Week of April 10: Think Trauma Training & How NAMI can support patients and families

Published:
April 10, 2023

April 11 - 27

Think Trauma Training Series

The aim of Think Trauma: A Training for Working with Justice Involved Youth is to make creating trauma-informed juvenile justice systems easier to implement. Many youth in the juvenile justice system have survived horrific traumatic experiences including chronic exposure to violence that has profoundly shaped how they think, behave, and respond. Direct care professionals working with youth in juvenile justice-related facilities have very challenging and emotionally draining roles; they are responsible for preserving their safety and the safety of others and serve as parent, counselor, mentor, role model, disciplinarian, and advocate.

Goals of the Training 

  • To educate juvenile justice professionals about the impact of trauma on the development and behavior of youth in the juvenile justice system. 
  • To provide juvenile justice professionals with the knowledge and skills needed to: 
    • Respond appropriately to the behavioral and emotional challenges of traumatized youth 
    • Help traumatized youth develop the ability to recognize trauma or loss reminders 
    • Help traumatized youth recognize and develop their strengths 
    • Help traumatized youth recognize survival coping strategies and develop positive coping strategies needed to grow into healthy, productive, and functional adults 
    • Take care of themselves and seek support from others 
  • To learn strategies for supporting youth reintegration into the community
  • Understand the role of intergenerational, historical, and system-induced trauma on youth behavior 
  • Develop strategies for adjusting agency practices and procedures to more effectively address the impact of trauma on youth, their families, and staff 
  • Review the role of youth cultural experiences for building resilience among traumatized youth 

 

Join us for this four day training, on April 11 at 11 AM, April 13 at 11 AM, April 25 at 11 AM, and April 27 at 12 PM. Participants must sign up for all four days to complete the training. 

Register Here!

 

April 12

Lived Experience as Expertise: How NAMI can support patients and families

 

NAMI has many free support and educational programs. This talk by Ken Duckworth, MD, will review these programs and discuss NAMI's first book, You Are Not Alone, where people who have lived with mental health conditions use their names and share what they have learned. They do so to reduce the isolation and shame so common with mental health conditions and to make meaning of their experiences. Their lessons include ways they have found to live with symptoms, give to others, and build a life. Families who have learned to communicate and cope with loss also share what they learned. 

Ken Duckworth, MD, is the chief medical officer of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). Ken is board certified in adult psychiatry and child and adolescent psychiatry, and is an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He was previously acting commissioner and medical director at the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health. Ken has worked on an assertive community treatment team, and at an early psychosis program.

Join us on Wednesday, April 12, 2023 at 12 PM ET.

Register Here!

 

April 19

Transcultural Psychiatry: The Impact of Culture on Mental Health in a Globalization Era

Among the medical specialties, Psychiatry is one of the most sensitive to cultural influences. In this era of globalization with more access to communication, the world is more interconnected. People migrate more than before, and they bring with them their culture, values, and traditions. For mental health providers, diagnosing and treating some unexplained symptoms or syndromes can be at times very challenging. But it can be understood in a cultural context. Culture provides a framework to understand the cognitive, emotional, and overall behavioral expressions of people that could be pathological for one culture and not for another. With the cooperation of anthropology, social psychiatry, and cultural psychiatry-among others-we can understand the influence of culture in the regulation of thoughts, feelings, emotions, and idioms of distress. 

Upon completion of this event, participants will be able to:  

  • Become familiar with the important role of culture in psychiatry diagnosis and treatments. 
  • Be familiar with idioms of distress and somatization in psychiatry. 
  • Be familiar with some strategies and interventions through a clinical case of applying cultural principles to treat patients with mental illness. 

Join us on Wednesday, April 19, 2023 at 12 PM ET.

Register Here!

 

April 25

Reclaiming Native Psychological Brilliance: Wise Practices- April Event

United South and Eastern Tribes, Inc. and New England MHTTC would like to invite you and your staff to attend "Reclaiming Native Psychological Brilliance: Wise Practices," a Tribal Behavioral Health ECHO webinar series.Native Psychological Brilliance refers to the intelligence, strengths, balance, innate resources, and resilience of Native people. 

This no-cost telehealth series will be held on the fourth Tuesday of every month at 11:00 am Pacific/12:00 pm Mountain/1:00 pm Central/2:00 pm Eastern. Each session will be one hour in length and will provide an opportunity for participants to: 

  • Gain skills on strength-based approaches in partnership with Native People to enhance Native behavioral health
  • Discuss ways that Native brilliance is demonstrated and supports behavioral health
  • Learn about Native brilliance examples to share with behavioral health and other health care staff, as well as with local Tribal Nation citizens

The topic of April's session is: "Native Post-Traumatic Growth from Decolonized Perspective."

The concept of Native psychological brilliance will be celebrated through Native music video and Native spoken word performances as part of each session.

Join us on Tuesday, April 25, 2023 at 2 PM ET.

Register Here!

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