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GRIFFIN - On Friday, April 25, 2014, the University of Georgia Griffin Campus will present a day of sessions devoted to the field of psychology. Psych Day at UGA features morning sessions on Future Trends Today that are open to the public and an afternoon continuing education psychopharmacology workshop for mental healthcare professionals. All sessions will be held on the Griffin Campus in the Student Learning Center (SLC), Room 104. Registration is free for the morning sessions on Future Trends Today, but there is a charge for the afternoon continuing education workshop, which satisfies the Biannual Continuing Education requirements for psychologists licensed in Georgia.
The morning sessions, focused on the theme of Future Trends Today, cover topics that include the future of psychopharmacology and the evolution of correctional mental health. The final morning session, “Narcissism in Contemporary Culture,” features noted expert, professor, and head of the Department of Psychology in the UGA Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, Dr. Keith Campbell. Other presenters include Dr. Jim DeGroot, Head of Mental Health for the Georgia Dept. of Corrections; Dr. Andrea Kozak Miller, President of the Georgia Psychological Association; and Ms. Willa Presmanes, creator of the Daily Living Activities-20© (DLA-20©), a functional assessment tracking twenty everyday tasks impacted by mental illness or disability, now used in forty states.
The afternoon continuing education workshop is titled “Minimizing Psychopharmacological Errors: A Proactive Approach for Mental Health Providers.” The scope of psychopharmacological and other medication errors is an often underappreciated sub-area in the total domain of medical mistakes. By some estimates, the number of medication errors harms 1.5 million people each year at a conservative cost of $3.5 billion a year.
“Professionals and practitioners who choose to participate in the entire day will be up-to-date with current issues and problems facing the mental health sector,” said Perry Buffington, lecturer in the Franklin College Department of Psychology at UGA Griffin. “They will have opportunities to interact with our excellent presenters and their colleagues, receive the latest information, establish additional contacts within the profession, and find ways to improve, if necessary, any current practices.”
Psych Day at UGA grew out of the new Interdisciplinary Studies A.B. degree with concentrations in psychology and sociology that UGA began offering at the Griffin Campus in Fall 2013.
“Our new interdisciplinary degree program’s psychology concentration prepares students to work effectively in the mental health field,” said Faye Chatman, program director for the Franklin College at UGA Griffin. “In conjunction with our psychology concentration, we hope to serve as a resource for current professionals who desire to enhance their practice by offering future Psych Day at UGA programs. This year’s morning sessions in particular are a rare opportunity to explore leading-edge topics for mental healthcare providers.”
Registration for Psych Day at UGA is available online on the UGA Griffin Campus Continuing Education web site: www.ugagriffincontinuinged.com.
For more information on the Griffin campus, visit http://uga.edu/griffin