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Keynote Address: The Coffee Bean

Speaker(s):

Damon West

Presentation Description: West’s presentation will center upon the theme that the ability to change our environments is within each of us; and, that for true progress to be made in this country, attitudes towards mental health and recovery must change.

Objectives:

  1. Describe The Coffee Bean (back story and applications)
  2. Share lessons learned in recovery
  3. Discuss ways to improve mental health and substance use in corrections (which is where many mental health and substance use patients reside, unfortunately)

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Bell, MD, Carl C.

Dr. Carl C. Bell, M.D. is Staff Psychiatrist at Jackson Park Hospital’s Outpatient Family Practice Clinic and Inpatient Consultation Liaison Service. He is a Retired Clinical Professor of Psychiatry & Public Health at the University of Illinois at Chicago. During 45 years, he has published more than 500 articles, chapters, & books on mental health and authored The Sanity of Survival. He is co-editor of Pequegnat W and Bell CC (eds). Family and HIV/AIDS: Cultural and Contextual Issues in Prevention and Treatment and Jeste D and Bell CC (eds). Psychiatric Clinics of North America – Prevention in Psychiatry.

Presentations:

Risk Factors are Not Predictive Factors due to Protective Factors

Prevalence of Neurodevelopmental Disorders associated with Prenatal Exposure to Alcohol (ND-PAE)

 

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Risk Factors are Not Predictive Factors due to Protective Factors

Keynote Speaker

Carl C. Bell, MD

Contrary to expectations of many psychiatric practitioners, exposure to a risk factor, e.g., a traumatic stressor, does not automatically put a person on a path to develop a psychiatric disorder, e.g. PTSD. Similarly, having a mental disorder does not automatically put a person on a path to do poorly in life, e.g. languish or get depressed. Scientific documentation will be provided that protective factors have the capacity to prevent risk factors from becoming predictive of “bad” mental health outcomes. Further, protective factors can decrease the risk individuals who are exposed to adverse childhood experiences from having serious psychopathology in later life. A theoretically sound, evidence-based, common sense model is offered as a “directionally correct” way to ensure that at-risk populations obtain protective factors to prevent potential risk factors from generating poor health and mental health outcomes.

Bell 6-3-16 Risk Factors are not Predictive Factors due to Protective Factors – Slides in PDF format