The 1st Annual Louisiana Addiction Research Center Mental Health Summit will focus on understanding and addressing the mental health consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly as it relates to stress, social isolation, substance use, and suicide prevention.
The 1st Annual Louisiana Addiction Research Center Mental Health Summit will focus on understanding and addressing the mental health consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly as it relates to stress, social isolation, substance use, and suicide prevention. Speakers will discuss data from the national and local level and will provide structured discussions. Speakers will also present effective strategies for practicing clinicians to implement so as to identify those patients most at risk of suicide while preserving and protecting the mental health of these patients. Strategies such as telemedicine, promoting resiliency, and mindfulness training that can be implemented during social distancing will be highlighted. Opportunities for dealing with the compounding deleterious impact of social media will also be discussed. This summit will provide explanations of and tools for clinicians to use to protect young adults, essential healthcare workers, people of underserved minority communities, as well as the general community from suicide and other adverse mental health outcomes related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
This workshop is approved for 7.0 CE clock hours; NBCC credit is not available for this program.
For more information: please contact the CME Office at 318.675.4721.
To register: https://lsuhealthshreveport.formstack.com/forms/continuing_medical_education
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