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An Office Mental Status Exam for Dissociative Disorders: Part 2

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About the Course

This course is based on the Psychological Assessment of Dissociative Disorders
The OMSEDD was originally developed to assist psychiatric residents with assessment of complex dissociative and posttraumatic psychopathologies. Accordingly, it uses a phenomological approach to symptom clusters that commonly appear in patients with dissociative disorders and complex PTSD. This system was designed at a time when diagnosis of dissociative identity disorder (then multiple personality disorder) was primarily based in attempts to elicit alter self states, often by using hypnosis or similar intrusive
methods.

This was problematic since many clinicians were/are not trained in hypnosis and/or comfortable with using this method for diagnosis. At that time, experts frequently voiced concerns about the production of hypnotic artifacts that could be misidentified as alters, particularly in those inexperienced with either DID or hypnosis or both. The OMSEDD allowed the clinician to explore 6 symptom clusters: dissociative process symptoms, amnesia, auto-hypnotic symptoms, PTSD symptoms, somatoform symptoms, and mood symptoms. Frequently, in DID patients, assessment of these clusters allowed the direct emergence of alter identities, without intrusive methods, during the interview. This interview does not replace structured screening and diagnostic inventories for DID. However, it allows assessment of complex dissociative symptoms in any clinical interview in any clinical setting.

In addition to discussion of diagnosis and differential diagnosis of dissociative disorders using the OMSEDD, this presentation will include clinical examples from a video of a DID patient being interviewed.

This course is based on the recorded webinar, An Office Mental Status Exam for Dissociative Disorders: Part 2 created by Richard J. Loewenstein M.D.

Journal/Publisher

International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation

Publication Date:

March 3, 2009

Course Material Author

Richard J. Loewenstein M.D.
Richard J. Loewenstein M.D. is a Senior Psychiatrist and the founder and Medical Director of The Trauma Disorders Program at Sheppard Pratt Health Systems, Baltimore, MD, ranked by U.S. News and World Report as among America's 10 top psychiatric facilities. He was the former President of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation from 1991 to 1992. He is also Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University Of Maryland School Of Medicine. He is a graduate of U.C. Berkeley and Yale University School of Medicine where he did his residency. After a research fellowship at the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, MD, he spent 5 years at UCLA and the West LA VA Medical Center. He is the author of over 50 papers and book chapters on sleep disorders, consultation-liaison psychiatry, dissociation, dissociative disorders, and trauma disorders.

Richard J. Loewenstein M.D. authored the material only, and was not involved in creating this CE course. They are identified here for your own evaluation of the relevancy of the material this course is based on.

Course Creator

Recommended For:

This ISSTD course is recommended for mental health and allied professionals, including: Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, Marriage and Family Counselors, plus any other professional whose work involves providing service to individuals suffering from trauma and dissociative disorders and other academics whose studies include chronic trauma and dissociation in its many varied forms. It is appropriate for an intermediate level of participants' knowledge.

Course Objectives:

After taking this course, you should be able to:

  1. Identify areas of application of Office Mental Status Exam for complex dissociative and posttraumatic psychopathologies.
  2. Explore seven symptom clusters that are important to review in making differential diagnoses of dissociative disorders and complex PTSD.
  3. Define the uses a phenomenological approach to symptom clusters that commonly appear in patients with dissociative disorders and complex PTSD

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Planners and Reviewers

The planners of this activity have reported that they have no relevant financial relationships.

Faculty: Keith Gibson, Ph.D.

There are no relevant disclosures.

Commercial support

There is no commercial support for this distance-learning course.

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