The DSM-5 and Psychodiagnostic Interviewing, with TR Updates
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Overview
Discover the art of getting the diagnosis you need while building the rapport you want. Whether you love the DSM or hate it, accurate diagnosis is a vital clinical skill. Now you can get a comprehensive course in the DSM-5, the TR updates, its uses and misuses, ethical considerations, and step-by-step instructions in psychodiagnostic interviewing. Using vignettes of clients struggling with some of the most common diagnoses, Jason Buckles and Victor Yalom show you how to obtain diagnostic information while still creating a strong alliance with clients.
Clinical vignettes and rich discussions distill the essence of each diagnosis as well as important rule-outs, comorbidities, updated cultural factors, suicide risk data, and common challenges that can arise in the diagnostic process. See how to gather targeted information to confidently arrive at an accurate diagnosis, without sacrificing empathy or connection.
What's Included
In this 4-volume course you’ll observe Jason Buckles and Victor Yalom as they work to strike a delicate balance of obtaining diagnostic information and creating a warm alliance with new clients.
Volume 1: Psychiatric Diagnosis and Interviewing
Whether you love the DSM or hate it, as a clinician you need to understand how to use it and how to avoid misusing it.
Through clear step-by-step instructions and clinical demonstrations, you’ll learn:
- The benefits and drawbacks of conceptualizing problems as disorders
- How to push for more specific information while attending to the alliance
- How to determine or rule out diagnoses
- The dangers of diagnosing culturally normative behaviors as disorders
Volume 2: Diagnosing PTSD, Adjustment, Generalized Anxiety and Panic Disorders
Watch diagnostic interviews with clients struggling with four of the more common diagnoses encountered in clinical practice.
You’ll learn:
- Tips for destigmatizing the symptoms clients are experiencing
- To recognize when normal human reactions become impairments
- How to differentiate between diagnoses that share similar symptoms
- How to navigate the subjectivity inherent in making diagnostic judgment calls
Volume 3: Diagnosing Depressive, Bipolar, and Alcohol Use Disorders
Meet three individuals and one couple, all with the life struggles and details that demonstrate what these clusters of symptoms look like when they reach a diagnosable level.
You’ll learn:
- How to rule out other disorders that sometimes present as depression
- The differences between Bipolar I and II
- When depression warrants a major depressive diagnosis
- Tips for assessing suicidality while maintaining rapport
- Tips for engaging clients with empathy, self-disclosure, and even humor
Volume 4: Diagnosing Anorexia, Schizophrenia and Borderline Personality Disorder
Explore the specialized skills required to gather information and establish rapport with clients struggling with these challenging disorders.
You’ll learn:
- What to do when clients are resistant, hostile, or unable to self-reflect
- The necessity of follow-up interviews, as well as input from medical personnel and family members
- How to attend to the client’s pace while obtaining critical information
- Tips for recording symptoms and experiences in a nonjudgmental, objective manner
The DSM-5 with TR Updates offers you:
- A detailed outline of how to conduct a diagnostic interview as well as helpful tips for effective phrasing of assessment questions
- Methods for destigmatizing the symptoms and the diagnosis and focus on improving the client’s overall mental health
- 10 hours of video covering 11 common DSM-5 diagnoses, including clinical demonstrations and detailed commentary
- Tips for getting more specific information while also being mindful of attending to the alliance
About the Experts
Jason Buckles, PhD, is the executive director of A Better Way of Living, an agency that provides support for people with intellectual disability and concurrent behavioral and/or mental health conditions. He has taught psychiatric assessment and diagnosis at New Mexico Highlands University since 2002 and in the special education department at The University of New Mexico since 2015.
Victor Yalom, PhD, is the founder and resident cartoonist of Psychotherapy.net. He is a licensed psychologist with over 30 years of clinical experience and has conducted workshops in existential-humanistic and group therapy in the US, Mexico, and China. He has produced over 100 training videos in psychotherapy, counseling, and addictions treatment.
Disclosures
General Disclosure
This Disclosure Statement has been designed to meet accreditation standards; Psychotherapy.net does its best to mitigate potential conflicts of interest and eliminate bias in all areas of content. Experts are compensated for their contributions to our training videos; while some of them have published works, the purchase of additional materials are not required for any Psychotherapy.net training. Each experts’ specific disclosures can be found under the heading, ‘Therapist Disclosure.’
Psychotherapy.net offers trainings for cost but has no financial or other relationships to disclose.
Therapist Disclosure
Jason Buckles was compensated for his contribution to this course. None of his books or additional offerings are required for this course. Should such materials be referenced, it is only as additional resources.
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Additionally, there is no commercial support for this activity. None of the planners or any employee at Psychotherapy.net who has worked on this educational activity has relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies.
Learning Objectives
- Describe the fundamental elements of a mental disorder
- List the sequential elements of a diagnostic interview
- Recite the uses for and critiques of the DSM diagnostic system
- List the symptoms associated with Adjustment, Panic, Generalized Anxiety, and Posttraumatic Stress disorders
- Apply skills in conducting a diagnostic interview with these client types
- Prepare interview questions that facilitate differential diagnosis of these disorders
- List the symptoms associated with Major Depressive, Persistent Depressive, Bipolar, and Substance Use disorders
- Describe skills for conducting a diagnostic interview with clients suffering from these disorders
- Prepare interview questions that facilitate differential diagnosis of these disorders
- List the symptoms associated with Schizophrenia, Anorexia, and Borderline Personality Disorders
Describe skills in conducting a diagnostic interview with clients suffering from these disorders
Revise your differential diagnostic skill set
What you get in this course
Real Sessions
10 hours of video covering 11 common DSM-5 diagnoses
Therapist Commentary
Voiceover commentaries and discussions for behind-the-scenes insight
Continuing Education
9.5 continuing education credits available for licensed professionals
Bonus Resources
Supplemental activities including skill building exercises and discussion questions help consolidate learning and promote lateral thinking
“Incorporating changes relevant to the DSM-5-TR, Buckles and Yalom engage in discussions regarding the complex process of assessing various psychiatric disorders before demonstrating these concepts in session.”
“This series provides examples that model diagnostic interviewing and counseling skills, helpful commentary on what is being done and why, and clinician conversations that provide context and enhance understanding of the diagnostic process.”
“As a counselor educator, I appreciated the clinical demonstrations of common assessment and diagnostic processes. This course will be a great addition to diagnosis and treatment planning classes, where there is limited time to comprehensively cover all areas of the DSM-5-TR.”
“This course provides detailed definitions of newly added or expanded conditions in the DSM-5 TR, including history of the DSM and reasons for revisions through the years. I appreciate the detailed overview of the much needed cultural and social justice additions. With step-by-step clinical demonstrations, the videos are a must-view for clinicians and students alike, and an invaluable asset to professors of both virtual and face-to-face programs.”
“It’s an essential resource for both students and clinicians, providing detailed insights that will enhance understanding and improve diagnostic accuracy.”
