Understanding Bipolar Disorder

*This course has been pre-approved by NCTRC for 5 clock hours.

Learn to better understand and treat Bipolar Disorder. Learn how it is diagnosed and what symptoms they face, learn who is involved in the treatment team for treating this mental illness, learn helpful coping skills you can teach someone who has this disorder, and learn about effective Recreational Therapy treatment interventions/groups that you can use to help someone with this illness.
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Course Objectives

  • Learner will demonstrate adequate insight of how Bipolar Disorder is diagnosed

  • Learner will demonstrate adequate insight of the various types of Bipolar Disorder

  • Learner will demonstrate adequate insight of who is typically involved in treating Bipolar Disorder

  • Learner will demonstrate adequate insight of various coping skills for Bipolar Disorder

  • Learner will demonstrate adequate insight of how Recreational Therapy can be used to treat Bipolar Disorder

Nathan Lamaster, CTRS

Instructor Bio:

Nathan Lamaster is a nationally Certified Therapeutic Recreation Specialist (CTRS) from Tyler, Tx who has started a handful of both TR and non-TR businesses throughout his career as well as worked in a variety of TR settings as a practitioner. His current TR businesses are SMART CEUs Hub (an online, NCTRC pre-approved source for Recreational Therapy continuing education), CEU Cloud (a mobile phone application for managing your continuing education transcripts/CEUs), and the Rec Therapy Directory (an ultimate resource site for Recreational Therapists). He also has a passion for seeing TR entrepreneurship grow and is both the author of the book “The Entrepreneur Rec Therapist: The Business Education You Missed In School” as well as the creator/moderator for the TR Entrepreneur Connection Facebook group that connects RT entrepreneurs/educates them. Besides these TR businesses, he is also the inventor/creator of the Pill Puncher which is a medical device that opens up blister packs of medication both effectively and sanitarily.

Nathan Lamaster, CTRS

Founder Of SMART CEUs Hub