Continuing Education 2015

CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDIT

 

This program is co-sponsored by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Department of Psychology. The Department of Psychology is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Department of Psychology maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Participants attending this program can receive up to six CEs (ONE CE credit hour FOR PARTICIPATION IN EACH SESSION). All questions, comments regarding CEs should be directed to the Department of Psychology at 402-472-2351.

 

This symposium will address critical issues in relation to the neuropsychopathology of schizophrenia. The target audience for all sessions of the symposium includes psychologists, counselors, social scientists, educators, and other parties interested in schizophrenia presented at an intermediate to advanced level of knowledge and expertise. This symposium includes six separate sessions. There are three sessions on Thursday, April 9th, and three sessions (as well as a panel discussion) on Friday, April 10th. Each session will be 60 minutes long followed by 15 minutes for discussion. Please consult the schedule to learn about session times. CE credit will not be offered for the poster session or the panel discussion. Each session includes specific learning objectives, which can be found on the website and within the evaluation forms. These forms will be provided at the time of the Symposium.  Information regarding speaker credentials and expertise are also available on the symposium website.

The cost for CE credit for each session is $25. Individuals may, however, wish to register for the entire symposium and attend all sessions (6 hours of CE) at the cost of $125. Individuals interested in receiving CE credits may register for individual sessions or the entire symposium by contacting James Berg at 402-472-2351 (jberg10@unl.edu). CE registration is also available the two days of the Symposium, April 9th-10th, 2016 at the Nebraska Union from 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. No refunds will be available. A certificate of attendance for CE credit for each session will be provided to participants at the end of each session. Participants must attend the entire session for which CE credits are being awarded. Please make checks payable to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Participants with special needs are encouraged to contact James Berg at 402-472-2351 regarding any necessary accommodations.

 

Learning Objectives

Dr. William Carpenter

This workshop is designed to help you:

1. List the 5 core negative symptoms identified in the NIMH consensus statement;

2. Describe the 5 core components of reward processing from a translational neuroscience perspective;

3.  Demonstrate understanding of the cognitive and neural processes linking reward processing impairments to negative symptoms of schizophrenia.

 

Dr. Bruce Cuthbert

This workshop is designed to help you:

1. Summarize the current issues regarding the nature of schizophrenia, including proposals that schizophrenia should be viewed as a syndrome as opposed to a specific disease;

2. Explain the development of the NIMH Research Domain Criteria (RDoC), an experimental classification system based upon functional and behavior/cognitive dimensions as well as neurobiological measures of the neural systems;

3. Describe ways in which the RDoC framework can be used to evaluate research grant applications.

 

Dr. Raquel Gur

This workshop is designed to help you:

1. Explain the role of neurodevelopmental genomic strategies in early identification of psychosis;

2. Describe two complementary strategies used to examine the underlying neurobiology of psychosis risk;

3. Summarize neurodevelopmental characteristics that modulate psychosis risk.

 

Dr. Ruben Gur

This workshop is designed to help you:

1. Summarize neurocognitive deficits and developmental delays among individuals who report psychotic symptoms;

2. Summarize specific neurocognitive predictors of maintaining high-risk status for psychosis;

3. Explain the important role of clinical and brain-behavior data in predicting persistence of psychotic symptoms.

 

Dr. David Lewis

This workshop is designed to help you:

1. Recognize the importance of cognitive dysfunction to functional outcome in schizophrenia;

2. Explain the neural circuitry basis for cognitive dysfunction in schizophrenia;

3. Apply the targeting of altered neural circuits to enhance cognitive function in schizophrenia.

 

Dr. Steven Silverstein

This workshop is designed to help you:

1. Summarize the different manifestations of disorganization in schizophrenia, from the perceptual to the linguistic domains;
2. Summarize the relative contributions of different brain regions to disorganized perception in schizophrenia;
3. Summarize retinal contributions to disorganized perception in schizophrenia;
4. Explain how different manifestations of disorganization may reflect a disturbance in a canonical cortical computation algorithm;
5. Apply novel assessments of perceptual functions to schizophrenia.