This Week: Strategies for Families Supporting People with Psychosis (Tue) & Treatments for BPD (Wed)

Published:
January 8, 2024

Culturally Responsive Care in Early Psychosis 3: Amanda Weber

Amanda Weber and host Joey Rodriguez discuss culturally responsive care for youth experiencing early psychosis. This podcast episode is sponsored by the New England Mental Health Technology Transfer Center Network (MHTTC).

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January 9

Family Matters: Strategies for families supporting people who have experiences labeled as psychosis

This session will inform participants about a variety of innovative strategies providers can share with families to assist them in supporting people who hear voices or experience other unusual beliefs or extreme states that are often labeled as psychosis. Internationally recognized educator, consultant, and presenter Cindy Hadge draws from her own experiences overcoming childhood trauma as well as her experiences supporting family members to fuel her passion and inform her work resulting in invaluable information and tools shared with participants. There will also be time for questions and discussion to close out this 1.5 hour workshop. 

 

Presenter: Cindy Hadge has become an internationally recognized educator providing training and consultations to mental health providers worldwide who are looking for innovative ways to approach voice-hearing and extreme states.

Join us on Tuesday, January 9, 2024 at 1 PM ET.

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January 10

Integrating Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Good Psychiatric Management for Borderline Personality Disorder 

This presentation will review the history of evidence-based treatments for borderline personality disorder and the components common to all effective treatments, with a specific focus on Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Good Psychiatric Management. In addition to explaining both treatments’ components, theory, and evidence base, this presentation will discuss the costs and benefits of each one and the situations in which they can be most effectively used.

 

Presenter: Dr. Choi-Kain is currently the Director of the Gunderson Personality Disorders Institute (GPDI), an internationally recognized center of training for empirically supported treatments for borderline personality disorder (BPD) and research on outcomes as well as the social cognitive mechanisms targeted in these interventions. 

Join us on Wednesday, January 10, 2024 at 12 PM ET.

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January 17

Changing the Conversation Webinar Series: Day One

Changing the Conversation is the official C4 Innovations podcast, where hosts and guests discuss critical and timely topics focused on equity, substance use, mental health, homelessness, and trauma. The New England MHTTC has sponsored episodes of the podcast that explore a variety of specific topics, including reaching and engaging Native youth, the importance and benefits of fostering an authentic and inclusive environment in the workplace, and honoring lived experience. Podcast host Ashley Stewart will share behind-the-scenes discoveries and lessons learned from fascinating conversations. Ashley will be joined by Ronitia Hodges, C4 Innovations Program Manager.

Join us on Wednesday, January 17, 2024 at 1 PM ET.

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January 17

Narrative Therapy: Poststructural and Culturally Sensitive Interviewing

Participants of this event will be able to:

  • Summarize the clinical significance of new information regarding the neurobiology and treatment of mental illness and comorbid chronic medical conditions, and integrate such data into their patient care.
  • Assess practice patterns relative to current best practices and modify their practice as appropriate and feasible.
  • Apply new developments in treatment methods to patients.

 

Presenter: M. Mookie C. Manalili is a psychotherapist, professor, and researcher with particular interest in suffering, embodiment, meaning-making, narratives, memory, and ethics. He is a psychotherapist in a private group practice, utilizing narrative therapy, psychoanalytic approaches, mindfulness traditions, and neuroscience psychoeducation.

Join us on Wednesday, January 17, 2024 at 12 PM ET.

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