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Category
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Event date
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Professional Workshop Series: Using the JUST Practice Framework to Inform Social Work Practice with Black Fathers
  • Minority Health
  • Workshop
  • 1.00 ACEP NBCC clock hours
  • 1.00 Category I credits for Social Workers
  • 1.00 Psychologists
  • 1.00 Participation
03/28/2025
$0.00
Black fathers often face systemic barriers that limit their engagement with health care and social services, including biases in practice, restrictive policies, and a lack of culturally responsive interventions. These challenges contribute to disparities in paternal involvement and well-being. The Just Practice Framework offers a justice-centered, critically reflective approach to social work, helping clinicians recognize and address these structural inequities. This presentation will equip attendees with concrete strategies to challenge biases, advocate for policy changes, and implement inclusive, strengths-based interventions that enhance engagement with Black fathers. By attending, clinicians will gain tools to shift their practice toward more equitable and effective support for Black fathers and their families.
Grand Rounds: Protest Psychosis: Race, Protest, and the Diagnosis of Schizophrenia
  • Grand Rounds
  • Mood Disorders
  • 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
04/04/2025
$0.00
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.
OCD & Anxiety Lecture Series: Treating Contamination OCD Using the Mastery Approach
  • Anxiety/OCD
  • Psychotherapy
  • Workshop
  • 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
04/11/2025
$0.00
Contamination OCD is a common but challenging-to-treat form of obsessive-compulsive disorder that represents roughly half of its cases. This program teaches clinicians how to treat contamination OCD using the functional-based Mastery treatment approach, a synthesis of exposure and response prevention (ERP), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), and emerging literature on the use of judicious safety behaviors to improve functioning in cases where triggers do not directly habituate. This is a humane and well-tolerated approach that is well suited to contamination OCD cases such as disgust, neurodiversity and more, and has now been taught and implemented at major clinics nationwide. This presentation will teach clinicians how to use the Mastery approach, a functional approach to ERP designed for cases that do not respond to traditional ERP, such as disgust or other non-habituating triggers, neurodiversity, co-morbidities and more.
Professional Workshop Series: THE DEVELOPMENT OF MEANING: How Individual Worldviews Are Constructed in Relationships
  • Basic Science
  • Psychotherapy
  • Workshop
  • 1.50 ACEP NBCC clock hours
  • 1.50 Category I credits for Social Workers
  • 1.50 Psychologists
  • 1.50 Participation
04/25/2025
$0.00
Productive and meaningful therapy often hinges on a clear understanding of the worldview of the client. Deepened, more empathic understanding of clients would be enhanced by knowledge of how such individual worldviews arise and evolve. Such information about the construction of individual meaning systems is now available, based upon rigorous longitudinal research. The goal of this presentation is to summarize this emerging knowledge in a way that makes clear its clinical relevance.
Professional Workshop Series: Advancing Lived Experience Integration and Leadership in Mental Health Services Design, Implementation and Research
  • Basic Science
  • Psychotherapy
  • Workshop
  • 1.50 ACEP NBCC clock hours
  • 1.50 Category I credits for Social Workers
  • 1.50 Psychologists
  • 1.50 Participation
05/09/2025
$0.00
This workshop explores best practices for integrating lived experience into all facets of mental health service planning, design, implementation, and evaluation, with a particular emphasis on serious mental illness (SMI). Participants will gain practical strategies to ensure meaningful inclusion, moving beyond tokenism to foster true collaboration. The presenter will provide actionable insights for clinicians and administrators, equipping them with concrete methods to incorporate lived experience perspectives in ways that enhance service effectiveness and equity.
Grand Rounds: The Value of Person-Centered Cultural Assessment in Clinical Practice
  • Grand Rounds
  • Minority Health
  • 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
05/14/2025
$0.00
Without a person-center assessment of the relevant cultural aspects of the person’s identity, illness representations, treatment expectations, and social-structural impacts on vulnerabilities and resources, mental health practice often lacks the information to provide effective treatment. The Cultural Formulation Interview (CFI) is a protocol for asking individuals seeking mental health care about their and their families/friends’ views of their situation, cultural identity, past experiences of help seeking, and expectations for future care. It can be used as a culturally sensitive method to engage care recipients in mental health services and guide a comprehensive evaluation. This presentation discusses the development and content of the DSM-5-TR core CFI and briefly summarizes research on its 4 uses: data gathering, therapeutic effect, training, and systemic care. At the conclusion of the presentation, the participant will be able to understand the value of a cultural assessment in routine mental health care and incorporate a cultural assessment in their practice to improve engagement, diagnosis, and treatment planning.
Professional Workshop Series: Beyond DEI Creating a Culture of Belonging
  • Minority Health
  • Workshop
  • 1.00 ACEP NBCC clock hours
  • 1.00 Category I credits for Social Workers
  • 1.00 Psychologists
  • 1.00 Participation
05/30/2025
$0.00
How do we create spaces that go beyond DEI and focus on true belonging in our organizations and communities? This workshop explores the limitations of traditional DEI efforts and provides practical strategies for cultivating environments where individuals feel valued, heard, and empowered. through reflective exercises and actionable tools, participants will learn how to integrate belonging into their practice, policy-making, and client interactions. Participants will explore the key elements of belonging, identify barriers to inclusion, and learn actionable strategies to create a workplace culture that supports psychological safety, collaboration, and engagement. Attendees will leave with practical tools to cultivate a workplace where everyone can thrive.
Grand Rounds: Suicide Prevention and Resilience: Voices of Lived Experience
  • Grand Rounds
  • Suicide/Crisis
  • 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
06/04/2025
$0.00
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.
OCD & Anxiety Lecture Series: Medications Have Meaning: Strategies for Discussing OCD Medication with Clients to Engage Them in Treatment
  • Anxiety/OCD
  • Psychotherapy
  • Workshop
  • 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
06/20/2025
$0.00
Psychotherapists are powerful and often under-utilized allies in engaging our patients in effective use of psychiatric medication. Learn how effective communication between prescribers and psychotherapists can advance “treatment-resistant” patients forward while simultaneously enhancing clinician’s fulfillment in their work. Go beyond discussing neurotransmitters and into the heart of what taking psychiatric medication means to our patients. Address fears of dependency, loss of identity, weakness, and loss of control. Understand how attachment styles, medical trauma, and minority status predict medication side effects. Cultivate in patients an internal locus of control and self-advocacy skills to reduce side effect burden. Learn what information psychiatric medication prescribers really want to hear from psychotherapists and vice versa. Together, we are powerful allies in moving treatment forward. This presentation will help clinicians discuss medications in ways that empower their clients to more effectively engage in psychiatric treatment.

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