61st Annual Meeting

October 18 - 25, 2014

Clinical Consultation Breakfast 4 (sold out)

Master Clinician: Harvey N. Kranzler, MD: The Psychotic Child and Adolescent: Difficulties in Assessment and Treatment

Harvey N. Kranzler, MD, is Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and has extensive experience in treating psychosis in children and adolescents, especially treatment resistant psychosis and the use of clozapine. This Clinical Consultation Breakfast focuses on issues of early detection of psychosis in the prodrome stage or Attenuated Psychosis Syndrome as well as in childhood onset schizophrenia with clinical examples as to how to assess the spectrum of presentations from autistic features, affective symptoms, early cognitive changes and pre-psychotic manifestations. This session also reviews the latest evidence-based treatment options for the prodrome of psychosis as well as for treatment resistant psychoses in children and adolescents with clinical case examples. There are opportunities for questions and participant's case discussion.