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Psychosis Care and Connection: A Retreat on Humanistic Approaches - East Coast
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Psychosis Care and Connection: A Retreat on Humanistic Approaches - East Coast
0.0 CE Hours
Introductory
$200
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Gould Farm
100 Gould Rd
Monterey, Massachusetts 01245 -
Austen Riggs Center
25 Main St
Stockbridge, Massachusetts 01262
Description
A roundtable retreat with the aim of fostering dialogue, sharing approaches to working with psychosis, and nurturing community through lectures, experiential events, and cultural engagement in the Berkshires.
Learning Objectives
Participants will be able to:
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Increase understanding of history of family based services for schizophrenia
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Increase access to case management, resources for caregivers to decrease burn out and aim improved self care and management of emotional, physical and mental health needs for caregiving individuals
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State one reason why some psychiatrists believe that talking about delusions will make the patient worse.
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State one reason why some psychiatrists believe that empathically understanding psychotic symptoms may be personally distressing to the psychiatrist
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State one reaction some psychiatrists may have to the unreasonableness of many psychotic persons.
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Define and understand the concept of hospitality
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Apply the concept of hospitality and the role of host and guest to the psychotherapy for psychosis
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Recognize the the of narrative hospitality and how to facilitate the exchange of stories from multiple perspectives.
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Consider the limitations created by the ideas implied in a diagnosis
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Describe the importance of creativity in treatment
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Identify the potential role of an inquiry into ones spiritual experiences in attuning to their personal world
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Decrease stigma and barriers to engagement in family based services for schizophrenia
Educational Goal
The goal of this retreat is to enhance participants’ knowledge, skills, and attitudes related to humanistic, person-centered approaches to psychosis care, fostering collaboration among clinicians, advocates, and individuals with lived experience to support recovery, community integration, and holistic well-being.
Presenters
Jeffrey Katzman, MD
Jeff Katzman is Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at the University of New Mexico and Adjunct Professor at the Yale School of Medicine. He currently works as the Director of Education at Silver Hill Hospital and as the medical director for multiple ECHO programs in resilience for health care workers. Prior to this, he directed Behavioral Health Care services at the New Mexico VA Health Care System and programs for veterans with PTSD in Los Angeles. He is a longtime student and teacher of psychodynamic psychotherapy and attachment as well as a practitioner of Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy. Jeff has held multiple leadership roles in the American Academy of Dynamic Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis and is also an original board member of the Mentalizing Initiative in Los Angeles. He has received multiple recognitions as an outstanding teacher from trainees and has been published for his research and original ideas in multiple peer reviewed journals. He has also participated in improvisational theatre for decades and has held a passion for understanding its application for interdisciplinary hospital teams, psychiatric trainees, psychotherapists, and patients. He has presented these ideas at multiple international conferences and has published two books about the application of improvisation to our lives. His original research has demonstrated the critical role improvisation can play in becoming comfortable with the unknown. He has also been identified as an Amazon Breakthrough Novel Quarterfinalist for his original novel, The Storymaker.
Jeremy M. Ridenour, PsyD, ABPP
Jeremy M. Ridenour, PsyD, ABPP, is the director of psychological testing, associate director of admissions, and a staff psychologist and psychoanalyst at the Austen Riggs Center. He conducts research on personality assessment to better understand personality organization and personality disorders. He also writes papers on the psychotherapeutic treatment of individuals with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders with a particular focus in understanding how targeting metacognition or mentalization (i.e. how people think about self and others) can be an important focus for recovery. His project is to better understand the core emotions, central interpersonal dilemmas, and existential states that are essential to the lived of experience of psychosis. Past papers have examined the importance of processing grief and loss, reawakening hope through the process of despair, restoring trust while honoring mistrust, facing fear that arises for both patients and therapists when engaging psychotic symptoms, attending to shame, and reckoning with the loneliness of psychosis.
Michael Garrett, MD
Michael Garrett, MD is currently Professor Emeritus of Clinical Psychiatry at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York. He is also on the faculty of the Psychoanalytic Association of New York (PANY) affiliated with NYU Medical Center in New York City. He received his medical degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and completed his residency training in Psychiatry at Bronx Municipal Hospital Center. He currently teaches and supervises clinicians doing psychotherapy for psychosis and is a consultant to several first-episode for psychosis teams in the United States and elsewhere. He has a particular interest in the integration of cognitive behavioral and psychodynamic treatment in the psychotherapy of psychosis, as detailed in a Chapter in Kaplan & Sadock’s Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry 11th Ed titled Individual Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Psychosis, and in his recent book, Garrett, M. (2019) Psychotherapy for Psychosis: Integrating Cognitive Behavioral and Psychodynamic Treatments. Guilford Press/New York.
Hilary Kaul, DSW, LCSW
Director of National Admissions and NY Operations
Dr. Hilary Kaul is a licensed clinical social worker and therapist with extensive experience working with individuals and families. Hilary has worked in a variety of inpatient, outpatient, and community based settings, working with caregivers and young adults newly diagnosed as experiencing psychosis, mood disorders and comorbid substance use challenges. Most recently, Hilary created a pilot day treatment program at Mclean Hospital for young adults after assessing an unmet system-wide need to increase functionality and socialization of individuals while simultaneously decreasing stigma. She also served as a primary clinician leading a patient’s multidisciplinary team in a first episode psychosis clinic. In this role, she developed and executed the hospital’s first community and home-based services.
Prior to working at McLean Hospital, Hilary taught English and History in Shanghai to middle school and high school students. Hilary holds a Doctorate in Social Welfare and Clinical Social Work from New York University. She received a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of Richmond and a Master of Social Work from Boston College, where she won the M. Rita Walsh award for excellence in mental health. Hilary has completed extensive family therapy training at Ackerman Institute For The Family. Hilary believes in working collaboratively to empower clients to make choices to help them build happy and fulfilling lives.
Dr. Hilary Kaul is a licensed clinical social worker and therapist with extensive experience working with individuals and families. Hilary has worked in a variety of inpatient, outpatient, and community based settings, working with caregivers and young adults newly diagnosed as experiencing psychosis, mood disorders and comorbid substance use challenges. Most recently, Hilary created a pilot day treatment program at Mclean Hospital for young adults after assessing an unmet system-wide need to increase functionality and socialization of individuals while simultaneously decreasing stigma. She also served as a primary clinician leading a patient’s multidisciplinary team in a first episode psychosis clinic. In this role, she developed and executed the hospital’s first community and home-based services.
Prior to working at McLean Hospital, Hilary taught English and History in Shanghai to middle school and high school students. Hilary holds a Doctorate in Social Welfare and Clinical Social Work from New York University. She received a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of Richmond and a Master of Social Work from Boston College, where she won the M. Rita Walsh award for excellence in mental health. Hilary has completed extensive family therapy training at Ackerman Institute For The Family. Hilary believes in working collaboratively to empower clients to make choices to help them build happy and fulfilling lives.
Courtney M. Harding, PhD
Dr. Harding has spent nearly 40 years as a professor of psychiatry. She has presented evidence for recovery and programmatic changes at least 554 times at international and national meetings and academic Grand Rounds, as well as to providers, families, patients, college presidents, and government entities. She has received 47 awards and honors for her work.
Financially Sponsored By
- Ellenhorn
- Austen Riggs Center
- Help in the Home
- Skyland Trail
- Silver Hill Hospital
- Bridge House Health
- Gould Farm
- WestBridge
- Windhorse Integrative Mental Health
- Lakewood Center