Archived Webinar: COVID-19 and Behavioral Health: Interventions that Don't Require Behavioral Health Training

Speaker:

Francine Cournos, MD
Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
Co-Principal Investigator - Northeast/Caribbean AIDS Education and Training Center

Objectives

1) Increase awareness of life-threatening medical illnesses that present with psychiatric symptoms.

2) Differentiate between mental distress and mental disorders.

3) Employ strategies that don’t require behavioral health training to help patients in distress during the COVID-19 pandemic.