Online Workshop: Get the Diagnosis Right with Julie A. Fast

What’s new? An online workshop with best-selling author, coach and mental health continuing education trainer Julie A. Fast for parents, partners and health care professionals on how to get a correct diagnosis for a loved one or client.  Julie will teach you how to efficiently document and share symptoms with psychiatric health care professionals to get treatment started and continued for a loved one or client.

After this 90 minute workshop, you will have a clear picture on what direction to take in oder to find the RIGHT help for a loved one. Julie covers the following in the workshop:

1) Bipolar disorder symptoms and types.

2) How bipolar differs from anxiety, psychotic and personality disorders.

3) The role psychosis plays in bipolar.

4) The symptoms of schizoaffective disorder.

5) The symptoms of schizophrenia that differ from bipolar.

6) The role cannabis plays in a diagnosis.

7) How to correctly report symptoms to health care professionals.

8) Why a precise diagnosis matters and what you can do to help a loved one or client get the right treatment. 

This class is part one of a five part series on how to get a loved one into professional, compassionate and effective treatment.  Julie will also explain how you can use her Health Cards and the strategies in Loving Someone with Bipolar Disorder and Take Charge of Bipolar Disorder to talk about symptom management with a loved one.

The Get the Diagnosis Right workshop includes homework to help you prepare for the session and a lively Q&A discussion during the workshop with Julie where you can ask about your specific situation. This class is usually the first appointment Julie has with private clients. The cost of the class is a 60% savings over Julie’s regular fees.

Cost:  $55

Click on the date that works for you to register and reserve your spot. This is the same class with three different times. You do not need to register for three classes. Class size is limited.  Please note the times carefully. They are listed in PST and EST. Please adjust for your time zone when choosing your workshop.

Saturday, July 21st   9:00- 10:30 AM PST           (Noon- 1:30 PM EST) 

Sunday, July 29th  4:00 – 5:30 PM PST                (7:00- 8:30 PM EST) 

 

The class is held online at Zoom.com  with a live video feed where Julie shares her knowledge and then answers questions from the audience about specific situations.  After registering, you will receive an email from Julie with the homework and all of the sign in information needed in order to participate in the workshop. Please note- this is an online workshop where Julie will be live own video. She will show slides and talk about the topics as you follow along and participate when Julie asks for input.  This is interactive and requires a computer or smart phone.

 

A note from Julie: I was trained by one of the best diagnostic minds in the world, in my opinion! my coauthor Dr. John Preston. Over the past 16 years he has taught me the questions to ask and the information health care professionals need in order to find a diagnosis that helps a person find helpful treatment. John and I both see the diagnosis as a tool for finding stability. It isn’t a label or a curse. It’s simply a tool.  I then took John’s teachings and applied them to my one on one coaching over the past ten years. After working with thousands of parents, partners and health care professionals, I came up with a system that I now use with all of my individual clients.  I can no longer keep up with the one on one demand, so the group classes are now ready to shine! 


If you are unfamiliar with my work, I’m the author of Loving Someone with Bipolar Disorder: Understanding and Helping Your Partner, Take Charge of Bipolar Disorder, Get it Done When You’re Depressed and more. I’m a columnist and blogger for BP Magazine, a bipolar and mental health specialist for the Sharecare.com website and a blogger for Psychology Today. I am CEU (continuing education) certified and have trained health care professionals for over 15 years on various mental health topics. My work does not replace the work of health care professionals in any way. I am a part of a team that helps a person with mental health symptoms find the right care. 

Getting a correct diagnosis for a loved one or client is life changing. It repairs families, offers hope, improves a professional practice, prevents encounters with law enforcement and ensures a stable and hopeful future for everyone.