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Activity Date: 04/23/2018

AAPP 2018 registration is closed.

Session Time and Location

The live session is complete.

Target Audience

This course is designed for pharmacists, nurse practitioners or other healthcare professionals involved in the comprehensive medication management of psychiatric and/or neurological patients.

Session Summary

Monday, April 23, 2018, 9:30-10:30 AM

The current DSM-5 manual includes a new specifier for mixed features; however, there are no Food and Drug Administration-approved medications to treat major depressive disorder with mixed features. Furthermore, there are two guidelines that provide decision support to providers managing patients with depression with mixed features. Importantly, these guidelines differ in their recommendations namely whether to use antidepressant monotherapy due to the potential risk for inducing a treatment emergent affective switch. Pharmacists involved in management of patients with depressive mixed episodes can provide valuable input to the healthcare team by understanding available data as well as how to best manage this patient population. This program will improve pharmacists’ knowledge of the mixed features specifier and depressive mixed states presentation including common differential diagnoses as well as inform pharmacists on evidence-based treatment options for these patients.

Course Requirements

To receive ACPE credit for the live session at the Annual Meeting, you must:

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  • Register for this course.
  • Attend and participate in the entire session and reflect upon its teachings.
  • Complete the evaluation at the end of the activity.
  • Provide the necessary details in your profile to ensure correct reporting by AAPP to CPE Monitor.

This course will be provided at the CPNP 2018 Annual Meeting, April 22-25, 2018. Upon successful completion, ACPE credit is reported immediately to CPE Monitor although transcripts can be retrieved by participants online at https://aapp.org/mycpnp/transcript/acpe.

Faculty Information and Disclosures

Learning Objectives

  1. Review the differential diagnosis of depressive disorders, focusing on DSM-5 specifier “with mixed features” within the context of an illness continuum.
  2. Summarize the characteristics of depressions with mixed features, including the impact on presenting symptoms, overall health status and natural history.
  3. Identify therapeutic options for patients with depressive episodes with mixed features.
  4. Use “real world” case examples to illustrate key points on natural history and treatment selection.

Continuing Education Credit and Disclosures

Activity Date: 04/23/2018
ACPE Contact Hours: 1
ACPE Number: 0284-0000-18-025-L01-P (Knowledge)
Nursing Credit Reminder: Note that ACPE credit is accepted for certification renewal.

ACPEThe College of Psychiatric and Neurologic Pharmacists is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education. This course provides 1.0 contact hour of knowledge-based continuing education credit from CPNP approved programming.

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