Courses

Course and Master Course Listings

In-depth, clinically-focused content to equip you with practical skills to help you meet the challenges of daily practice. Held in a small-group setting, attendance is limited.

For full descriptions of courses, including course registration fees, view the Preliminary Program.

• Courses

  Courses are designed to emphasize learning experiences that actively involve participants and include the opportunity for informal exchange with the faculty. Offered in four-hour (half-day), six-hour (full-day) and eight-hour (full-day) sessions, courses either review basic concepts in a special subject area or present advanced material on a circumscribed topic. Participants must purchase tickets to attend.

  Saturday, May 5, 2018

  The Clinical Assessment of Malingered Mental Illness

  Director: Phillip Resnick, M.D.

  8:00 a.m. – Noon
  Javits Center

  Motivational Interviewing as a Core Communication Style for Psychiatrists

  Director: Michael Flaum, M.D.

  8:00 a.m. – Noon
  Javits Center

  Evidence-Based Psychodynamic Therapy: A Pragmatic Clinician’s Workshop

  Director: Richard Summers, M.D.

  8:00 a.m. – Noon
  Javits Center

  Sleep Medicine: A Review and Update for Psychiatrists

  Director: Thomas Hurwitz, M.D.

  8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
  Javits Center

  Neuropsychiatric Masquerades: Medical and Neurological Disorders That Present With Psychiatric Symptoms

  Director: Jose Maldonado, M.D.

  8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
  Javits Center

  Disaster Psychiatry Review and Updates: Terrorist Mass Killing, Climate Change, and Ebola

  Director: Joshua Morganstein, M.D.

  1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
  Javits Center

  Good Psychiatric Management for Borderline Personality Disorder

  Director: Brian Palmer, M.D.

  1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
  Javits Center

  Emergency Psychiatry: The Basics and Beyond

  Director: Kimberly Nordstrom, M.D.

  1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
  Javits Center

  Sunday, May 6, 2018

  Treating Narcissistic Personality Disorder: Transference-Focused Psychotherapy

  Director: Frank Yeomans, M.D.

  8:00 a.m. – Noon
  Javits Center

  Sex Compulsivity and Addiction: Research, Diagnosis, and Treatment

  Director: Kenneth Rosenberg, M.D.

  8:00 a.m. – Noon
  Javits Center

  Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Severe Mental Disorders: Building Treatment Skills That Work

  Director: Jesse Wright, M.D.

  8:00 a.m. – Noon
  Javits Center

  Mind-Body and Breath Techniques for Stress, Anxiety, Depression, PTSD, Military Trauma, and Mass Disasters: Lecture and Experiential

  Director: Patricia Gerbarg, M.D.

  8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
  Javits Center

  Assessment and Management of Autism and Associated Psychopathology

  Director: Gagan Joshi, M.D.

  8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
  Javits Center

  The National Neuroscience Curriculum Initiative (NNCI): Integrating Neuroscience Into the Clinical Practice of Psychiatry—a Practicum

  Director: Melissa Arbuckle, M.D.

  12:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
  Javits Center

  Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Psychiatrists: A DBT Toolkit for Treating BPD

  Director: Beth Brodsky, M.D.

  12:30 p.m. – 4:30 PM
  Javits Center

  Monday, May 7, 2018

  Mild Neurocognitive Disorders: Improving Detection, Diagnosis, and Early Interventions

  Director: James Ellison, M.D.

  8:00 a.m. – Noon
  Javits Center

  Risk Assessment for Violence

  Director: Phillip Resnick, M.D.

  8:00 a.m. – Noon
  Javits Center

  Talking With and Listening to Your Patients About Marijuana: What Every Psychiatrist Should Know

  Director: Henry Levine, M.D.

  8:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
  Javits Center

  Acute Brain Failure: Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, Management, and Sequelae of Delirium

  Director: Jose Maldonado, M.D.

  1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
  Javits Center

  Working With Couples and Families When a Loved One Has Neurocognitive Impairment

  Director: John Rolland, M.D.

  1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
  Javits Center

  Tuesday, May 8, 2018

  Psychiatrist as Expert Witness: The Ins and Outs of Being a Forensic Consultant

  Director: Phillip Resnick, M.D.

  8:00 a.m. – Noon
  Javits Center

  Integrating Technology and Psychiatry

  Director: John Luo, M.D.

  8:00 a.m. – Noon
  Javits Center

  Practical Psychodynamics to Enhance Outcomes in Pharmacological Treatment Resistance

  Director: David Mintz, M.D.

  8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
  Javits Center

  Eating Disorders and Obesity for the General Psychiatrist

  Director: Evelyn Attia, M.D.

  1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
  Javits Center

  Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Children and Adolescents and Never Had the Chance to Ask

  Director: Laura Mufson, M.D.

  1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
  Javits Center

  Wednesday, May 9, 2018

  Conversion Disorder: Update on Evaluation and Management

  Director: Gaston Baslet, M.D.

  8:00 a.m. – Noon
  Javits Center

  Sleep Disorders and Psychiatry: What Should Mental Health Care Provider Know for Patient Care

  Director: Karim Ghobrial-Sedky, M.D.

  8:00 a.m. – Noon
  Javits Center

  Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

  Director: John Markowitz, M.D.

  8:00 a.m. – Noon
  Javits Center

  Updates in Geriatric Psychiatry

  Director: Rajesh Tampi, M.D.

  8:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
  Javits Center

  Psychiatric Disorders in Pregnant and Postpartum Women: An Update

  Director: Shaila Misri, M.D.

  1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
  Javits Center

  Evaluation and Treatment of Sexual Dysfunctions

  Director: Waguih Ishak, M.D.

  1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
  Javits Center

  Rhythm and Blues: An Introduction to Interpersonal and Social Rhythm Therapy (IPSRT)

  Director: Holly Swartz, M.D.

  1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
  Javits Center

• Master Courses

  These in-depth courses are designed to broaden and enhance your professional skills and knowledge in special areas and include applicable publications from American Psychiatric Association Publishing.

  Saturday, May 5, 2018

  Buprenorphine and Office-Based Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder

  Director: John Renner, M.D.

  8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
  Javits Center

  Educational Objectives:

  1. Discuss the rationale and need for medication-assisted treatment (MAT) of opioid use disorder;
  2. Apply the pharmacological characteristics of opioids in clinical practice;
  3. Describe buprenorphine protocols for all phases of treatment and for optimal patient/treatment matching;
  4. Describe the legislative and regulatory requirements of office-based opioid pharmacotherapy; and
  5. Discuss treatment issues and management of opioid use disorder in adolescents, pregnant women, and patients with acute and/or chronic pain.

  Sunday, May 6, 2018

  Pediatric Psychopharmacology

  Director: Karen Wagner, M.D.

  8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
  Javits Center

  Educational Objectives:

  1. Provide an update on recent advances in psychopharmacology for major disorders;
  2. Discuss in detail approaches to the treatment of autism;
  3. Review recent studies on the pharmacogenetics of antidepressant response;
  4. Provide a rational basis for selection of medications for bipolar disorder; and
  5. Discuss the efficacy and side effects of antipsychotic agents.

  Monday, May 7, 2018

  Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation: Clinical Applications for Psychiatric Practice

  Director: Richard Bermudes, M.D.

  8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
  Javits Center

  Educational Objectives:

  1. Explain the mechanism of action of TMS;
  2. Identify appropriate patients for TMS;
  3. Identify the risks and side effects of TMS;
  4. Review the specifications of FDA-cleared TMS systems; and
  5. Discuss innovations in TMS therapy.

  Tuesday, May 8, 2018

  Essential Psychopharmacology

  Director: Alan Schatzberg, M.D.

  8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
  Javits Center

  Educational Objectives:

  1. Provide an update on recent advances in psychopharmacology for major disorders;
  2. Discuss in detail approaches to the treatment of autism;
  3. Review recent studies on the pharmacogenetics of antidepressant response;
  4. Provide a rational basis for selection of medications for bipolar disorder; and
  5. Discuss the efficacy and side effects of antipsychotic agents.

  Wednesday, May 9, 2018

  Practical Cognitive Behavior Therapy

  Director: Jesse Wright, M.D.

  8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
  Javits Center

  Educational Objectives:

  1. Describe the core principles of cognitive behavior therapy (CBT);
  2. Detail methods for structuring and pacing sessions to enhance the effectiveness of CBT;
  3. Recognize CBT methods for spotting and changing dysfunctional automatic thoughts;
  4. Describe behavioral strategies for depression and anxiety; and
  5. Identify CBT methods for reducing suicide risk.