Subject: Manitoba Psychological Society Spring Workshop on DSM-V

On Friday, June 7, 2013, the Manitoba Psychological Society is holding its 2013 Spring Institute titled Developments in Mental Disorder Diagnosis: DSM-IV, DSM-V, and the Road Ahead. This day long workshop featuring Dr. Robert Krueger, a Hathaway Distinguished Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Minnesota and a member of the DSM-V Personality and Personality Disorder Working Group, will address the following learning objectives:

1. To understand major aspects of the history of psychiatric classification that led to the approach taken in DSM-IV. 2. To understand notable changes between DSM-IV and DSM-V, such as the removal of the multiaxial system. 3. To understand both the DSM-IV (copied in DSM-V Section II) and DSM-V Section III approaches to classifying personality disorders, as well as the conceptual underpinnings of these approaches. 4. To understand notable limitations of the DSM paradigm, current efforts to develop more empirically-based alternatives (e.g., the NIMH RDoC initiative), and the reasons why new empirically-based approaches are needed.

Please find attached a brochure (including a synopsis of the Institute and a Speaker Bio) and a poster advertising the workshop, Online registration for this exciting workshop is now available at www.mps.ca http://www.mps.ca/ .

MPS would like to thank Manitoba Public Insurance and the Worker's Compensation Board of Manitoba for sponsoring this Institute.

Kind regards,

Lesley Ritchie, Ph.D., C. Psych. Manitoba Psychological Society Director of Continuing Education Neuropsychology Service Department of Clinical Health Psychology Assistant Professor Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba Health Sciences Centre 771 Bannatyne Avenue Winnipeg, MB R3E 3N4 lritchie3@exchange.hsc.mb.ca 204-787-3878

Kelly Jorundson Winnipeg Chapter Society for Neuroscience R4046 - 351 Tache Avenue Winnipeg, MB R2H 2A6

Tel: 204.235.3939 Fax: 204.237.4092 Email: kjorund@sbrc.ca OR kjorund@yahoo.ca