Forthcoming Courses
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Overview
People with resistant
psychosis are especially familiar to clinicians for a number of
reasons. Firstly, they may continue to need a hospital bed, and
while in hospital, their persistent symptoms often mean that they
require greater input from across the multidisciplinary team. For
others, well resourced community services may mean that people,
while able to leave hospital, are nevertheless symptomatic and need
more frequent community contact. Ongoing psychotic symptoms make it
more difficult for someone to reliably engage with treatment
programmes, thus increasing the risk of relapse and readmission.
People with predominantly negative or cognitive symptoms may
require ongoing support from health, social services or both
because of their lower levels of functioning.
Refractory psychosis not only affects
quality of life for the person themselves, but also results in
greater pressure on carers and relatives.This course is designed to
help psychiatrists review their management of these patients with
greater confidence and to impart some new ideas which might help to
break the cycle. This should in turn improve the quality of life of
our client group as well as reducing costs of treatment.
This course is eligible for 6
CPD hours subject to your peer group approval.
Topics Include
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Medication options in resistant
psychosis including specific advice on improving the tolerability
of Clozapine
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The latest pharmacological approaches
to resistant psychosis and what options exist when Clozapine
doesn’t work
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Psychological therapies including
cognitive-behavioural therapy and family work
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Outcome measures in resistant
psychosis
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Future approaches to treatment
resistant psychosis Support Specialist NHS Teams
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