Link to Livestream: 
http://healthcare.partners.org/streaming/Live/PHS/2020_BehavioralHealthSymposium.html

Description

On the heels of the devastating surge of infections, hospitalizations and deaths due to the COVID-19 pandemic, mental health experts are sounding the alarm about a second, more insidious surge on the way: an anticipated wave of behavioral health issues, unhealthy coping and domestic violence.

Chief among those behavioral health issues is anxiety. Fear of contracting the virus as well as of coping with the pandemic’s fallout has already led to an increase in calls to doctor’s offices and visits to respiratory illness clinics. Anxiety also can manifest in physical symptoms, which in turn can bring people in for unnecessary testing and heighten the cycle of anxiety.

Renowned health anxiety expert Arthur Barsky, MD, will discuss how health anxiety may present during the pandemic and how providers can identify and manage it.

Learning Objectives

Upon completing this session participants will be able to:

  1. Identify health anxiety and how it presents.
  2. Apply skills attained to diagnose somatization and health anxiety.
  3. Apply techniques learned to manage somatization and health anxiety in clinical practice.

Target Audience 

This activity is intended for Primary Care Teams managing behavioral health (care managers/behavioral health support specialists, social workers, PCPs, psychiatric consultants).

Accreditation

Partners HealthCare System is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The Partners HealthCare System designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nursing

This session meets the requirements of the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Nursing at 244 CMR 5.00 for 1.2 contact hours

Social Work

Application for social work continuing education credits is submitted. Please contact [email protected]  or [email protected] for the status of social work CE accreditation

Course Director

Trina E. Chang, MD, MPH
Associate Medical Director for Behavioral Health Integration,
Quality and Patient Experience,
Mass General Brigham

Speaker

Art Barsky, MD
Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School;
Vice Chair for Academic Affairs, Department of Psychiatry, Brigham & Women's Hospital

 

Session date: 
07/01/2020 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm EDT
Location: 
Mass General Brigham
United States
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  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 1.20 Nursing Contact Hours
  • 1.00 Participation
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