Please join us for this SAMHSA sponsored webinar developed under contract by the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors and presented by the National Council for Behavioral Health.

This webinar will explore how mental health and substance use treatment providers currently care for women with co-occurring first episode psychosis (FEP), serious mental illness (SMI), and substance use disorder (SUD); and, what questions remain in relation to treating this population of women with complex presentations. Also of note is the high prevalence of ACEs in women and the ways to address this in care. Specific observations from our treatment areas note that: (a) women are underrepresented (SAMHSA TEDS Report – April 3, 2014), (b) women leave treatment early, and (c) care environments can be experienced by some women as re-traumatizing. Understanding processes that contribute to gender biases within the contexts of access and treatment is essential. The speakers will identify specific knowledge gaps and potential areas for improvement from a research and clinical standpoint.

Presenters:

• Kirsten Bolton, MSW, McLean OnTrack Program Director
• Kelly Carlson, Professional Development Specialist and Research Associate at McLean Hospital
• Carolyn Chance, RN, BSN, works in the Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorders unit at McLean Hospital

Please join us for this SAMHSA sponsored webinar, developed under contract by the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors and presented by the National Alliance on Mental Illness.

To achieve and sustain mental health, individuals with serious mental illness need access to an array of treatment options and need to be actively engaged in their own treatment and recovery support plan. Person and family centered care puts consumers at the center of the planning process. This method involves a collaborative and strengths-based approach that relies on understanding the preferences and abilities of the individual seeking treatment and their support systems in order to tailor a personal plan for success.

During this webinar, participants will learn more about person and family centered care. Presenters will share tips for engaging individuals and their family members in the treatment planning process, and stories of success. They will also share resources for implementing and encouraging the practice of person and family centered care.

Topics and themes:

• Mental health and recovery
• Peers
• Family and caregivers

Presenters:

• Teri Brister, PhD, Director of Information & Support at NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness.
• Ken Duckworth, M.D., NAMI Medical Director and Assistant Clinical Professor at Harvard University Medical School

Please join us for this SAMHSA sponsored webinar developed under contract by the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors .

Recovery-Oriented Cognitive Therapy (CT-R) is a theoretically-driven, evidence-based approach that operationalizes recovery, resiliency, and empowerment for individuals who experience serious mental health challenges. Beck’s cognitive model guides the development of a positive and personal life-space — accessing and strengthening one’s best self, actively contributing and enjoying others, richly building aspirations to fill the future with hope and purpose — and provides insight into often complex challenges that get in the way of living a life of one’s choosing. Providers become powerful partners — meeting individuals where they are at, accessing adaptive modes of living, instilling daily living with purpose, and collaboratively developing resiliency in the face of life’s inevitable stress. CT-R assists in the successful integration of adaptive beliefs and confidence that enables individuals to thrive.

CT-R is readily teachable and has been successfully implemented across settings (hospital, residential, case management team, outpatient clinic, veterans’ administration) and formats (individual therapy, group therapy, team-based, milieu). The webinar will focus on the science supporting the model, the basic protocol, as well as successful implementation in mental health systems to promote culture change and continuity of care. The webinar will use examples from SAMHSA’s Transformation Transfer Initiative’s six projects in Georgia, Massachusetts, Montana, New Jersey, New York, and Vermont.

Presenters:

• Paul M. Grant, Ph.D. – Research Assistant Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry at the Aaron T. Beck Psychopathology Research Center
• Ellen Inverso, Psy.D. – Director of Clinical Training and Education of the Beck Recovery Training Network at the Aaron T. Beck Psychopathology Research Center

Every September, SAMHSA sponsors Recovery Month to increase awareness and understanding of mental and substance use disorders and celebrate the people who recover.

September is National Suicide Prevention Month. All month, mental health advocates, prevention organizations, survivors, allies, and community members unite to promote suicide prevention awareness.

Please join us for this SAMHSA sponsored webinar developed under contract and presented by the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors (NASMHPD).

In this webinar we will continue our exploration of important issues related to successful transition from first episode programming.  In Part 1 of this series we identified concerns with the long term maintenance of the improved outcomes that are routinely found for clients served in FEP programs.  The longer term follow-up literature suggests that many of these gains may be lost over time.  We featured research that demonstrated the benefits of extending a program to 5 years and some step down or extension strategies that are being explored by two US FEP programs.  In Part 2 we’ll take another look at the follow-up literature, present some results from national evaluation of FEP programs regarding transition practices and consumer’s thoughts about leaving FEP programs. We will then lead a discussion of the many clinical, financing, research and policy issues that should be addressed in developing strategies to help assure long term benefits of FEP programming.

Presenters:

• David Shern, Ph.D. Senior Public Health Advisor, National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors
• Lisa Dixon, M.D. Professor of Psychiatry, Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric Institute
• Steven Dettwyler, Ph.D. Public Health Analyst, Center for Mental Health Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

Telepsychiatry offers the ability to increase access to care for patients with SMI though remote, video, and virtual visits. Today it is increasingly easy to offer your patients telepsychiatry services, and this webinar will offer an introduction focusing on use cases for SMI. Topics covered will include the history and background of telepsychiatry, trainings available today, legal and reimbursement issues, technical considerations, as well as practice and clinical issues. Relevant research at the intersection of SMI and telepsychiatry will also be discussed as relevant to each of the topics.

Presenter: John Torous, MD, MBI, Harvard Medical School

For complete details visit: SMIadviser.org/telepsychiatry

A time to share resources and stories, as well as promote suicide prevention awareness.

A time to remember those affected by suicide, to raise awareness, and to focus efforts on directing treatment to those who need it most.

The National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors (NASMHPD) Annual Meeting will be held in conjunction with the 2019 International Initiative for Mental Health Leadership (IIMHL) and the International Initiative for Disability Leadership (IIDL) Leadership Exchange from September 11 – 14 in Washington D.C.

Visit https://www.nasmhpd.org/content/nasmhpd-annual-2019-meeting-iimhl-iidl-sponsorship for information on Sponsor or Exhibit Opportunities.

Do the words “evidence-based practice” make you squirm with confusion or irritation? When someone describes their psychiatric rehabilitation services as “evidence-based” are you embarrassed to ask why? This webinar will empower participants to become more confident consumers of evidence. We will demystify the terms evidence-based practice, evidence-based medicine, and look under the hood to see how services are declared evidence-based. We will use real-world examples to help you think critically about evidence and to become more comfortable asking questions. We will also explore how recovery concepts intersect with the principles of evidence-based medicine and promote choice.

Presenter: Sandra Resnick, PhD, Yale University School of Medicine; Department of Veteran Affairs Northeast Program Evaluation Center (NEPEC), Office of Mental Health and Suicide Prevention

For complete details visit: SMIadviser.org/evidence

Many states utilize mobile crisis teams (MCTs), but the inclusion of peer support on teams is a relatively new addition. A MCT is committed to decreasing unnecessary incarceration as a result of a mental health crisis, decreasing unnecessary hospitalizations, providing safe, compassionate and effective responses to individuals experiencing a mental health crisis, increasing their participation with mental health providers by problem solving barriers, increasing knowledge of local resources, and increasing public safety. It is frequently difficult to engage individuals living with serious psychiatric conditions in treatment and perhaps even more so during a brief encounter with a MCT. Peer support specialists have proven to be highly effective in providing a sense of safety, respect, and personal agency for people experiencing a crisis in the community. This webinar will review MCT peer support engagement techniques and their outcomes that can result in lowered rates of hospitalization and/or incarceration.

Presenter: Patrick Hendry, Mental Health America

For complete details visit: SMIadviser.org/crisisteam

The Zero Suicide framework is an evidence-informed comprehensive set of practices and tools that aims to improve care and outcomes for all patients at risk of suicide within health and behavioral health care delivery systems. This webinar will provide an overview of the Zero Suicide framework and describe its core elements. This includes the key clinical, organizational, and continuous quality improvement components that comprise the Zero Suicide framework. Clinical components that are particularly relevant for individuals with serious mental illness (SMI), such as special considerations for suicide risk identification and engagement in suicide prevention interventions will be discussed.

Presenters:

• Adam Chu, MPH, Education Development Center
• Kim Walton, MSN, APRN, Education Development Center

For complete details visit: SMIadviser.org/zero-suicide

Get jazzed for #PMHNCon this October 2-5! Set in the heart of the Birthplace of Jazz, the conference will deliver dynamic presentations and fun connecting with fellow psychiatric-mental health nurses.

A one-day, clinically focused pre-conference on innovative early psychosis care.

APA, NIMH, SAMHSA, and SMI Adviser are partnering with PEPPNET (Psychosis-Risk and Early Psychosis Program Network) to bring the second National Conference on Advancing Early Psychosis Care in the United States to IPS with the theme, “The Complexities of Real-World Care.”

This event will pull together a diverse group of speakers, including national experts in coordinated specialty care implementation comprised of:

• clinical experts,
• mental health policy leaders, and
• people who themselves have experienced psychosis and recovery.

Keynote speakers, workshops and panel presentations will cover a wide range of topics and provide clinicians with quality tools that can be implemented in the care of individuals with clinical high risk (CHR) or early psychosis.

IPS highlights innovations in clinical services to better meet the needs of all populations–and vulnerable communities in particular–through an interactive program with engaging topics and session formats.

World Mental Health Day is observed on 10 October every year, with the overall objective of raising awareness of mental health issues around the world and mobilizing efforts in support of mental health. The Day provides an opportunity for all stakeholders working on mental health issues to talk about their work, and what more needs to be done to make mental health care a reality for people worldwide.

The Treatment Advocacy Center will be hosting the first ever National Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT) Symposium on October 10-11 in Columbus, Ohio. The free event will be open to teams from communities throughout the country interested in developing a new program or improving one already in existence.

The symposium will:

• Showcase model Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT) programs;
• Highlight the core elements of effective programs;
• Emphasize the importance of treatment engagement using the “black robe effect” and support and encouragement by the treatment team;
• Offer a road map on how to implement an AOT program and improve and sustain existing programs; and
• Provide an opportunity for judges, mental health professionals, attorneys, advocates, family members and individuals living with mental illness, to hear from and discuss concerns, challenges and successes with their counterparts.

Online registration for the 66th Annual Meeting will open August 1, 2019 for AACAP members and August 8, 2019 for non-members. Be sure to register early to attend all your preferred events.

ACLP members and non-members have the opportunity every November to gather in a warm part of the U.S. for education, inspiration, and camaraderie and fun at the ACLP Annual Meeting. For 2019, ACLP President Rebecca Weintraub Brendel, JD, MD, FACLP, and Scientific Program Committee chair Madeleine Becker, MA, MD, FACLP, have chosen the theme The Future of the Subspecialty, a topic which will serve as a springboard for many exciting presentations and a great meeting.

The Annual Meeting and Scientific Symposium provides the latest scientific developments in Addiction Psychiatry for physicians and allied health professionals who treat patients with substance use disorders and mental disorders. The meeting is structured to encourage interaction among clinicians from various disciplines, approaches, and settings.