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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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OCD is characterized by the experience of obsessions and compulsions that greatly affect the quality of an individual’s life. Obsessions are thoughts, feelings, and urges that result in great discomfort. Compulsions are the strategies that people use to decrease or neutralize discomfort experienced by the obsessions. In order to meet the criteria for a diagnosis of OCD, a person must spend 1 hour a day in either mental or behavioral ritual or the obsession must cause great distress and/or it must cause significant problems in their life. Furthermore, OCD has an impact of the individual’s family and other systems of support.In this video, Mr. Mitchell describes Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and identifies the criteria for its diagnosis. In addition, Mr. Mitchell describes how OCD is manifested in behavior and identifies treatment options for the disorder. Further discussion centers on how family and other support systems are affected by the person with OCD.
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Gary Mitchell, MSW, LCSW is a clinical social worker who has expertise in the treatment of children and adults with anxiety disorders and related problems. He is the Assistant Director of the Anxiety Disorders Center of St. Louis Behavioral Medicine Institute, which specializes in the treatment of refractory and complicated cases. Mr. Mitchell has also worked in residential treatment providing Cognitive, Behavioral and Family Therapy for emotionally disturbed children. He is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the St. Louis University School of Social Services, where he teaches Cognitive-Behavioral Family Therapy.
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