SPEAKERS & LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

SPEAKERS

Donald Belau, Ph.D.

Dr. Belau, a certified school psychologist, licensed mental health provider, and certified professional counselor, received his Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska—Lincoln.  He provides psychological evaluations of female juvenile offenders and develops treatment programming that is female responsive in nature.  Dr. Belau serves on the Board of the Nebraska Adolescent Perpetration Network and the Nebraska Suicide Prevention Task Force.

Leigh Heithoff, BS, RPSGT, R.EEG T.

Ms. Heitoff is a clinical specialist in the Department of Sleep Medicine at Bryan LGH Medical Center.  She is a member of the Association of Polysomnographic Technologies and has been published in the Journal of Polysomnography. 

Vishal Madaan, M.D.

Dr. Madaan’s current position is at the Department of Psychiatry at Creighton University as the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellow.  He received his M.D. from the Institute of Medical Sciences in Rohtak,  India. 

Prasad Padala, M.D.

Dr. Padala is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Psychiatry at University of Nebraska Medical Center, Staff Psychiatrist and VA Psychiatry Residency Coordinator at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Omaha, NE and the Program Director for Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship at Creighton University.  His education and training include the Karnataka Institute of Medical Sciences and the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuroscience in India, as well as residency at Creighton University. 

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

The participant will be able to:

• Discuss the interaction of circadian rhythm on the homoeostatic process of sleep and alertness

•  Apply cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia to the treatment care process of the chemically dependent patient

•  Examine the prevalence of diabetes in patients diagnosed with a mental illness

•  Review metanalysis research demonstrating the affect of patient apathy on the outcome of diabetes control and the relationship of diabetes to the development of dementia

•  Examine the current research developments in the treatment and care of the patient diagnosed with schizophrenia

•  Discuss assessment tool and techniques necessary to understand self injurious behavior

•  Outline the choice/accountability model in relation to the triangle of treatment as it applies to the immediate and long term care of the patient with self injurious behavior and the family