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Stigma often prevents individuals from gaining awareness and understanding of suicide. Talking candidly about suicide with parents and caregivers can be difficult barrier to overcome when cultural stigma exist. Common misconceptions or cultural beliefs discourage many from seeking treatment, and many educators and individuals in helping professions are not convinced that suicide is a genuine health concern for African American communities. This educational training aims to raise awareness and understanding of suicidal behavior among African American adolescents (ages 14-24 years), as well as to provide individuals with strategies and resources to appropriately intervene with a young person considering suicide.
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The goal of this DVD is to give clinicians an overview of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) and Reality Therapy in working with angry, aggressive clients. Viewers will learn practical strategies on how to work with millennium youth to help them be more academically and socially successful. This training will be especially helpful to those who work with adolescents in a school setting or in a private practice.
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Many people, children and adults alike, suffer experiences that meet the definition of trauma. The impact of traumatic events on individuals varies but approximately one third of people experiencing trauma will require professional intervention. A definition of trauma is presented; the impact that trauma has on individuals described; and various ways to treat trauma introduced. Several evidence based interventions are included among the various treatment modalities discussed.
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Margaret Comford is the founder of the Midwest Trauma Treatment Center with over 20 years experience working in the field of trauma. She is trained in the three identified best practices in treating traumatized youth and is committed to the spread of these interventions. Margaret provides individual and family therapy utilizing the evidence-based interventions. She continues to increase awareness and understanding of trauma, evidence-based treatments and other relevant topics by providing trainings to the community, mental health providers and agencies.
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In this DVD Dr. Bellatin examines the importance of an individual’s positive regard and respect for others, a person’s openness, flexibility, and desire to learn as it relates to the development of cultural competency in human service providers.
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Anna Maria Bellatin, PhD
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Many children suffer from recurrent or chronic pain that is not due to a medical problem. This type of pain is referred to as functional pain. The most common types of functional pain reported by children are recurrent stomachaches and headaches. The cost of functional pain is considerable. Children with functional pain make frequent doctor visits and are often referred to tertiary care facilities. In addition, several hundred thousand school days are lost each month as a result of functional pain and school absences can negatively impact a child’s academic and social development. A number of psychological interventions have been found to be highly effective in decreasing the frequency, duration, and intensity of pain episodes. Nevertheless, it can be difficult for families to access effective treatment.
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Sarah Hanly, PhDreceived her first Doctorate in Molecular Biology from Rockefeller University in New York. She went on to do a post-doctoral fellowship at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the Duke University Medical School in Durham, North Carolina. She earned her Master’s and Doctorate degrees in Clinical Psychology from the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Her work as a Psychology Intern for the St. Louis Psychology Internship Consortium brought her to the Missouri Institute of Mental Health, where she helped create Camp Pain Retreat, a program that provides information to parents and offers suggestions to help children with functional pain.
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The diagnosis of diabetes is serious, and of particular concern when an individual also has a mental illness or a developmental disability. People need to take an active role in the management of diabetes just as they do with a mental illness. In this presentation, Ms. Farley explains how diabetes is recognized and managed, and shares her experiences caring for people who have diabetes along with a developmental disability or a mental illness.
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Becky Farley, RN ,graduated from nursing school in 1971. She served at Saint Louis University for five years in the Open Heart Unit, then in various emergency departments for about 25 years, including about ten years of management. She then served as an RN Consultant for New Horizons Community Support Services in Jefferson City, Missouri, and has been full time for about ten years at New Horizons, now serving as the Director for the Residential Services Program.
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Individuals with mental illness die an average of 25 years younger than the general population. Often these early deaths are attributable to medical factors such as diabetes, heart disease, and hypertension. These other medical factors can be prevented and/or managed with the implementation of good nutritional habits and proper exercise.
In this training, Ms. Kincade takes us through the experiences of the Independence Center in St. Louis which set up a Wellness Program for its members. She discusses the challenges faced in various settings–the mental health center, the home and the community–while trying to help people develop good habits, and several practical tips and solutions.
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Jenia Kincade ,is a Wellness Specialist at the Independence Center in St. Louis, Missouri. She has a strong academic background in health promotion combined with over 5 years work experience in different health related fields. She currently provides customized fitness programs to members of the Independence Center that include education and guidance on proper nutrition, cardiovascular exercise, stress reduction and resistance training. Her focus right now is not only collecting data to assess the needs and interests of these members but more importantly working with other staff to help ensure a supportive environment within the clubhouse that makes it easier for members to make healthy lifestyle choices at home and in their community.
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Due to the home and community-based location of their work, community support staff and other in-home care providers have unique challenges in maintaining appropriate clinical boundaries with their clients. In this session participants will explore numerous potential pitfalls that can ensnare well-meaning professionals. The Code of Ethics for Psychiatric Rehabilitation Practitioners will be used to demonstrate how an ethics code can be beneficial in guiding practice .
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In this presentation, Dr. Carter explains Evidence-Based Practices and how they apply to providing services and supports to children and families. She discusses how to select a practice, and how to apply it. Likewise, she explains when not to rely exclusively on Evidence-Based Practices. This is a frank, open conversation regarding the often challenging world of finding the right treatment strategies for the children you serve.
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The Missouri Institute of Mental Health is pleased to offer a pair of DVDs that look at work from two different perspectives.
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This engaging series of panel discussions, sponsored by the Conte Center, took place September 28, 2007 and was recorded as it happened. Families and professionals shared information on the often challenging decisions that must be made when a loved one is diagnosed with Schizophrenia. Psychiatric and psychosocial treatment approaches, legal issues and even some current research are all highlighted in these programs.Series Host:
Richard Stevenson , Director of Special Projects for the Alliance on Mental Illness-St. Louis. Mr. Stevenson has served this organization for well over a decade in a wide variety of roles. Currently, he assists the St. Louis Area Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) Program, which is featured in one of the discussions.
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This engaging series of panel discussions, sponsored by the Conte Center, took place September 28, 2007 and was recorded as it happened. Families and professionals shared information on the often challenging decisions that must be made when a loved one is diagnosed with Schizophrenia. Psychiatric and psychosocial treatment approaches, legal issues and even some current research are all highlighted in these programs.Series Host:
Richard Stevenson , Director of Special Projects for the Alliance on Mental Illness-St. Louis. Mr. Stevenson has served this organization for well over a decade in a wide variety of roles. Currently, he assists the St. Louis Area Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) Program, which is featured in one of the discussions.
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This engaging series of panel discussions, sponsored by the Conte Center, took place September 28, 2007 and was recorded as it happened. Families and professionals shared information on the often challenging decisions that must be made when a loved one is diagnosed with Schizophrenia. Psychiatric and psychosocial treatment approaches, legal issues and even some current research are all highlighted in these programs.Series Host:
Richard Stevenson , Director of Special Projects for the Alliance on Mental Illness-St. Louis. Mr. Stevenson has served this organization for well over a decade in a wide variety of roles. Currently, he assists the St. Louis Area Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) Program, which is featured in one of the discussions.
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This engaging series of panel discussions, sponsored by the Conte Center, took place September 28, 2007 and was recorded as it happened. Families and professionals shared information on the often challenging decisions that must be made when a loved one is diagnosed with Schizophrenia. Psychiatric and psychosocial treatment approaches, legal issues and even some current research are all highlighted in these programs.Series Host:
Richard Stevenson , Director of Special Projects for the Alliance on Mental Illness-St. Louis. Mr. Stevenson has served this organization for well over a decade in a wide variety of roles. Currently, he assists the St. Louis Area Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) Program, which is featured in one of the discussions.
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We now know that people can and do recover from mental illness, and we know more and more about what treatment approaches work. An evidence-based practice has four key components: it must be a standardized treatment with guidelines or manuals; it must have been studied using a controlled research design; the research studies must have employed a variety of research teams; and, the outcomes must matter to the recipient of the care. Selection of an evidence-based practice must take into account not only the treatment, but the characteristics of the person and the desired effect. While evidence-based practices are proven, many good practices are still viable and should not be abandoned. In this presentation, Dr. Selleck discusses how a practice becomes evidence-based, what some examples of evidence-based practices are in the mental health field, and the ongoing evolution of mental health care.
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Virginia Selleck, PhD is the Clinical Director for the Division of Comprehenisive Psychiatric Services for the Missouri Department of Mental Health. Prior to that, she spent fifteen years in Minnesota as the Supervisor of Adult Mental Health Services with the Mental Health Division’s Department of Human Services. That followed eighteen years in Chicago, at a psychiatric rehabilitation center called Threshholds, and time as a mental health counselor in rural Illinois.
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This set includes three of our DVDs in one package allowing you to gain a greater understanding of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder from the perspective of the Clinician, the Family, and the Client.
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Mr. Bahr, founder of the St. Louis OCD Support group discusses his process of identifying and utilizing a system of support for his son who was diagnosed at an early age with OCD. This process involved educating himself and his family, educating the public, and guiding families and clients to seek information, and treatment resources within their communities.Program Presenter:
Bernie Bahr is the father of a son diagnosed with OCD in 1979, Mr. Bahr, along with his wife began educating themselves on OCD from 1979-1990. In 1990 attended the National OCD meetings, Mr. Bahr and his wife started the St. Louis OCD support group in 1990. They are still very much involved in this effort.
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