DBSA Educational Webinars

DBSA webinars are online educational sessions featuring mental health experts that cover a wide range of topics from treatment options, to personal wellness strategies, to relationships.

• Unlocking & Opening Doors to Treatment
• Understanding Agitation
• Treatment Choices:
  • Understanding Your Options
  • Options for Depression
  • Options for Bipolar Disorder
  • Tools for Success
• Health Care Reform: Providing More Access to Quality Mental Health Care
• Restoring Intimacy
• Demystifying Bipolar Disorder

Unlocking & Opening Doors to Treatment

Did you know your health insurance plan is required to offer the same level of benefits for mental health as it does for physical health? Understanding your rights is crucial to maximizing the mental health benefits available to you. This 35-minute webinar will inform you of your rights and tell you how to file an appeal with the insurance company if you have been inappropriately denied coverage.

Understanding Agitation

Everyone feels antsy, fidgety, or restless from time to time. But some people develop a more severe form of uneasiness called agitation. They may pace, wring their hands, or feel that they can’t sit still or focus. People living with mood disorders may be more disposed to experiencing agitation. Recognizing the signs of agitation and knowing what to do when they appear can be helpful to people with mood disorders and their loved ones.

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Presenters: Scott Zeller, MD and Tom Lane, CRPS

Treatment Choices

Too often, individuals living with a mood disorder can feel like their fate and quality of life is in the hands of others—that they have no real choice in finding the best path for treatment, and ultimately, their future. This can be disempowering and frustrating prospect that limits individuals’ ability to achieve wellness goals that are most important to them. The DBSA Treatment Choices 4-part webinar series explores how individuals can get back in the driver’s seat on their road to wellness.

Understanding Your Options

This first webinar provides a broad overview of all the areas in which you can exercise choice in finding a treatment plan that work best for you and how to work with your clinical team to ensure your treatment plan reflects your choices. 

Presentation: PDF of Treatment Choices Part I Understanding Your Options slides
Presenter: Greg Simon, MD, MPH

Treatment Choices: Options for Depression

In Treatment Choices: Options for Depression, we will address key areas of choice for adults living with depression and offer suggestions for working with your clinical team to align your treatment with your wellness goals. 

Presenters: Andrew Nierenberg, MD and Evette J. Ludman, PhD

Treatment Choices: Options for Bipolar Disorder

In Treatment Choices: Options for Bipolar Disorder, we will address key areas of choice for adults living with bipolar disorder and offer suggestions for working with your clinical team to align your treatment with your wellness goals.

Presenters: Joseph R. Calabrese, M.D. and Ellen Frank, PhD

Treatment Choices: Tools for Success

In Treatment Choices: Tools for Success, the last in DBSA’s 4-part webinar series exploring how individuals can get back in the driver’s seat on their road to wellness, we will provide practical strategies to help adults living with mood disorders gain more personal control over their treatment options. We will also be reviewing some tools that are designed to help you better construct a wellness plan, monitor your progress, and/or help you with specific wellness strategies.

Presenter: Donna Dykstra

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Health Care Reform: Providing More Access to Quality Mental Health Care

Are you getting all the mental health insurance benefits you are entitled to? DBSA presents a webinar that explains many of the advantages of health care reform for individuals living with mood disorders.

Presenter: Allen Doederlein

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Restoring Intimacy

Depression and bipolar disorder pose a challenge not just to our health, but to our closest relationships as well. As partners struggle against the fallout of guilt, confusion, and anger, genuine affection and intimacy often become all but impossible to maintain. This webinar takes a realistic look at the challenges as well as practical ways to make intimate relationships work better under such conditions.

Presenters: Anita Clayton, M.D. and Holly Swartz, M.D.
Presentation: PDF of Restoring Intimacy presentation slides
Handouts:

• CSFQ scales for men and women with scoring
• Questionnaire for men
• Questionnaire for women
• Questionnaire for partners

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Demystifying Bipolar Disorder

Demystifying Bipolar Disorder is a program created by DBSA to help educate individuals about bipolar disorder, separate the myths from the facts, and learn about helpful tools in managing bipolar disorder. 

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