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Heroin- An Epidemic will focus on numerous trends related to opiates in the St. Louis region. The presentation will address use, roots in prescription drug abuse, touch on treatment options, and have focus on prevention efforts both in regards to best practices and public policy initiatives.
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Currently, there is little training to help practitioners prepare to provide supported education services. This presentation will focus on how staff can prepare to provide these services. The presenter will also describe how different programs in the U.S. provide supports to high school students, help people learn about different careers and develop career plans, and how they help people engage in certification and college programs.
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This presentation will focus on the time period prior to a first episode of psychosis in which individuals are experiencing attenuated or brief limited intermittent psychotic symptoms known as a prodromal phase, including related changes in the DSM 5. Recognizing and identifying the prodrome of first episode psychosis creates an opportunity for earlier intervention, which in turn can potentially delay or even prevent the onset of psychotic disorder.
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Catherine Adams, LMSW, ACSW, CAADC
RAISE-NAVIGATE is a Coordinated Specialty Care model for early intervention for psychosis. This model provides a team approach to wellness and recovery and recognizes the important and necessary role that families play in their loved one’s recovery. This session will review the Family Education component of NAVIGATE and will focus on areas such as engagement and retention of families, need for education and information, building on family’s resilient qualities, utilizing a shared decision-making approach and tailoring the intervention for each individual family.
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Catherine Adams, LMSW, ACSW, CAADC
A first episode of psychosis can have a devastating impact on families leading to a variety of emotional and behavioral responses including, but not limited to, confusion, fear, loss, hypervigilance, disbelief, change in expectations, anger and hopelessness. Most families want to be involved in supporting their relative. What do families want and need to be partners in their loved one’s recovery? How has this experience affected the family? This session will identify the impacts for families of loving someone experiencing psychosis for the first time. We will identify strategies to help families build on their strengths and cultivate the necessary knowledge, attitudes and skills to cope effectively and support their loved one’s progress.
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Although many young people are uninterested in mental health treatment, they do want to pursue education and employment. That makes makes IPS a natural tool for engagement. And by intervening early, practitioners can prevent youth from abandoning their career goals and heading down the path to a life of disability. Supported education, including both short-term certificate training programs and college degrees, prepares youth to earn a living wage and escape a life of poverty. More than that, education and employment offer youth hope as they struggle with the implications of managing a serious, long-term illness. (IPS stands for Individual Placement and Support, the evidence-based approach to helping people with serious mental illnesses with employment.)
Swanson Keynote Missouri- Spring Training Institute – Slides in PDF format
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This workshop will include breathing and mindful movement exercises to reduce stress. The workshop will include Coherent Breathing exercise to increase heart rate variability and overall wellbeing. Highlights of research studies about the benefits of qigong, mindfulness, and pranayama (breathing exercises) will be reviewed. Participants will be able to practice the exercises to help reduce stress and ‘burn out.’ Participants will also be able to teach these beneficial practices to clients. Information about resources for ongoing practice will be provided. The presenter will also describe experiences teaching these exercises to mental health patients at Fulton State Hospital.
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Richard Young, MSW, MDiv, LCSW, CSAT, CMAT
The goal of this program is to present up to date information on how digital technology is impacting sexual behavior, dating, and intimacy among people of all ages. We will discuss how technology is generating a “new breed” of sexually addicted individuals whose brains get literally hijacked by an unlimited online world. The goal of the presentation is to give clinicians information on how to assess and learn tools and resources to assist clients in their treatment and recovery from compulsive sexual and relational behaviors. Special emphasis will be given to treatment for spouses/partners who have been betrayed by their partner’s behaviors and address the trauma that these individuals often experience as a result.
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This presentation will provide an overview of the integration of medication assisted treatment (MAT) into the full continuum of substance use disorder treatment for offenders incarcerated in and/or supervised by the Missouri Department of Corrections. The presentation will underscore the collaboration established and in place between numerous state agencies and private treatment providers that has been essential to enhance treatment processes over the continuum from in-custody to community based treatment. Included in the presentation will be an overview of the various MAT projects and steps necessary in implementation and challenges, lessons learned, steps toward expansion and preliminary evaluation outcomes. The presentation will include representatives from the various disciplines who contribute to the success of this project toward reducing recidivism of offenders with substance use disorders including the Departments of Corrections and Mental Health, Probation and Parole, in-custody and community based medical services, in-custody and community based SUDS treatment providers and academia involved in research and evaluation of the project.
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This workshop aims to improve awareness of and receptivity to using Technology-Assisted Care (TAC) for the treatment of Substance Use Disorders (SUDS). This workshop will help identify effective TAC interventions and introduce participants to two validated TAC interventions that are available. The presentation will identify strategies and approaches for adoption and integration of TAC into routine clinical practice, and explore implementation and integration challenges that exist (cost, reimbursement, security, etc…).
