Purpose: Audio-Digest Foundation CME/CE activities are designed to provide its learners – physicians and other healthcare professionals – with continuing education that will help identify clinical problems in their practice settings, provide content to help to solve those problems, and increase their application of knowledge to practice.
Audio-Digest Psychiatry is specifically designed to provide the participant with useful and up-to-date information on accurate diagnosis and appropriate management in all types of psychiatric disorders, including, but not limited to:
Anxiety disorders
Dementia, delirium, amnesia, and other cognitive disorders
Geriatric psychiatry
Mental disorders in childhood and adolescence
Mood disorders
Multiaxial illnesses
Personality disorders
Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders
Sexual disorders and paraphilias
Sleep disorders
Substance-related disorders
The goal of this program is to improve the diagnosis and treatment of affective spectrum disorders. After hearing and assimilating this program, the clinician will be better able to:
1: Discuss the current debate surrounding pediatricbipolar disorder.
2: Describe how the clinical presentation of bipolar disorder in youth differs from that in adults.
3: Relate recently released practice parameters for pediatric bipolar disorder.
4: Explain the relationship between anxiety and stress and certain medical disorders.
5: Cite the mechanisms by which treatment for anxiety and depression result in improvement in medical disorders.