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Ketamine has emerged in the last decade as a highly efficacious treatment for depression and mood disorders. This training is designed for therapists, psychologists, physicians, and other mental health professionals who want to better understand how ketamine works and the role they can play as practitioners to ensure the best clinical outcomes for patients seeking relief.
While ketamine is a powerful and at times life-saving tool, ensuring safe, effective treatment is not as straightforward as writing a prescription. This course will introduce how practitioners can help their patients safely and legally access treatment options in New York City, or establish working relationships with similar practices in their own communities.
Research shows that ketamine treatment has the best chance of improving long-term patient outcomes and wellbeing when paired with psychotherapy before and after treatment. Participants in this course will learn basic principles for selecting and preparing patients for ketamine treatment, and integrating the insights generated from their experiences into follow up psychotherapy. Ultimately, the aim is to introduce a patient-centric, highly collaborative care model, designed to lead to the best results for patients.
This course is NYSED Approved for 12 CE Hours.
Learning objectives
At the end of the program, participants will be better able to:
Describe the concepts of Drug Assisted Therapy to their clients
Describe how ketamine fits into treatment plans for depressive disorders
Integrate ketamine into their existing frameworks for managing clients with depressive disorders
Summarize the current understandings of ketamine antidepressant mechanisms
Recognize clients that might be appropriate for ketamine infusion therapy
Recognize clients that might NOT be appropriate for ketamine infusion therapy
Navigate the legal and practical hurdles in accessing this treatment for their clients
Distinguish between the medical and recreational use of ketamine
Psychologically prepare their clients for the ketamine sessions
Assist their clients in integrating the experiences from the ketamine sessions into their larger psychotherapeutic goals
Employ specific psychotherapeutic techniques to maximize behavioral and cognitive changes during the neuroplastic windows opened by ketamine.
Describe how ketamine could play a long term role in mental healthcare
Speakers
Nico Grundmann, MD MBA, Chief Medical Officer of Ember Health
Tiffany Franke, Chief Experience Officer of Ember Health
Elizabeth Nielson, PhD Psychologist and co-founder of Fluence
Ingmar Gorman, PhD, Psychologist and co-founder of Fluence
Information on Continuing Education Credit for Health Professionals:
• CE credits for psychologists are provided by the Spiritual Competency Resource Center (SCRC) which is co-sponsoring this program. The Spiritual Competency Resource Center is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Spiritual Competency Resource Center maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
• The California Board of Behavioral Sciences accepts CE credits for LCSW, LPCC, LEP, and LMFT license renewal for programs offered by approved sponsors of CE by the American Psychological Association.
• LCSWs, MFTs, and other mental health professionals from states other than California need to check with their state licensing board as to whether or not they accept programs offered by approved sponsors of CE by the American Psychological Association.
• SCRC is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing (BRN Provider CEP16887) for licensed nurses in California.
• For questions about receiving your Certificate of Attendance, contact info@fluence8.com. For questions about CE, visit www.spiritualcompetency.com or contact David Lukoff, PhD at CE@spiritualcompetency.com.