Upcoming Clinical Seminars
Each month CMHRC hosts an clinical seminar.
These seminars are designed for mental and physical healthcare providers, educators, and others who work with children, but are open to the general public.
2024 Clinical Seminars
Early 2024 clinical seminars are listed below.
New clinical seminars will be added to the year’s schedule each month.
Please check back monthly for new offerings.
- April 24th, 2024: Differentiating Bipolar & ADHD
- One of the most common misdiagnoses for kids with bipolar disorder is ADHD. Join us for this deep dive into the differences between bipolar disorder and ADHD in terms of symptoms like hyperactivity, impulsivity, and aggression and how they present in each. The presentation will include analysis and discussion of the diagnostic criteria, the role the DSM plays, and will share information from the works of Dr. Charles Popper and Dr. Demitri Papolos (author of The Bipolar Child).
We have a very special series coming in May and June 2024!
Check back for details soon.
- July 24th, 2024: Temperature Dysregulation, Fear of Harm’s Biological Marker
- This seminar is a follow-up to our May and June clinical seminars on the newly identified phenotype dubbed Fear of Harm, or FOH for short. It’s groundbreaking feature is the symptoms of temperature dysregulation. We’re taking a deep dive into this biological marker and examining how to understand and manage it to promote better mood stability and overall mental health. Join us for an in depth look at this paradigm shift in the process of diagnosing mental illness and how it can be rooted in the biological and physiological.
2024 Completed Clinical Seminars
- January 24th, 2024: Helping the Helpers, Self-Care for Mental Health Providers
- We’re called “Helping Professionals” for a reason and helping others is at the center of every mental health provider’s purpose. But, the dramatic increase in need for mental health services is putting unprecedented pressures on mental healthcare workers. It’s important to remember that we can only help our clients and patients when we’re also taking care of ourselves. Join us for a supportive seminar on how to gently and efficiently engage in meaningful self-care as we set ourselves up for a successful year.
- February 28th, 2024: The Myth of Misbehavior: Differentiating Misbehavior from Symptoms in Children and Teens (recording will be available to the general public on our YouTube page on April 1st)
- We often hear parents, teachers, and other adults use words like, “chose,” “refused,” and “decided”, when talking about the behavior of kids and teens, as in “the child decided to misbehave”. But, in many cases, the child in question is dealing with symptoms over which they have no control and they lack the coping skills necessary to manage them. Join us for this deep dive into differentiating misbehavior from symptoms of mental illness, hone your skills, learn more effective interventions, and get tips on how to coach the parents you work with on understanding this key distinction.
- March 27th, 2024: Can Kids Have Bipolar? How to Recognize and Diagnose Bipolar in Kids (recording will be available to members only through April 30th)
- Many practitioners have been taught that kids under 16 or 18 years old can’t have bipolar disorder. But that’s simply not true. With different symptom manifestation from adults it can be hard to recognize if you don’t know what to look for. Come join us for a review of symptoms and a discussion on how to integrate this knowledge into your clinical practice.