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.
Demystifying Bipolar Disorder
DescriptionDemystifying 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.
Restoring Intimacy
DescriptionDepression 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
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Health Care Reform: Providing More Access to Quality Mental Health Care
DescriptionAre 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
Treatment Choices: Tools for Success
DescriptionIn 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
Treatment Choices: Options for Bipolar Disorder
DescriptionIn 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: Options for Depression
DescriptionIn 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
DescriptionToo 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.
Understanding Your Options
This first webinar provides a broad overview of several areas where 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
Understanding Agitation
DescriptionEveryone 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.
Presenters: Scott Zeller, MD and Tom Lane, CRPS
Unlocking & Opening Doors to Treatment
DescriptionDid 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.
