Rob Shieff
Rob is a general adult psychiatrist, working full-time in private practice in Ponsonby, Auckland. His main area of clinical interest relates to the evaluation and management of Mood Disorders – Major Depression, Bipolar Affective Disorder and the Anxiety Disorders. Rob has considerable experience in the pharmacological treatment of emotional disorders, and has undertaken extensive training in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, which forms the core of his psychological approach. Rob is also actively involved in a variety of Primary Mental Health teaching initiatives.
Strategies to Reduce the Risk of Recurrence in Depression Concurrent Workshop Repeated Saturday, 14 June 2014 Start 11:00am Duration: 55mins Room 3 Start 12:05pm Duration: 55mins Room 3 The natural history of depression is devastating. Although the prevalence of an initial episode of depression is high, the risk of suffering recurrent illness increases dramatically with each episode our patients endure. Recurring depressions tend to become progressively longer, more severe and more resistant to treatment. As a result, treating depression comprehensively needs to be a two-step process : firstly eliminating the current episode completely, and then reducing the risk of recurrent depression as much as we can. This workshop will systematically map out a cluster of straight forward and effective pharmacological, psychological and life-style strategies that you can use every day in your practice to help your patients to break the vicious cycle of recurring depression. DSM 5 - what are the main changes and their implications Concurrent Workshop Repeated Saturday, 14 June 2014 Start 2:00pm Duration: 55mins Room 2 Start 3:05pm Duration: 55mins Room 2 The DSM 5 : The King is dead. Long live the King. Whether you are for it or against it, the DSM IV has been the standard diagnostic reference used by the majority of Primary Practitioners and Mental Health specialists around the world for the last 20 years. Published in May last year, the DSM 5 is the culmination of a substantial body or research aimed at improving the reliability and utility of psychiatric diagnoses. Released in a blaze of professional and public attention, the manual immediately polarized its readers into enthusiastic advocates or vehement critics. This workshop will explain the main changes within the DSM 5 – looking at the rationale behind the modifications, and the chief differences in criteria for diagnosing the mental illnesses seen most commonly in Primary Practice. How these revisions may impact the delivery of Primary Mental Health Care in your consulting room will be discussed in simple and practical terms. Embitterment Main Session Sunday, 15 June 2014 Start 8:30am Duration: 25mins Baytrust Embitterment : When Good People Don’t Get What They Deserve Embitterment – persistent hopeless anger in the face of perceived injustice – is rife amongst the distressed, the disabled and the disaffected. So many of the people we see feel badly done by – they’ve been made redundant or overlooked for promotion , they’ve discovered that their partner has been cheating on them , they aren’t getting their entitlement from the ACC or their private insurer , they have an illness or an injury that prevents them from doing what they want to do. Despite this, embitterment often goes unrecognized, misunderstood or ignored. This seminar will lay out the fundamentals of bitterness, how it declares itself, and how we might be able to help this group of people to manage their difficulties more effectively.