INTERACTIVE VIDEO CONFERENCE AT SEMO

The department of social work at Southeast Missouri State University is sponsoring "Psychopharmacology: An Interactive Video Conference" Thursday on the Southeast campus.

The event will be held from 11:15 a.m.-2:45 p.m. in Crisp Hall's Dempster Auditorium.

Social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists, pharmacists, counselors, physicians, nurses and students in these disciplines are invited to attend.

The conference will allow participants to watch practitioners in action in three clinical vignettes: a psycho-educational workshop for families; two interdisciplinary team meetings; and a clinician discussing depression and its treatment with a female client.

Participants also will hear consultants discuss the vignettes and discuss: combined treatments for adults with mental illness; involving the family as a collaborator in treatment; contributions of social workers to interdisciplinary practice; knowledge of culture and ethnicity essential in treatment; and social workers as the primary clinicians in recognizing symptoms of mental illness and monitoring ongoing treatment.

Registered participants will receive a pack of resource materials. The conference will count for 3.5 hours of the 30-hour continuing education requirement for relicensing.

The registration fee, which includes a certificate of participation, is $10 if received by March 30 and $12 after that. The student registration fee, which requires an ID at the door, is $5 if received by March 30 and $7 after that.

Checks should be made payable to: Bill Thompson, acting chairman of the social work department, 213 Crisp Hall, Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, Mo., 63701.

For more information, call Thompson at (314) 651-2668 or Emy Glass at (314) 651-2004.