implement tools that effectively intervene in depression, anxiety, aggression and other psychological and behavioral presentations. Learn to put a game plan in place that maximizes support for patients in partnership with caregivers and family members.
Key benefits of watching:
- Gain a clear understanding of the diagnostic criteria for Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias.
- Sidestep problem behaviors – identify and understand triggers for delusions, resisting care, and anxiety.
- Up-to-date behavioral interventions to manage agitation and elopement, reduce risks, and allow you to adapt treatment as the disease progresses.
- Tools to recognize the most frequently seen psychological conditions in older adults.
- Therapeutic interventions related to mental health concerns.
- Tips and tactics for working in partnership with families to improve care.
- Learn how to handle sexuality and intimacy issues across the continuum of older adults with confidence and sensitivity.
In an energetic and uplifting style, Dr. Steinberg will draw you into the dire nature of dementia and leave you feeling empowered and eager to use your new skills.
Don’t wait, sign up for this essential course and get your Certificate in The Aging Brain – Alzheimer’s disease, and Other Dementias!
- Explore brain function in older adults, recognize the impact of dementia on brain structure and function, and determine the difference between “normal forgetfulness” and cognitive impairment.
- Diagnose Alzheimer’s disease and distinguish it from other dementias by accurately identifying manifestations of each type and understand how these differences impact diagnosis and prognosis in older adults.
- Articulate differences between the Folstein Mini-Mental Status examination, SLUMS, and MOCA as screening measuring tools for cognitive impairment and dementia.
- Communicate answers to the most difficult questions family members ask regarding diagnosis and prognosis with confidence and sensitivity.
- Detect triggers for delusions, resisting care, and combativeness and learn to defuse problem behaviors with clinical strategies that reduce risks and can be adjusted as the disease progresses.
- Adapt clinical interventions used in-session to provide patients with individualized care and promote more effective participation in therapy.
- Correlate patients’ strengths and limitations to potential therapeutic approaches when developing treatment plans for older adults with mental health issues or dementia.
- Maximize support for your clients with tips and tactics for working in partnership with families to improve care and strengthen the therapeutic alliance.
- Investigate the concept of caregiver guilt and its implications for the client, clinicians, and those caring for older adults with dementia
- Analyze appropriate and inappropriate sexual behaviors in relationships impacted by dementia and effectively intervene when ability to consent is impaired.
- Explore the ethical issues related to dementia and elucidate how end of life issues and elder abuse inform decisions regarding patient responsibility and documentation.
- Effectively employ tools that assess for common mental health conditions found in the geriatric population including alcohol abuse, anxiety, and depression and learn to differentiate dementia from depression despite similar clinical manifestations.
