Training: DSM-5 Workshop - Vancouver

The Intelligent Clinician's Guide to DSM-5 Workshop by Dr. Joel Paris

Friday, February 28th, 2014
Park Inn & Suites (Oak Room)
898 West Broadway
Vancouver, BC V5Z 1J8

Register by January 10^th, 2014 to take advantage of our EARLY BIRD RATES!

To register for Early Bird visit: http://psychologists.bc.ca/civicrm/event/info?id=109&reset=1

Description: This workshop will review the nature of diagnosis in psychiatry and the history of the DSM process, describing the strong and weak points of this approach to classification of mental illness. It will then examine each of the major groupings in the manual, identify the major problems, and indicate where DSM-5 has made changes and where it has not.

Learning Objectives:
1) to understand the scientific and ideological bases of the DSM system
2) to examine limitations of the DSM, but to indicate how future research might illuminate diagnostic problems
3) to examine each of the major diagnoses in psychiatry and to review how DSM-5 deals with them

Presenter Biography:Joel Paris obtained an MD from McGill University in 1964, where he also trained in psychiatry. Dr. Paris has been a member of the McGill psychiatry department since 1972. Since 1994, he has been a full Professor, and served as Department Chair from 1997 to 2007. Dr. Paris is currently a Research Associate at the SMBD-Jewish General Hospital, and heads clinics at two hospitals. He is also Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Journal of Psychiatry. Dr. Paris has 185 peer-reviewed articles, and is the author of 17 books and 44 book chapters. Dr. Paris is an educator who has won awards for his teaching.