Tue, Sep 15
|Zoom workshop
Diagnostic Tune-Up: Avoiding Bipolar Blind Spots
CE Eligible (APA) – 2; *You must be present for the entire workshop to qualify for CE Credits. Audience: Professionals who have formal postgraduate education in psychological assessment, Graduate students Instructional Level: Intermediate
Time & Location
Sep 15, 2026, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT
Zoom workshop
About the event
Bipolar disorder is not another name for “mood swings.”
Clinicians rarely miss the depression. Mania and hypomania are where diagnostic reasoning more often begins to wobble. Irritability, reduced sleep, impulsive behavior, and intense emotional reactions may appear in bipolar disorder—but none is specific enough to establish it. A person who cannot sleep is not necessarily experiencing a decreased need for sleep. Rapid, “on and off like a light switch” reactivity does not have the temporal quality of a sustained manic episode. And not every impulsive purchase represents the kind of consequential risk-taking associated with mania.
Trauma can complicate the picture even further. Hyperarousal and trigger-linked reactions may be severe, dangerous, and genuinely life-altering while still being fundamentally different from mania. Screening for PTSD is not an optional side trip in the differential diagnosis; without it, clinicians may recognize the intensity of the presentation while misunderstanding what is driving it.
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Tickets
General Admission
$199.00
Total
$0.00
Registration Information & Policies
1. Because of the nature of some of the workshops, particularly those related to psychological testing and assessment, you may be asked for your degree/training, your license state, and license number for purposes related to test security. Julie A Keen, LLC reserves the right to disinvite participants if they do not meet prerequisite qualifications for a training (and will provide a refund, as appropriate).
2. If you require accommodations to fully experience the workshop, please include that information as part of your registration, and every effort will be made to implement reasonable requests for accommodations.
3. Because the CE opportunities are predominantly conducted by Julie Keen, Psy.D., the organization has secured the agreement of volunteer psychologists that may be contacted if there is a conflict of interest with the instructor/owner of the organization. If you have a complaint about a presenter, conditions of training, or the company, please consider providing feedback directly. Every attempt at active listening will be utilized to make providing feedback a positive experience. If direct feedback is not an option, or if you are unsatisfied with the conversation, you can submit a complaint to: JKPsyDFeedback@gmail.com where it will be received by a psychologist volunteer who will keep your identity anonymous, unless you explicitly ask otherwise. See full Complaint Procedure here.
4. In order to receive CE Credit, you must be present for the entire workshop. Participant attendance will be monitored at intervals throughout the workshop. Refunds for incomplete workshop attendance will not be offered except for the most extenuating circumstances.
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6. Unless otherwise indicated specifically, Dr. Keen and the organization of Julie A Keen, LLC does not receive any commercial support, nor does the educational activity receive commercial support.