This webinar is intended to highlight some of the unique behavioral health challenges faced by older adults, as well as their families and others who care for them. Topics to be discussed include mood and anxiety disorders, somatoform disorders, and dementia.
Free training
Audience: for psychologists, behavioral health and licensed mental health professionals
Instructional Level: Intermediate
Instructors: Dr. Steven Wengel, Dr. George Blankenau
This training is approved for 2.75 continuing education (CE) credits for psychologists* and Nebraska LMHP/LIMHP. Credits will be awarded to participants who attend the entire training.
*Continuing education for psychologists may be used by other licensed behavioral health professionals. Please check with your licensing board. Continuing education credit is granted on a one credit per one instructional hour basis.
The University of Nebraska Public Policy Center (NUPPC) is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The NUPPC maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
OBJECTIVES
- Explain how mood and anxiety disorders may present differently and need different treatment strategies in older adults.
- Describe how different forms of dementia are diagnosed and treated.
- Identify the prevalence of common behavioral health disorders in residents of long-term care facilities and the need for more services for this population.
Sponsored by the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services Division of Behavioral Health and the University of Nebraska Public Policy Center.
There are no personal or professional relevant conflicts of interest in relation to this presentation.