Psychopharmacology Special Topics BrownBag - Bipolar and Disruptive Mood Dysregulation

DMDD is a psychiatric condition and is typically only diagnosed in children. The main symptoms include irritability, emotional dysregulation, and behavioral outbursts. Outbursts are usually in the form of severe temper tantrums. The condition was introduced in 2013 and was developed as a diagnosis to help reduce the overdiagnosis of bipolar disorder in children. Often confused with biploar, these two conditions are crucial for social workers to understand and assist clients with.

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Presenter: Dr. Justin R. White

Dr. Justin White is a board certified family psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner and licensed independent (clinical) social worker. He is currently an Assistant Professor of nursing at The University of Alabama and maintains active clinical practice in New Mexico providing evaluation, psychopharmacological and psychotherapeutic management of patients with psychiatric issues of all ages. He was a Hartford Foundation scholar at the University of Utah and earned a certificate in gerontology. His research has focused on understanding barriers to mental health care and integration of mental health care with primary care. Dr. White has extensive clinical experience in the practice of clinical social work and advanced psychiatric nursing with the child, adolescent, adult and geriatric population in correctional/forensic settings, long term care facilities, medical/psychiatric facilities and emergency departments.

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