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The Northwest MHTTC invites you to read the second installment of our July newsletter. We continue to reflect upon the mental health experiences of Black, Indigenous and people of color. We share resources and events pertaining to the goals of this month of awareness. In addition, we describe our upcoming trainings and newest products as well as present resources from the Northwest ATTC, peer support resources, a report by the MHTTC Workforce Development Working Group on mental health workforce development and more.

Sarah Kopelovich, PhD, core faculty for the Northwest Mental Health Technology Transfer Center, conducted a virtual session at NAMICon on July 13, 2020: "CBT for Psychosis: Evidence-based Training Program for Family and Caregivers." Dr. Kopelovich is an Assistant Professor and holds a Professorship in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Psychosis (CBTp) in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington. She has served as the Principal Investigator on foundation-, state-, and federally funded projects related to implementation of evidence-based treatments for psychosis. She oversees the Northwest CBTp Network, is a founding member and communications officer for the North American CBTp Network. CBT for psychosis (CBTp), an evidence-based treatment for schizophrenia spectrum disorders, emphasizes the involvement of family members in the treatment course. In addition, best practice dictates that natural supports are engaged in broader team-based care efforts. Unfortunately, these recommendations are poorly aligned with common practice. Psychosis REACH (Recovery by Enabling Adult Careers at Home) is a training for family members in CBTp-informed principles and skills. With philanthropic support, Drs. Doug Turkington (Newcastle University), Kate Hardy (Stanford University), Maria Monroe-DeVita and Sarah Kopelovich (University of Washington) launched Psychosis REACH in the U.S. Roughly 200 family members participated in the May, 2019 training; 30 received intensive training and consultation, and Train the Trainer planning is currently underway with guidance from a local Family and Caregiver Advisory Board. Family members were referred from agencies that comprise Washington State’s CBTp Provider Network, as well as by those without CBTp-trained providers. This presentation reports on the mental health outcomes among trainees up to 4-months post-training, which suggest that the training was helpful in reducing depression, anxiety, caregiver fatigue, and in improving attitudes toward psychosis. Resources Presentation slide deck

On July 22, Martha Barbone, CPS, led the webinar "Peer Support Services to Address the Health and Wellness of People Living with Serious Mental Health Challenges." This presentation was supported through a grant awarded by Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). She reviewed: 1) health and wellness among people with mental health challenges; 2) benefits of peer support services; 3) program development using community-based participatory research; 4) summary of PCORI outcome research on peer services; and 5 ) implementation for peer support services. To access a copy of this presentation, click here.

The Family Peer Support: An Emerging Workforce Webinar airing 12-1 p.m. Thursday, August 20, will introduce family peer support as a profession, explore its roles and functions, and highlight specific training needs.   Visit the webinar web page to learn more.  

Recovery from SMI has been studied and documented by researchers, practitioners, and individuals with lived experience around the world and across time. Recovery is real. Recovery can be supported by practices and services that encourage participant engagement, community inclusion, valued social roles, and overall wellness. This webinar series will introduce you to recovery from SMI and many of the evidence-based and promising practices that support recovery.  This session focuses on the role of religion and spirituality in recovery.   Download and view presentation slides, resources, and transcript

Role of Religion and Spirituality in Recovery presentation slides and transcript Additional Resources: Well Together: Community Inclusion Fundamentals Developing Welcoming Faith Communities Helping People Connect to the Religious Congregations and Spiritual Groups of Their Choice: The Role of Peer Specialists

For a subset of individuals affected by COVID-19, events related to the global pandemic may lead to PTSD symptoms. For others, the pandemic and related stressors may exacerbate existing PTSD symptoms. This 1 hour webinar guides attendees through what the state of the science is to date on PTSD and COVID-19, and how it may affect implementation of treatment of existing or new PTSD symptoms.   Download the slides here.   Read the FAQs here.

This webinar focuses on behavioral lifestyle strategies for helping persons with serious mental illness (SMI) manage their weight. This includes using simple messaging and repetition to help ensure clients’ comprehension of weight loss strategies, setting high impact weight management behavioral goals, and tracking to increase client awareness and accountability. Objectives: Identify key lifestyle behaviors for weight management Learn the importance of using simple messaging and repetition when discussing weight management with persons with SMI Understand the value of "high impact" behavior goal setting Recognize the value of and strategies to increase client accountability   Presenter Dr. Gail Daumit is Samsung Professor of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and directs the Johns Hopkins ALACRITY Center for Health and Longevity in Mental Illness. Her work focuses on improving physical health and decreasing premature mortality in populations with serious mental illness using health services research, clinical trials, and implementation science methods.       Resources Presentation Physical Activity Readiness Questionnaire (PAR-Q) questionnaire  

The COVID-19 pandemic has presented a formidable challenge to care continuity for community mental health clients with serious mental illness. Providers have had to quickly pivot the modes of delivering critical services. What does this look like for practitioners who are delivering cognitive behavioral therapeutic (CBT) interventions for psychosis? This hour-long webinar serves to help practitioners consider critical intervention targets and high-yield motivational, cognitive, and behavioral strategies that are amenable to telephonic encounters, telehealth, or digital accompaniment. The strategies that were selected are appropriate for delivery in any combination of the above-mentioned modalities. Companion clinical tip sheets and self-directed CBT for psychosis learning resources will be provided to webinar participants. Objectives: Identify key psychosis drivers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Walk through high-yield strategies that are amendable to remote administration of CBTp or CBTp-Informed care Discuss evidence-based and evidence-informed digital augmentation of clincial services for individuals with psychosis   Download slides here   Resources COVID-19 PDF - COVID-19 Resources for those with Serious Mental Illness Cognitive Behavior Theory and Treatment Academy of Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies The Beck Institute Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Psychosis (CBTp) SMI Advisor - 1 hour webinar orientation 3 Hour E-Primer course on HealtheKnowledge North American CBTp Network Video - Stress Bucket Analogy  

Amid the current COVID-19 social distancing and stay at home orders many behavioral health providers have quickly shifted their primary interactions with clients to remote engagement. For some, this means using video conferencing software to simulate an in-person meeting. However, for many people access to a computer or tablet and reliable internet service is not available. For these individuals you may need to engage with them primarily, or solely, through the phone via voice calls or texts. This tool will provide information about strategies for quality engagement with clients using the phone.    This guidance can be applied to your work during the COVID-19 public health emergency, as well as when engaging with clients who may live in remote, rural, and otherwise difficult to access areas. Please note that it is best to talk with your agency's administration to determine any potential issues or concerns with providing remote services, including, but not limited to, HIPAA compliance, reimbursement, and authorizations. 

This guide features practical health and education resources in HHS Region 7 states — Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska — in response to a changing health and wellness landscape resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. Please use these resources as you see fit or share with colleagues, patients or clients.   Author(s): Robinson, L./Mid-America MHTTC  

  Michael Rowe, Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Citizens Community Collaborative (CCC) at Yale Program for Recovery and Community Health (PRCH), discusses the concept of Citizenship, which is “an applied theoretical framework for the social inclusion and participation of people with mental illnesses.” In this video, he introduces the story of Jim, a man dealing with mental illness who led to the inception of the Citizenship program.

Michael Rowe, Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Citizens Community Collaborative (CCC) at Yale Program for Recovery and Community Health (PRCH), discusses the concept of Citizenship, which is “an applied theoretical framework for the social inclusion and participation of people with mental illnesses.” He introduces the concept of 5 Rs of Citizenship and Belonging - rights, responsibilities, roles, resources, and relationships “that society offers its recognized members, along with a sense of belonging that is validated by others”

Recovery from SMI has been studied and documented by researchers, practitioners, and individuals with lived experience around the world and across time. Recovery is real. Recovery can be supported by practices and services that encourage participant engagement, community inclusion, valued social roles, and overall wellness. This webinar series will introduce you to recovery from SMI and many of the evidence-based and promising practices that support recovery.  This session focuses on the role of health and wellness in recovery.   This webinar covers the following objectives: Identify common health concerns for people with mental health conditions Describe social determinants and lifestyle choices that influence health and wellness Identify a wellness approach to health Understand the relationship between health and recovery Discuss strategies to support health and wellness   Role of Health and Wellness in Recovery Webinar Recording Role of Health and Wellness in Recovery Powerpoint Slides

Recording of the webinar titled "What Peer Support Specialists Need to Know about Telehealth in the Current Crisis - Part 1," originally held on April 6, 2020.   Download the slides

This presentation describes the real-world experience of one community in a rural state (Iowa) in enhancing their crisis services.  It is meant to complement the two prior webinars in this series, the first of which described a large and relatively resource-rich crisis system that has been up and running for some time, and the second describing what an “ideal crisis system” might look like.  This webinar is a case study of one community’s process of expanding their crisis services, highlighting some of the successes and how those were navigated, as well as some ongoing challenges. Slides available for download here. About the Presenter Michael Flaum, MD Michael Flaum, MD, Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, is the author or co-author of more than 100 publications, mostly reflecting his collaborative clinical research in schizophrenia in the 1990s. In 1999, he assumed the directorship of the Iowa Consortium for Mental Health, which aimed to harness the academic resources of Iowa’s universities to benefit the state’s public mental health system. His work since then has focused on efforts to optimize the quality, effectiveness and access to psychiatric services within publicly funded settings in a recovery-oriented manner. He currently serves as president of the American Association for Community Psychiatry.

Efforts to improve the quality and population reach of services for psychosis underscore the need to provide culturally and linguistically responsive care (CLR). With an emphasis on early psychosis, this presentation reviews clinical and organizational best practices to promote such care. Highlights of research findings that empirically support the need for CLR care are presented and largely focus on Latinx sub-populations. For example, patients’ and their caregivers’ narratives of illness (psychosis) and of its treatment, expectations of patients’ functioning, and the nature of care-giving relationships, alongside social disadvantages are known to be linked with early psychosis service utilization and course of illness. Implications for practice and research applicable to multiple service settings with varying service sectors are illustrated.  Resources Slides available for download here View references for this presentation   Speaker Jorge Ramírez García, PhD, cared over 30 years for a family member diagnosed with Serious Mental Illness. His professional activities have focused on service programming and research to strengthen family and community care of individuals with psychosis. His research has examined holistic frameworks of family and ethno-cultural factors that affect – and are affected by – individuals with psychosis as well as at-risk-youth. He serves on the editorial boards of Cultural and Ethnic Minority Psychology and Journal of Latinx Psychology. Jorge is a Research and Evaluation Scientist at Oregon Research Institute and has held Program and Research Analyst and Health Equity Coordinator positions at Greater Oregon Behavioral Health. He currently serves on the Cultural Competence and Continuing Education steering committee and the Health Equity Committee of the Oregon Health Authority.        

Recovery from SMI has been studied and documented by researchers, practitioners, and individuals with lived experience around the world and across time. Recovery is real. Recovery can be supported by practices and services that encourage participant engagement, community inclusion, valued social roles, and overall wellness. This webinar series will introduce you to recovery from SMI and many of the evidence-based and promising practices that support recovery.  This session focuses on peer services.   This webinar covers the following objectives: Mutual support and self-help What makes peer support unique Support vs. service Challenges in adapting support to service National practice guidelines   Peer Support Services Webinar Recording Peer Support Services Powerpoint Slides Peer Support Services References

Recovery from SMI has been studied and documented by researchers, practitioners, and individuals with lived experience around the world and across time. Recovery is real. Recovery can be supported by practices and services that encourage participant engagement, community inclusion, valued social roles, and overall wellness. This webinar series will introduce you to recovery from SMI and many of the evidence-based and promising practices that support recovery. This session focuses on illness management and recovery.   This webinar covers the following objectives: Learn what IMR is and its relation to recovery Become familiar with IMR contents and core values Identify goal-setting strategies Review strategies for IMR clinicians Motivational, educational, cognitive-behavioral   View session recording Illness Management and Recovery SAMHSA Toolkit  

This webinar provides a foundation regarding the importance of using appropriate terminology and language when working with everyone, including affectional and gender diverse individuals, as well as why language evolves. Additionally, we will begin to understand the current language to use when working with members of affectional and gender diverse populations.   Learning Objectives: Describe the reasons why using appropriate language is important. Recognize how language naturally evolves. Highlight and define appropriate language when working with affectional and gender diverse individuals.  Identify general guidelines for behavioral healthcare workers.      View session recording  

According to SAMHSA, “Permanent Supportive Housing offers voluntary, flexible supports to help people with psychiatric disabilities choose, get, and keep housing that is decent, safe, affordable, and integrated into the community. Central to the approach is a belief that people with psychiatric disabilities should have the right to live in a home of their own, without any special rules or service requirements.” (SAMHSA Brochure)   This webinar covers the following objectives:  Describe Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH)   Describe how PSH can support a recovery journey Identify the evidence-based and promising practices that can support PSH   View session recording Permanent Supportive Housing SAMHSA Toolkit SAMHSA Tools for Tenants

Supported Education is a recovery-oriented support service that increases the ability for people with mental illnesses to access and participate in postsecondary education. The principles of Supported Education are similar to those of Supported Employment. This webinar provides an overview of Supported Education, the need for this type of service, and what it looks like in practice.    Learning Objectives: Understand the rationale for Supported Education Define Supported Education Learn the practice principles of Supported Education Discuss the practice of Supported Education   View session recording

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Psychosis (CBTp) ePrimer is a 3-hour, self-paced course open to all types of providers, hosted on the HealtheKnowledge platform. It is designed to serve as a primer in foundational concepts related to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and its application to psychotic symptoms and experiences. Learners will start by testing their knowledge on a 30-item, adapted CBT quiz, and will then be guided to complete brief modules on the topics of: Psychosis education, CBT fundamentals, and Applying CBT to psychosis. Finally, learners will apply what they’ve learned to a practice and self-reflection exercise. Resources for further learning are provided.  Registration and Technical Support How to register for a course at HealtheKnowledge and how to get technical support   Trainer Sarah Kopelovich, PhD, is a forensically-trained, licensed clinical psychologist at the University of Washington School of Medicine, based at Harborview Medical Center. Dr. Kopelovich is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and holds a Professorship in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Psychosis. Her research aims to enhance implementation and dissemination strategies for psychosocial interventions indicated for individuals with Psychotic Spectrum Disorders. She leads the only CBT for psychosis Provider Network in the country, which has received continual state funding since 2015. She regularly conducts workshops, seminars, and professional consultation across the country for mental health practitioners in CBT for psychosis (CBTp) and CBTp-informed care; Coordinated Specialty Care for First Episode Psychosis and Assertive Community Treatment; and diagnostic, suicide, and violence risk assessment. Dr. Kopelovich is core faculty with the Northwest Mental Health Technology Transfer Center and currently serves as the Director of Training.         This online course was created by the Northwest Region 10 Mental Health Technology Transfer Center (MHTTC) with support from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). Want more information? Visit the Northwest MHTTC's Resource Library and Websites by Topic  and sign up for our monthly newsletter for regular updates about events, trainings, and resources available to the Northwest region.

  Crisis results from impediments to life goals that people believe they cannot overcome through customary choices and behaviors were presented. Specifically, for individuals with behavioral health disorders because crisis situations may place them at greater risk. This two-part interactive webinar series highlighted a variety of crisis situations, including but not limited to aggressive outbursts, disruptive behaviors, suicidal ideation, and homicidal ideation. Strategies for assessment and intervention, and the roles of different providers (e.g., doctors, psychologists, nurses, educators, social workers, counselors, and other behavioral health professionals) were examined and then these de-escalation skills were put into practice. Finally, there was a discussion on the importance of de-briefing post de-escalation events along with specifics regarding the implementation of putting these de-escalation techniques into practice. Session one Crisis Care: Assessment, De-escalation, and Prevention December 17, 2019 Slide deck Recording Session two Crisis Care: Practicing Interventions January 28, 2020 Slide deck