Grand Rounds: Suicide Prevention and Resilience: Voices of Lived Experience

Most lectures on suicide assume an academic perspective by focusing exclusively on research related to suicide or clinical disorders associated with suicide. This presentation will take a different perspective by presenting information about evidence-based strategies for suicide prevention and then hearing from three survivors of suicide attempts about their experiences with some of these strategies. The participants will learn about the non-linear and unexpected path each survivor took to recover from their intense suicidality. What worked, what didn’t, and how unexpected interventions and social connection contributed to traditional treatments. The testimonies of the survivors will be honest in their appraisal of the behavioral health system, and the effort and commitment required to achieve recovery. The important takeaway of the presentation is that no single treatment for suicidality is effective for all patients, and each patient will experience periods of trial and error as they search for the treatment that is most effective for them. Ultimately, each person finds treatments that support their functionality realizing that treatments for suicidality are often not fully curative.
Category
- Grand Rounds
- Suicide/Crisis
Format
- Synchronous Distance Learning
- Live Webinar
Credits
- 1.50 ACEP NBCC clock hours
- 1.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 1.50 Category I credits for Social Workers
- 1.50 Psychologists
- 1.50 MNA Contact Hours for Nurses
- 1.50 Participation
Event date June 4, 2025
Cost $0.00
Grand Rounds: Protest Psychosis: Race, Protest, and the Diagnosis of Schizophrenia

Battles over the role of “race” in education and the structures that uphold racial privilege and inequity burst into the national spotlight in the 2020s. But the origins of the debate, and the politics that undergird it, track back decades, and play out in unexpected ways. In this thought-provoking talk, Dr. Metzl provides an analysis of how, within the sociopolitical context of the 1960s and 1970s, the intersection of race and mental health altered the way that mental illness was diagnosed, understood, and treated in the United States. Once considered a nonthreatening disease that primarily targeted white middle-class women, Metzl provides an historical exploration of how schizophrenia became associated with the perceived hostility, rebellion, mistrust, and violence of Black men during the Civil Rights movement.
Category
- Grand Rounds
- Mood Disorders
Format
- Synchronous Distance Learning
- Live Webinar
Credits
- 1.50 ACEP NBCC clock hours
- 1.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 1.50 Category I credits for Social Workers
- 1.50 Psychologists
- 1.50 MNA Contact Hours for Nurses
- 1.50 Participation
Event date April 4, 2025
Cost $0.00
Grand Rounds: Visual Thinking Strategies for Health Professionals

The arts and humanities play a fundamental role in health professions education. Integrating A&H pedagogical methods into health professions education supports clinical skill mastery, perspective taking, personal insight, and social advocacy. This highly interactive talk will focus on Visual Thinking Strategies, an evidence-based arts and humanities method that enhances individual attributes crucial to clinical care, including implicit bias awareness and critical thinking, while contributing to inclusive learning spaces by minimizing pre-existing hierarchies and fostering team cohesion. Attendees will have the opportunity to participate in a Visual Thinking Strategies discussion and reflect together on how Visual Thinking Strategies supports the development of clinically relevant attributes, as well as facilitative teaching and leadership skills, informed by an understanding of the method’s key elements.
Category
- Basic Science
- Conceptual Psych
- Grand Rounds
Format
- Synchronous Distance Learning
- Live Webinar
Credits
- 1.00 ACEP NBCC clock hours
- 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 1.00 Category I credits for Social Workers
- 1.00 Psychologists
- 1.00 MNA Contact Hours for Nurses
- 1.00 Participation
Event date March 18, 2025
Cost $0.00
Grand Rounds: Psychedelics on the Edge: Experiences with Difficult to Treat Depression

Psychedelic therapy is quickly gaining recognition as a possible treatment for psychiatric illness across much of the diagnostic spectrum. This talk will focus on the early evidence for the safety and efficacy of psychedelic therapy within patients with particularly difficult to treat presentations of depression including bipolar type II depression, depression with chronic active suicidal ideation and severely treatment resistant depression. Insights will be shared from the experience of a master clinical researcher as he explored the use of psilocybin.
Category
- Grand Rounds
- Mood Disorders
Format
- Synchronous Distance Learning
- Live Webinar
Credits
- 1.00 ACEP NBCC clock hours
- 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 1.00 Category I credits for Social Workers
- 1.00 Psychologists
- 1.00 MNA Contact Hours for Nurses
- 1.00 Participation
Event date March 12, 2025
Cost $0.00
Workshop: Treating Chronic Suicidality and Self-Harm in an Outpatient Setting

Chronic high-risk suicidality and self-harming behaviors present a great challenge in clinical practice. Often individuals find themselves frequently cycling through inpatient hospitalization as they are assessed as too high-risk to be treated in an outpatient setting. These hospitalizations can be lifesaving in emergent situations with a focus on means restriction and acute stabilization. At the same time, hospitalization may not be able to address the underlying cycles and longer-term psychological treatment needed to address and change future acts of suicide. Furthermore, hospitalization can inadvertently become a reinforcing factor in difficult to change behavior. In this talk we will use Dialectical Behavioral Therapy theory and strategies to identify how we can effectively treat individuals struggling with high-risk thoughts, feelings, and behaviors in an outpatient setting.
Category
- Grand Rounds
- Suicide/Crisis
Format
- Synchronous Distance Learning
- Live Webinar
Credits
- 1.50 ACEP NBCC clock hours
- 1.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 1.50 Category I credits for Social Workers
- 1.50 Psychologists
- 1.50 MNA Contact Hours for Nurses
- 1.50 Participation
Event date March 7, 2025
Cost $0.00
Grand Rounds: Group Dynamics and the Psychoanalytic Hospital

This presentation explores the role of psychoanalytically-informed, hospital-based care in the diagnosis and treatment of psychiatry’s most treatment-refractory patients. Object relations theory and Bion’s exposition of group psychological processes inform an understanding of transference-counter transference phenomena which endow the psychoanalytic hospital with its uniquely mutative potential.
Category
- Grand Rounds
- Psychotherapy
Format
- Synchronous Distance Learning
- Live Webinar
Credits
- 1.00 ACEP NBCC clock hours
- 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 1.00 Category I credits for Social Workers
- 1.00 Psychologists
- 1.00 MNA Contact Hours for Nurses
- 1.00 Participation
Event date February 26, 2025
Cost $0.00
Grand Rounds: Control the Controllables: The Psychological Process for Success in Sports and Beyond

For elite athletes, high achieving students and professionals, the pressure of school, sports, work, friends, family, including many other things out of our control can be incredibly overwhelming. Typical emotions include helplessness, hopelessness, discouragement, and demoralization. These experiences can mimic and even precipitate mental illness like Major Depression or Anxiety Disorders. Despite the chaos, we have the power to be happy and successful when we simplify and focus our attention on the things that remain in our control
This presentation will discuss modern trends in competitive athletics, identify and address associated mental health vulnerabilities, and teach actionable takeaways focusing on effort, attitude and gratitude to successfully navigate challenges with competitive environments, learn from setbacks, build confidence and maximize enjoyment.
Category
- Athletes
- Grand Rounds
Format
- Synchronous Distance Learning
- Live Webinar
Credits
- 1.00 ACEP NBCC clock hours
- 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 1.00 Category I credits for Social Workers
- 1.00 Psychologists
- 1.00 MNA Contact Hours for Nurses
- 1.00 Participation
Event date February 12, 2025
Cost $0.00
Grand Rounds: Military Cultural Competence

This lecture is for mental health providers who want to develop a better understanding about how military culture can impact patients’ experience of their symptoms and of mental health treatment. It provides an overview of military culture and cultural competence, with a focus on the short comings of a sociologic approach to cultural competence. The benefits of a patient centered approach utilizing the cultural formation interview (CFI) from the DSM-5-TR is then introduced, along with an overview of efforts to develop a military version of the CFI, to include it’s recent inclusion in the DSM-5-TR. Participants are then challenged with clinical cases involving military patients that benefit from utilization of the military version of the CFI.
Category
- Community Mental Health
- Grand Rounds
Format
- Synchronous Distance Learning
- Live Webinar
Credits
- 1.00 ACEP NBCC clock hours
- 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 1.00 Category I credits for Social Workers
- 1.00 Psychologists
- 1.00 MNA Contact Hours for Nurses
- 1.00 Participation
Event date January 29, 2025
Cost $0.00
Grand Rounds: Dietary Modulation of Glutamate as a Novel Treatment for Mental Illness

There is excellent emerging data on the contribution of ultra-processed foods to mental health outcomes (and other medical conditions). Ultra-processed food tends to contain a high number of food additives. One class of food additives in particular, flavor enhancing food additives, tend to create an unnatural attraction to these processed foods, while also having the ability to affect nervous system functioning in certain individuals. The main component of these additives is glutamate, an amino acid which has the ability to stimulate neurons in the tongue (making food taste better) while also having the ability to affect nervous system function elsewhere. This presentation will teach clinicians about this dietary exposure and how it has been tied to mental health disorders. Currently, clinicians do not receive training in nutrition, and thus, are unable to offer advice in this area. This talk will educate attendees about the role of glutamatergic neurotransmission in mental health and will also provide easy-to-use tools for helping people change their eating behaviors.
Category
- Basic Science
- Grand Rounds
Format
- Synchronous Distance Learning
- Live Webinar
Credits
- 1.00 ACEP NBCC clock hours
- 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 1.00 Category I credits for Social Workers
- 1.00 Psychologists
- 1.00 MNA Contact Hours for Nurses
- 1.00 Participation
Event date January 15, 2025
Cost $0.00