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Digesting DSM-5 Criteria and Patient Probes for Bipolar Disorder: Manic/Hypomanic Episodes Video
February 2024
In Part 2 of this video, Alan 'Tony' Amberg, MSN, APRN, PMHNP-BC discusses making the DSM-5 criteria for manic and hypomanic episodes in bipolar disorder more digestible for providers utilizing clinical patient probes.
Understanding the Montgomery-Åsberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS)
November 2023
Standardized psychiatric rating scales play an integral role in clinical trials, particularly in subject enrollment, eligibility, and evaluation of patients' responses to therapy.
Misdiagnosis and Differential Diagnosis for Bipolar Disorder
July 2023
Bipolar I disorder is often underdiagnosed and can be misdiagnosed even by well-trained healthcare providers.
Digesting DSM-5 Criteria and Patient Probes for Bipolar Disorder: Depressive Episodes Video
January 2023
In Part 1 of this video, Alan 'Tony' Amberg, MSN, APRN, PMHNP-BC discusses making the DSM-5 criteria for depressive episodes in bipolar disorder more digestible for providers utilizing clinical patient probes.
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Differentiating Unipolar and Bipolar Depression
June 2023
Standardized psychiatric rating scales play an integral role in clinical trials, particularly in subject enrollment, eligibility, and evaluation of patients' responses to therapy.
Clinical Topics in Depression
July 2023
PPD, now more aptly named peripartum depression, is a high risk for any woman going into a pregnancy with a mood disorder. Tony discusses newer findings and treatment mechanisms, best uses of existing medications, and how identifying the women at risk before and during pregnancy is essential to a good outcome.
Podcast: Thoughts on Self-Stigma
July 2023
Tony tells his personal story of living with depression. Interwoven with his discussion is how people with psychiatric disorders often stigmatize themselves. Tony gives his thoughts and strategies that both therapists and patients themselves can use to avoid doing this with mood disorders.
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Suicide Awareness & Prevention: Pearl For Practice
September 2021
Suicide is currently the second leading cause of death in young adults worldwide. While depression is often underlying, there can also be other psychiatric, medical, and psycho-social issues that increase risk.
Pearls For Practice: October Is American Pharmacists Month
October, 2021
In this month’s Pearls for Daily Practice and Living, Nurses Corner Section Advisors Sara Jones and Alan Tony Amberg make visible the invisible partner behind the scenes of getting patients your meds: the Pharmacists.
Pearls For Practice: Recognizing & Celebrating Pride Month
June 2021
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Intersexed (LGBTQI*) people represent a diverse range of identities and expressions of gender and sexual orientation. People who are a part of this community are diverse in terms of race, religion, ethnicity, nationality and socioeconomic class. This intersectionality — the combined and overlapping aspects of a person’s identity — brings diversity of thought, perspective, understanding and experience.
April Is Alcohol Awareness Month
April 2021
Alcohol Awareness Month was founded in 1987 by the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence to forward these three ideas: Alcoholism is a disease, and the alcoholic is a sick person The alcoholic can be helped, and is worth helping Alcoholism is a public health problem, and therefore a public responsibility Alcohol consumption has increased drastically during the pandemic and increased awareness and research is necessary and needed. In this presentation, Alan Tony Amberg and Sara Jones will discuss Alcohol Awareness Month and is importance.
Insomnia: It’s Nothing To Lose Sleep Over
March 2021
The World Sleep Society (WSS) celebrates World sleep day on Friday, March 19, 2021. The slogan for the 14th annual World Sleep Day is ‘Regular Sleep, Healthy Future.’ WSD is a call to all sleep professionals to advocate and educate the world about the importance of sleep for achieving an optimal quality of life and improve global health. Alan Tony Amberg and Sara Jones will discuss a few basics of sleep and how nurses can participate in teaching patients about this importance of sleep
August 2020
In this first of two companion videos to the popular webinar entitled “Psychological First Aid By Nurses, For Nurses: A Conversation With Alan ‘Tony’ Amberg,” PsychU Nurses Corner Section Advisor Tony Amberg, MS, MSN, APRN, PMHNP-BC, shares examples of deep breathing and other exercises that are designed to fight burnout and restore nurses’ inherent resilience.
August 2020
In this second of two companion videos to the popular webinar entitled “Psychological First Aid By Nurses, For Nurses: A Conversation With Alan ‘Tony’ Amberg,” PsychU Nurses Corner Section Advisor Tony Amberg, MS, MSN, APRN, PMHNP-BC, speaks with a team of nurses. Urging them to relinquish fear, sorrow, pain, and self-doubt, he reminds them that their work as nurses during the coronavirus pandemic is noble.
The Role Of Nurses In Reducing Stigma Associated With Mental Health Conditions
May 2020
Nurses are uniquely qualified to educate and inform others, provide support, and take specific action to reduce stigmatizing practices and attitudes. In this webinar, Alan “Tony” Amberg, MS, MSN, APRN, PMHNP-BC, and Hannah Phillips-Hall, MSN, PMHNP-BC, discuss the importance of the nurse in educating on stigma associated with mental health conditions and raising awareness about behavioral health.