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Upcoming Webinar
Optimizing Treatment in Bipolar Disorder: Review & New Directions
- Tuesday, March 24
- 3:00 - 4:30 p.m. ET
- 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ **
- APA Members - $25; Non-Members - $45; Resident Fellow Members - $25; Medical Student Members - $0
While the hallmark of bipolar disorder is mania, for many depression and cognitive impairment are primary drivers of poor quality of life. This clinical review will focus on evidence based and new emerging treatment options for mania, depression and maintenance phase (subsyndromal symptoms, cardiometabolic, living and functioning well) management. Outside of evidence-based practices, new or developing therapies and new learning environments will be explored.
Learning Objectives
- Appreciate key course of illness measures and comorbidity patterns that impact treatment recommendations
- Recognize the different treatment recommendations between bipolar I vs II disorder and rapid vs non rapid cycling
- Understand new research areas for treatment recommendations
Previous Webinars
Watch the following webinars on demand in the APA Learning Center:
- A Clinical Approach to Structural Neuroimaging in Dementia (October 2025)
- Improving Mental Health Outcomes at Scale through Technology-Enabled Measurement-Based Care (July 2025)
- Treatment as Prevention: Improving the Outcome of Schizophrenia (February 2025)
- Unseen Consequences: Research Linking Childhood Trauma & Epigenetics (January 2025)
- Advances in Obesity Treatment: Medication Management for Psychiatrists (December 2024)
- Updates in Diagnostics and Therapeutics in Alzheimer's Dementia (November 2024)
- Medical Cannabis for Psychiatric Indications: What Physicians Need to Know (July 2024)
- The Frontier of Reproductive Psychiatry: New Treatments, New Tests, New Hope (May 2024)
- What's Climate Got To Do With It? How Climate Change Affects Mental Health & How You Can Help (March 2024)
- Nonpharmacological Management of ADHD (August 2023)
- Actions Speak Louder Than Words: Assessing and Managing Agitation in the Nursing Home Setting (July 2023)
- The City and Mental Health: A Social Psychiatrist's Perspective (June 2023)
- Rapid-Acting Antidepressants: New Treatments, New Hope, and New Insights into the Brain (April 2023)
- DSM-5-TR: What You Need to Know (February 2023)
For past emerging topics webinars and other educational content, visit the APA Learning Center at education.psychiatry.org.
Other past topics include:
- What Happens When the Public Health Emergency Ends? Telepsychiatry and Hybrid Practice Post-PHE
- Evaluation, Management, Coding, and Documentation – What All Psychiatrists in Clinical Practice Need to Know
- Facing the Hard Truths About Our Climate Disaster– Psychiatry's Role in Preparing society to accept a necessary shift in the Cultural Paradigm
- The Covid-19 Pandemic and the Child Mental Health Crisis: What We Can Do Now
- Heat Waves and Wildfires for the Practicing Psychiatrist: What you need to know to protect your patients and community
- Denial: Nuclear Trauma and the Cold War Psychiatry in Hiroshima
- Psychedelics as Therapeutics for Substance Use Disorders
Accreditation
**The American Psychiatric Association is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The APA designates this enduring CME activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.