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Welcome to the Home Study Course sponsored by the Healthcare
Training Institute, mentalhealthce.com. This course deals with treating
the bipolar adult client. Our primary intent for this home study course is
to provide quality education to foster your professional growth. The
Institute has provided quality education since 1979.
Hi. My name is James Brennen. I will be the narrator of this CD
set. We appreciate that you have chosen us as a vehicle for you to earn
your Continuing Education Credit.
The purpose of the course is to assist you in increasing your
knowledge regarding how to treat patients, clients, etc. dealing with Bipolar
adult client. As each case study is given, if the concepts seem to
be applicable to your situation, I encourage you to turn your CD player off
and make a few notes regarding the application of the principle to your setting. However,
these notes are for your purposes only and are not to be sent to the Institute. Also
each track is very content dense. So feel free to replay the track to
review the content either for your own purposes, or if you feel appropriate
play the track in an individual or group session for client education. Also
permission is granted to reproduce this CD. We encourage you to duplicate
give copies of this CD to colleagues, clients, etc. as you deem appropriate.
We feel the information on our CD's is valuable. Thus, we have an interest
in distributing CD's in as many ways as possible, to benefit the greatest number
of people, who have a need and are receptive to this practical information.
The questions in your Answer Booklet are sequential and deal with the section
of content that preceded it. For this reason, to facilitate the answering
of each question, you might read the question from the Answer Booklet
prior to listening to that CD track. By knowing what the question is
ahead of time, you will then know the content to listen for that contains the
answer. So
just a hint, after you write down the answer to a question in your Answer Booklet,
read on to the next question in order to give you a "heads
up" to listen for the content that contains the answer to the next question.
Merely write the correct letter on the corresponding blank line in your answer
booklet. Each answer is only used once. Keep in mind there is nothing trick
or hard about these questions. They are merely intended to verify the
playing of this CD.
For the purpose of brevity, most generally, I will use the term "therapists" or "mental
health professional." However, don’t let these terms deter
you from applying the concepts to your situations. When you hear the
word "therapists," if your job title is social worker, psychologist,
marriage and family therapist, mental health counselor, professional counselor,
resident director, program assistant, etc. merely substitute the appropriate
term that is the most meaningful to you. In short, don’t let my use of
the term "therapists" cognitively set you off track from hearing
the content because your job title is school counselor, for example. I
will also use the term "client" for the purposes of brevity. However,
if you deal with patients, residents, students, consumers, etc., transpose "client" for
the term that is the most meaningful to you in your work setting.
On this CD set we will discuss such topics as: Educating the
Bipolar Client, Treating a Resistant Client, Clients During Psychosis, Predicting
Mania or Depression, Comorbid Conditions, The Sleep-Wake Cycle, Differences
Between the Sexes, Temperamental Disturbances, Suicide, Upbringing, Medication
and Other Treatments, The Effects of Stress, Substance Abuse, and Physical
Health.
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