Speaker(s)

Paul Thomlinson, PhD

The presentation will be a lively research-based talk, supported by judicious use of PowerPoint slides, and a bit of live music to make things more engaging and enjoyable.

Objectives:

• Enumerate facts and data refuting the spurious correlation between mental illness and violence
• Describe promising harm reduction approaches to gun violence and mass shootings
• Discuss an alternative explanation for mass shootings and gun violence built on the phenonmena of social isolation and withdrawal.

 

 

 

 

Thomlinson DMH Spring Training Institutes 2016 The Truth about Mental Illness and Violence – Slides in PDF format

Speaker(s)

Angeline Stanislaus, MD

Dr. Stanislaus will discuss the prevalence of violence in the Seriously Mentally Ill (SMI) population, and summarize the studies that have examined this issue in various treatment settings and community samples. She will discuss the significance of acute psychotic symptoms such as auditory hallucinations and delusional beliefs in assessing risk of impending violence. She will also discuss early intervention in prevention of violence.

 

Objectives:

• Review the prevalence of violent behaviors in the seriously mentally ill patient population.
• Understand the significance of assessing acute psychotic symptoms and their relevance to risk of violence.
• Learn early intervention strategies to minimize risk of violence

Slides in PDF format

Speaker(s)

Dorn Schuffman, MA

Missouri is interested in applying to participate in a federal demonstration project that establishes new federal standards for community behavioral health providers, to be known as “Certified Community Behavioral Health Centers” (CCBHCs) and a Prospective Payment System (PPS) to purchase services from CCBHCs. This presentation describes the goals of the demonstration project, and the new federal standards for CCBHCs in order to provide a context for soliciting input from consumers, family members and other stakeholders in Missouri’s implementation of the CCBHC standards and the demonstration program.

 

Objectives:

• Participants will develop an understanding of the goals and general structure of the federal CCBHC PPS Demonstration Project.
• Participants will develop an understanding of the new federal standards for Certified Community Behavioral Health Centers.
• Participants will have an opportunity to comment on, and influence, the approach to implementing the CCBHC PPS Demonstration Project in Missouri.

 

Schuffman STI -What Consumers Families Need to Know About CCBHCs – Slides in PDF format

Speaker(s)

Blake Schneider, MSW, LCSW

Kaelee Newton, MS

Dakota Dancy, BA

Assaults, self-injury, and hostile relationships are prevalent within inpatient psychiatric hospitals. Unfortunately, these phenomena are known to be unnecessarily maintained by common and well-intentioned treatment practices. The New Outlook Program at SLPRC sought to remove and replace these practices and adopt ones that promoted client self-management in an effort to improve treatment and safety outcomes. The New Outlook Program sought to reduce episodes of assault, self-injury, and use of restraints and to minimize the role of punishing intervention strategies.

Objectives:

• Identify strategies to decrease episodes of assaults and restraints
• Review and identify strategies to increase self-management
• Review and identify rationale for and strategies to reduce the role of arbitrary and punitive external controls

 

 Schneider Spring Institute Presentation-Final Slides in PDF format