Fri, Feb 18
|Online Event
Understanding Diagnoses to Most Effectively Support System Involved Youth
Rachel Michaelsen, LCSW

Time & Location
Feb 18, 2022, 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM PST
Online Event
About the Event
Rachel Michaelsen
Training Description
When supporting system involved youth who have mental health diagnoses, it is important to understand the origins and meaning of these diagnoses in order to most effectively support these youth and families. In this training, participants will learn about the history of mental health diagnosing, the definition of a mental health diagnoses and cultural considerations as they impact mental health diagnoses. DSM-5 diagnoses that are most commonly used with children, adolescents and young adults will be reviewed in depth. Case vignettes will be used to illustrate diagnoses and there will be time to discuss system involved youth who participants currently support.
Learning Objectives
1. Understand the history mental health diagnoses;
2. Explain how the DSM-5 defines a mental health disorder
3. Integrate the impact of culture on mental health diagnoses
4. Explain how a diagnosis is determined
5. Recall the method for identifying criteria for diagnoses used with children and youth.
6. Apply their knowledge of diagnoses to the system involved you they support
Agenda
9:00 – 9:15am Introductions
9:15 – 9:30am History of Diagnoses
9:30 – 10:00am Definition of a Mental Health Disorder
10:00 – 10:30am Cultural Considerations when Diagnosing
10:30 – 11:45am BREAK (CEUs will not be issued for this time)
10:45 – 11:00am Structural of the DSM
11:00 – 11:10am The Crosswalk DSM-IV to ICD-10/DSM-5
11:10 -11:20am Chapters of DSM-5
11:20am -12:15pm Diagnoses
· Neurodevelopmental Disorders
· Schizophrenia Spectrum and Psychotic Disorders
12:15 – 12:45pm LUNCH (CEUs will not be issued for this time)
12:45 – 2:15pm
· Bipolar and Related Disorders
· Depressive Disorders
· Anxiety Disorders
· Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders
· Trauma and Stressor-Related Disorders
· Dissociative Disorders
2:15 – 2:30pm BREAK (CEUs will not be issued for this time)
2:30 – 3:45pm
· Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders
· Feeding and Eating Disorders
· Elimination
· Gender Dysphoria
· Disruptive, Impulse-Control and Conduct Disorders
· Substance Related and Addictive Disorders
· Personality Disorders
3:45 – 4:00pm Integration Vignettes or Case Presentation/diagnosing
4:00pm Course Eval
Meet Our Trainer
Rachel Michaelsen, LCSW, is a clinical social worker who has worked in HMOs, public agencies, and private practice as both a mental-health provider and a supervisor for over thirty years. She has taught courses in DSM-5, clinical supervision, law and ethics, childhood psychopathology, time management, boundaries, vicarious traumatization and energy psychology at universities, conferences, and mental-health agencies. She has a private psychotherapy practice and is also the Chair of the Humanitarian Committee for the Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology.
This course meets the qualifications for (6) BBS CEUs for LCSWs, LMFTs, LPCCs, and LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences & is provided by Fred Finch Youth Center, CAMFT Provider #045295.