Women' Mood Disorders Through the Lifespan

Psychiatry Social Work Grand Rounds

Saturday, October 9, 2010  | 9 AM - 4:30 PM 

The Johns Hopkins Hospital’s Department of Psychiatry Social Work invites you to participate in an interactive and didactic experience, focusing on mood disorders in woman through the life span. Featuring several of the most prominent researchers and clinicians in the country, this Grand Rounds presentation will explore mood disorders such as depression, post-partum depression, and bipolar illness, through the clinical practice and experiences of young women, women of child-bearing age, and older women. The social work perspective and how these issues impact our practice will be addressed by social workers specializing in these specific areas.

GUEST SPEAKERS

Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison, Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, will speak about her personal and professional experiences working and coping with mood disorders. Dr. Jamison is world-renowned as one of the foremost authorities on manic-depressive illness. She is the author of the national best sellers An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness, Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide, Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament and Nothing was the Same: A Memoir. She is coauthor of the standard medical text on manic-depressive illness and author or coauthor of more than one hundred scientific papers about mood disorders, creativity, and psychopharmacology.

Dr. Elizabeth Kastelic, Assistant Professor and Director of the Young Adult and Adolescent Mood Disorder Inpatient Service and Outpatient Consultation Clinic.  Dr. Kastelic was named a ‘Top Therapist’ by Washingtonian magazine in 2009 and ‘Top Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist’ by Baltimore Magazine for 2009.  Dr. Kastelic will speak alongside Jeannette Bjorklund, LCSW-C, Psychiatry Social Worker of the Young Adult Inpatient Team at Johns Hopkins Hospital. They will focus the discussion on mood disorders affecting teenage and young adult females and the unique considerations that face this population.

Dr. Jennifer Payne, Assistant Professor and Co-director of the Women’s Mood Disorders Center at The Johns Hopkins Hospital will discuss her research and clinical experiences with women through pregnancy and after delivery. Dr. Payne specializes in women’s mood disorders and how hormonal changes affect mood. The issues surrounding post-partum depression will be highlighted.

Dr. Karen Swartz, Assistant Professor and Director of Clinical Programs at the Johns Hopkins Mood Disorders Center, along with Dr. Jennifer Payne, she founded the Women’s Mood Disorders Center at Johns Hopkins. She also directs the Adolescent Depression Awareness Program, a school-based program to educate high school students, faculty and parents about teenage depression. Dr. Swartz will address how mood disorders in older females present themselves and pose special treatment problems. She will be joined by Janet Bachur, LCSW-C, psychiatry social worker on the Geriatric Psychiatry Inpatient Unit at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Ms. Bachur will discuss the specific concerns that families address with this population. She will also interview the family member of a patient, who will bring to life the personal experience of living with an elderly mother who suffered from a mood disorder.

WRAP-UP: A panel discussion with psychiatry social workers from the various mood disorders services at Johns Hopkins and members of the audience will conclude our conference.

REGISTRATION

This event is free to Johns Hopkins social workers. The cost to Johns Hopkins Hospital affiliates is $55.00. The cost to others is $95.00

Registration and continental breakfast begins at 8:15 AM in the Turner Auditorium.

This program meets the criteria for six credit hours of Category I Continuing Education for Social Workers or Nurses  in Maryland. The Johns Hopkins Social Work Staff Development Committee is approved by the Maryland State Board of Social Work Examiners to sponsor continuing education for social workers.

All proceeds benefit the Elaine Lee Patient Assistance Fund for Johns Hopkins Psychiatry Social Work patients.

Jane Welch at 410-955-6694 or jwelch@jhmi.edu

Make checks are payable to JHH Psychiatry Social Work. Mail checks to:  

Social Work Grand Rounds 
JHH Psychiatry Social Work 
Meyer 3-118  
600 N. Wolfe Street  
Baltimore, MD 21287

We will also be accepting registrations on-site.

DIRECTIONS AND PARKING

The Turner Auditorium is located at the corner of Rutland Avenue and Monument Street. We recommend parking at the Rutland garage which is $11 per day and directly across from the auditorium. Handicapped parking is also available in the Rutland garage.

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The Johns Hopkins Department of Psychiatry Social Work presents:
 
Women’s Mood Disorders through the Lifespan
Saturday, February 6, 2010
9:00am – 4:00pm
Registration begins at 8:15 am
The Johns Hopkins Hospital                             Turner Auditorium
All profits benefit the Elaine Lee Patient Assistance Fund for Johns Hopkins Psychiatry Social Work Patients.