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When Reality Breaks: Understanding and Treating Psychosis with Recovery-Oriented Therapies

October 13, 2022 | 1:00 to 4:00 pm Central | Live On-line

Description:

Psychosis has been called one of the most common problems that we do not talk about. Symptoms of psychosis can range from hearing voices to subtle paranoia and can be caused by a whole spectrum of things including medical causes, stress, severe mood disorders, PTSD with secondary psychotic features, and Schizophrenia. While many therapists do not seek out to treat psychosis, chances are that you have met or even currently are meeting with at least one client coping with this. In this workshop we will overview some simple strategies based in CBT for psychosis and Recovery-Oriented therapies for identifying and assisting with these challenges.

Objectives:

After completing this program, social workers, program administrators, and other participants will be able to:

1. Recognize signs of psychosis as an umbrella symptom as well as recognize potential causes of psychosis
2. Describe how to use engagement strategies most helpful to clients with psychosis including normalizing, and engagement strategies
3. Review strategies for assisting clients with common psychotic symptoms including voices, paranoia, loss of sense of self, and loss of motivation
4. Define paranoia and describe the needs/meaning behind these experiences and how to ask probing questions without invalidating a person’s experience
5. Discuss the Recovery-Oriented Cognitive Therapy (CT-R) strategy of engaging the adaptive mode
6. Describe anosognosia as a common experience and how to assist clients who do not recognize the illness as well as learn when and how to effectively refer a client experiencing psychosis when needed
7. Assist clients with psychosis in clarifying aspirations and a greater sense of meaning

Presenter:

Jennifer Gerlach, LCSW, is a therapist in private practice in the St. Louis area who specializes in encouraging youth seeking mental health recovery. She has received training in Recovery-Oriented Cognitive Therapy (CT-R) through the Beck Institute as well as has completed an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) immersion course through Praxis. In addition, she has worked in the past within a coordinated specialty program for individuals in a first episode of psychosis. She has provided workshops on a national level focused on mental health recovery. She shares a hopeful perspective on recovery from psychosis and related challenges. She also is a person in mental health recovery herself.

AGENDA:

1:00 – 2:00 pm = 60 minutes, 1 clock hour, 1.2 contact hours, .12 CEUs

• Explore Psychosis as an Overarching Symptom as well as psychotic disorders
• Discuss Historical Interventions for Psychosis
• Discuss the Mental Health Recovery Movement and How this has been Integrated into Recovery-Oriented Psychotherapies
• Discussion of hope/outcome research in recovery-oriented cognitive therapy as well as the significance of intervention within the first episode
• Explore strategies for engaging clients with psychosis
• Discussion of Delusions---what decides what is a delusion? Discussion of meaning in delusions

2:00 – 3:00 pm = 60 minutes, 1 clock hour, 1.2 contact hours, .12 CEUs

• Exploration of the Recovery-Oriented Cognitive Therapy STEER strategy of engaging a person troubled by significant distressing beliefs----Support, Test it Out, Empathy, Empowerment, Re-Focus
• Discussion of Paranoia and Common Cognitive Patterns in Paranoia
• Explore Probing Questions as an Intervention once rapport has been built Discussion of Hallucinations
• Discussion of Strategies for Coping with Voices
• Discussion of Beliefs Around Voices, and how these can be a treatment target
• Exploration of meaning in voices

3:00 – 4:00 pm = 60 minutes, 1 clock hour, 1.2 contact hours, .12 CEUs

• Exploration of negative symptoms as well as beliefs that can interfere with moving toward aspirations including defeatist beliefs, and conservation of energy
• Exploration of common cognitive symptoms in psychosis---as well as strategies for combating these within the Recovery-Oriented Cognitive Therapy framework
• Exploration of strategies to assist a person experiencing psychosis in exploring important aspirations to them
• Exploration of strategies to assist a person in breaking down aspirations into manageable steps
• Exploration of the ACT principle of Clarifying Values and how this can be helpful to a person living with psychosis Discussion of Increased Risk of Suicide in Individuals with Psychosis
• Brief Exploration of Risk Assessment in this Population
• Discussion of Strategies for Improving Protective Factors in Individuals with Psychosis

Missouri Institute of Mental Health

The University of Missouri-St. Louis, Missouri Institute of Mental Health will be responsible for this program and maintain a record of your continuing education credits earned.

The Missouri Institute of Mental Health will award 3 clock hours or 3.6 contact hours (.36 CEUs) for this activity.

National Board for Certified Counselors

MIMH is an NBCC - Approved Continuing Education Provider, No. 6339 (ACEP^TM) and may offer NBCC - approved clock hours for events (or programs) that meet NBCC requirements. Sessions (or programs) for which NBCC – approved clock hours will be awarded are identified in the program bulletin (or web site). The ACEP is solely responsible for all aspects for the program.

3 clock hours are offered for this program.

National Association of Social Workers

This program is pending approval by the National Association of Social Workers (Approval # 886662054-xxxx) for 3 continuing education contact hours.

This training includes continuing education units (CEUs) that are supported by an accredited university
and accepted by professional licensing boards.

To confirm and find more information, visit:

https://mimhtraining.com/national-accreditation-social-workers/

https://mimhtraining.com/national-accreditation-counselors/

https://mimhtraining.com/national-accreditation-psychologists/