Evolving Trends in Psychology: Integrated Care

Cosponsored with the Metropolitan State University Department of Psychology

Full Day Program - Six Continuing Education Credits

Friday, October 5, 2018 - 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Metropolitan State University, St. Paul Campus Auditorium, 700 East Seventh St., St. Paul, MN 55106

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About the Program

PLEASE NOTE: You must attend the full 6-hour program to get continuing education credit for the event.

The presentation will outline challenges and opportunities of psychological practice in the integrated care environment. Constructs and clinical issues will be illustrated with pertinent case examples.

This workshop is geared to behavioral health clinicians seeking information about how to position themselves to become essential team members in an integrated healthcare setting. Different models of integrated care practice and consultation will be reviewed. Medical, pharmacological, and psychosocial management of conditions that commonly present in the integrated care setting will be addressed, along with discussion of administrative and financial issues that are common in the integrated care setting.

The workshop is applicable to psychologists and other related behavioral health practitioners working in all types of settings where health services are provided.

This session is at the intermediate level and is designed for psychologists and other mental health professionals.

Participants will be able to:

  1. Describe diagnostic specific intervention tools in primary care.
  2. Explain differences between collaborative care, co-located care and integrated models of mental health delivery.
  3. List challenges associated with training in the integrated care environment.
  4. Apply knowledge of billing and coding issues in integrated care, and discuss economic challenges facing providers in integrated care systems.
  5. Articulate issues surrounding the use of the electronic health record by mental health practitioners.
  6. Discuss disease-specific interventions for obesity, heart disease and hypertension that may be employed by the behavioral health consultant.

Schedule:

8:30 a.m.              Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:00 a.m.              Program Begins

10:15 a.m.            Break

10:25 a.m.            Next Topics

12:00 p.m.            Lunch (box lunches will be served in the New Main building adjacent to the auditorium)

1:00 p.m.              Program

2:25 p.m.               Break

2:35 p.m.               Program

4:00 p.m.               Adjourn/pick up CE certificates

About the Presenter:

Morgan T. Sammons, Ph.D., ABPP, is the Executive Officer of the National Register of Health Service Psychologists. He is a retired Captain in the US Navy. In his naval career, he served as the Navy’s Clinical Psychology Specialty Leader and Special Assistant to the Navy Surgeon General for Mental Health and Traumatic Brain Injury. In 2006-2007, CAPT Sammons deployed with the 1st Medical Battalion, 1st Marine Expeditionary Force, to Fallujah, Iraq, in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Earlier in his naval career, Dr. Sammons helped implement the first integrated care demonstration project in military medicine. Following his retirement from naval service, Dr. Sammons served as Systemwide Dean of the California School of Professional Psychology. He was appointed Executive Officer of the National Register in 2014.

Registration Details:

Pricing MPA Member Non-Member Student
Early Bird Registration - Register by September 21 $115 $130 $30
Regular Registration - Register after September 21 $125 $155 $30

Registration includes 6 continuing education credits, a continental breakfast, a boxed lunch, and a CE certificate.

Online registration is now closed. Walk-up registrations welcome!

Click here for a printable flyer and registration form.

REFUND POLICY: A 100% refund will be made if the event is cancelled. Refunds, less a $5 handling fee, will be given if a written cancellation is received at least two working days before the scheduled program begins. Transfer of fee to another program is granted if written cancellation notice is received at least one day before the program. No refund or transfer is given the day of the program.

ACCESSIBILITY ACCOMMODATIONS: If you need disability related accommodations, including parking, to make this event accessible, please contact the Metropolitan State University Center for Accessibility Resources, 651-793-1549, or [email protected].

PLEASE NOTE: You must attend the full 6-hour program to get continuing education credit for the event.