Learn more about the prescribing side of mental health care
Presented by Kathryn Kinasz, MD and Josephine McNary, MD
2 CEs available
Free for Marin CAMFT members and reciprocal chapter members!
Workshop Description
This presentation addresses how to create meaningful collaboration between psychiatrists and therapists, with an overview on the use of psychiatric medications in the treatment of mood and anxiety disorders.
Dr. McNary will use clinical case vignettes to examine ways in which effective and efficient communication between therapists and psychiatrists can improve the quality of care and optimize mental health outcomes for our clients. She will explore how to determine when to reach out a psychiatrist and common barriers to meaningful communication between psychiatrists and therapists. Dr. Kinasz will discuss when to consider recommending medication, and will also discuss the different types of medication used, their efficacy in treatment of mood and anxiety disorders, and common side effects.
Educational Goals
This training will cover the ways in which effective communication between psychiatrists and therapists can be done, and the positive effects that this has on treatment outcomes. A succinct overview on the types of medications used to treat depression and anxiety will be provided.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this workshop, participants should be able to:
- Discuss efficient ways for therapists and psychiatrists to communicate
- Determine when reaching out to a psychiatrist is appropriate and warranted
- Address common barriers to communication between psychiatrists and therapists
- Describe aspects of culturally competent care that psychiatrists tend to when treating mood and anxiety disorders
- Name three different classes of psychiatric medications used for the treatment of mood and anxiety disorders
- Identify at least 2 common side effects in each class of medications used to treat mood and anxiety disorders
Presenters
Dr. Kathryn Kinasz is a child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist in the CalPsychiatry Menlo Park and San Francisco offices. She specializes in the treatment of psychiatric illnesses that impact children and adolescents including but not limited to mood and anxiety disorders, ADHD, and eating disorders. She also sees children struggling with behavioral issues at home or at school and adolescents exploring their gender identity. Dr. Kinasz also sees adults with similar disorders and has a unique interest in women’s mental health including women facing infertility, psychiatric issues in pregnancy and postpartum, and challenges of new motherhood. Dr. Kinasz uses various treatment tools including psychotherapy, psychoeducation, parent and family interventions, and medications to help an individual achieve their personalized goals in treatment.
Dr. Kinasz carefully listens to a person’s unique story and uses an evidenced-based approach to address their individualized needs. Her child and adolescent fellowship training helps her to explore her patients through a lens that considers biological, psychological, and environmental factors that contribute to their symptoms. She believes in addressing the family system in treatment so that the individual and, when applicable, the entire family can achieve psychological healing and growth.
Dr. Josephine McNary is a board-certified general psychiatrist, working with a variety of patients in her outpatient practice. She specializes in medication management and is particularly interested in the use of complementary medicine for mood and anxiety disorders. Dr. McNary has her BA and MA degrees from Stanford University and her MD from Tulane University. From there, she completed her psychiatry residency at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute, where her training included women’s mental health, mood and anxiety disorders, cognitive behavioral therapy, and couples and family therapy.
Passionate about developing her medical practice and technique, Dr. McNary has completed specialty fellowship training in both psycho-oncology and mood disorders. She served as the staff psychiatrist at the UCLA Simms-Mann Center for Integrative Oncology from 2011-2015, and also completed a fellowship at the UCLA Mood Disorders Clinic, which specializes in treatment-resistant mood disorders. Dr. McNary is the founder of CalPsychiatry, a psychiatry practice with over fifteen psychiatrists in locations throughout California. She is also host of MindStories, a podcast exploring various mental health treatment options available. In addition to working closely with her patients across multiple CalPsychiatry locations, Dr. McNary is currently attending staff at the UCLA Department of Psychiatry, where she provides both inpatient psychiatry and consultation services.
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PLEASE NOTE: This event will be recorded. By registering for this event you are consenting to a recording being made which may include your voice and/or image. This recording may be available for review and downloading. By registering for this event, you are agreeing for your likeliness to possibly be used by Marin CAMFT.
The Zoom link and password are provided in the registration confirmation email after sign-up is completed.
Attendance at the live event in full and completion of the evaluation at the end qualifies for 2 hours of Continuing Education (2 CEUs).
Date: Friday, March 8
Time: 12 noon to 2 pm Pacific
Cost: Free for Marin CAMFT members and reciprocal members, $30 for non-members.
Location: Online via Zoom. Password and link sent upon registration.
Additional Information about Marin CAMFT CE Programs
For more information about the Friday Continuing Education Series or about joining the Marin CAMFT Continuing Education Committee, please contact our Director of Programs Norman Hering.
- Continuing Education: This workshop meets the qualifications for 2 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LEPs and/or LPCCs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. These CEs will be provided by Marin CAMFT (CAMFT Provider # 56895), which is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs and LEPs. We regret that at this time we are not able to provide CE units for Licensed Psychologists. Participants must attend the full duration of the program (on Zoom, or in person, per event details above) and complete the course evaluation to receive the CE completion certificate. Marin CAMFT maintains responsibility for this program and its contents. Contact our Director of Programs at marincountycamftchapter@gmail.com for more information.
- Continuing Education Goal: Marin CAMFT is committed to offering continuing education courses to train LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs and LEPs to treat any client in an ethically and clinically sound manner based upon current accepted standards of practice.
- Refund Policy: Our refund policy requires a $20 processing fee, and we must be notified in advance of the event if you would like to cancel. We do not provide refunds in case of non-attendance by the registrant. Please contact our Director of Programs at marincountycamftchapter@gmail.com with any questions.
- Request for Accommodations: If you need accommodations for this event, please contact the Director of Programs at marincountycamftchapter@gmail.com.
- Grievance Procedure: Marin CAMFT will respond to complaints in a reasonable, ethical and timely manner, when submitted by program attendees in writing to the Director of Programs.
- Anti-Discrimination Policy: Marin CAMFT shall not discriminate against any individual or group with respect to any service, program or activity based on gender or gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, race, creed, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, ability, or other prohibited basis. Marin CAMFT does not require attendees to adhere to any particular religion or creed in order to participate in training. Marin CAMFT will not promote or advocate for a single modality of treatment that is discriminatory or likely to harm clients based on current accepted standards or practice.
Continuing education credits are available for attendance in the Zoom presentation. You must stay on the Zoom meeting for the entirety of the training and complete the course evaluation afterward in order to receive a completion certificate. Because of the requirement to attend the training in full, if you attempt to log in to the Zoom late, after the training is already underway, you may not be admitted. Please log onto the event promptly at the listed start time.
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