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This module will talk about early mental health care centers in the state of Missouri including State Hospital Number One in Fulton, the St. Louis County Insane Asylum, and the Saint Louis Hospital for Social Evils. The history of these hospitals, the treatments offered patients, and the management of people with mental illness as affected by social and medical movements form the core of this presentation.
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Further explore both the importance of the Spirit of Motivational Interviewing and guidelines for specific applications of MI. Topics include a brief review of empathic counseling skills (OARS) and in introduction to directive aspects of MI, dealing with resistance, and recognizing and eliciting change talk.
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Motivational Interviewing is a tool for use in helping people resolve their ambivalence, or internal conflict, about changing their behavior. This training covers what MI is, why you hear people talking about the Spirit of MI and why that that is so important. You will learn how MI works and why, and be given resources for further learning or finding information, and for comparing MI with other approaches.
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Use of psychotropic medications has increased dramatically in this generation. Illnesses once thought hopeless and untreatable have been brought under control, and the people with these illnesses have been allowed to live healthy, productive lives. Bearing witness to the positive and negative aspects of psychotropic medications, and often faced with the brunt of day-to-day questions about these drugs are the case managers, social workers, psychologists, counselors, nurses, aides and other front line mental health care staff.
Program Presenter:
Roger W. Sommi, PharmD, FCCP, BCPP, received his Bachelors in Pharmacy from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, his Doctor of Pharmacy from the University of Utah in 1985, and completed a Clinical Services Fellowship in Psychiatric Pharmacy Practice at the University of Texas at Austin and Austin State Hospital. He is currently Professor of Pharmacy Practice and Psyhiatry at the Schools of Pharmacy and Medicine, University of Missouri-Kansas City, and Research Director of the Psychopharmacy Research and Education Program at Western Missouri Mental Health Center.
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