Understanding Diagnoses: Applying DSM-5 Text Revision Updates within Efforts to Support System Involved Youth

Rachel Michaelsen

Training Description

The DSM-5 was recently updated and now includes changes in criteria to diagnoses and new diagnoses. Learn how these changes may impact system involved youth and services and support they receive. Training participants will also learn how the DSM addresses diagnostic cultural considerations which are essential to appropriately serving system involved youth.

Learning Objectives

Participants will be able to:

1. Define a mental health disorder according to the DSM;

2. Differentiate between a culturally bound syndrome and a DSM diagnosis;

3. Identify three changes in the DSM-5 TR that impact system involved youth; and

Agenda 

9:30-9:45am  Introductions

9:45-10:00am  The History of Mental Health Categorization

10:00-10:30am  Definition of a Mental Health Disorder

10:30-11:00am  Cultural Bound Syndromes, Cross-Cultural Presentation, Cultural Formulation Interview

11:00-11:15am  BREAK (CEUs will not be offered for this time)

11:15-11:30am  Structural of the DSM-5-TR

11:30-11:45am  Chapters of DSM-5-TR

11:45am-12:10pm  Diagnoses New to DSM-5-TR

12:10-1:00pm Diagnoses – Review and Updates

                                      ·   Neurodevelopmental Disorders

                                      ·    Schizophrenia Spectrum and Psychotic Disorders

1:00-1:30pm  LUNCH (CEUs will not be offered for this time)

1:30-3:30pm  · Bipolar and Related Disorders

                             · Depressive Disorders

                             · Anxiety Disorders

                             · Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders

                             · Trauma and Stressor-Related Disorders

                             · Dissociative Disorders

3:30-3:45pm  BREAK (CEUs will not be offered for this time)

3:45-4:15pm  · 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

4:15-4:30pm  Integration Vignettes or Case Presentation/diagnosing 

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 diagnoses, clinical supervision, law and ethics, childhood psychopathology, time management, vicarious traumatization, energy psychology and more at universities, conferences, and mental-health agencies.

This course meets the qualifications for (6.0) 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.