Sexual Health, Mental Health, & Medications
Date and Time:
Friday, March 8th, 2024: 9:00 AM-11:00 AM
LOCATION:
1700 W Irving Park Rd, Suite 302 Chicago, IL 60613
Virtual option available. Link will be emailed upon registration.
Workshop Description:
Sexual health, mental health, and medications - are you having these essential conversations with your patients?
To begin with, many of us don't talk about the sexual implications of psychiatric conditions with our patients. Yet the impact of psych conditions on patients’ sex lives can often be a reason that they come into care. ,
Then there is the potential impact of medication: psychiatric medications can increase or dysregulated sexual performance - a leading cause for medication reluctance or discontinuation.
The elephant in the room, however, is that many health conditions and many other types of medications can cause sexual dysfunction — and mental health issues (or psychotropics) may not be the culprits at all.
Join Soleil Psychotherapy and Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner Tony Amberg to find out more about the intersection of sexual health, mental health and medications. Our discussion will help you engage in the conversations that patients are afraid to have about their sex lives, and clarify whom they should engage for help to make things better.
Course Objectives:
Learners will be able to identify three psychiatric conditions that contribute to sexual dysfunction and three non-psychiatric medical conditions that also contribute to sexual dysfunction.
Learners will be able to identify three classes of medication that cause sexual dysfunction.
Learners will be able to identify two ways of reducing risk of sexual dysfunction from medication.
Audience:
Professional Counselors
Social Workers
Marriage and Family Therapists
Psychologists
Presenters:
Alan “Tony” Amberg, APRN, PMHNP-BC
Tony is an award-winning Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner in private practice in Chicago. A previous President of the Illinois Chapter of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association, Tony is active as a speaker in conferences and online streaming content. Tony trained at Rush, and has worked in psychiatry for Northwestern Medicine and Rush, as well as in community mental health.
Continuing Education Hours:
This program is recognized as providing 2.0 CE* Hours for:
• LPC/LCPC (IDFPR license # 197.000360)
• LSW/LCSW (IDFPR license # 159.001584)
• Licensed Psychologist (IDFPR license # 268.000146)