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Maria Sardiñas Behavioral Health Institute Workshop Series

Maria Sardiñas Behavioral Health Institute Workshop Series

Maria Sardiñas, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Social Work at San Diego State University has dedicated her life and worked tirelessly on the issues confronted by seriously mentally ill adults, as well as engaged in efforts to affect social policies on their behalf. Ms. Sardiñas is recognized locally, nationally, and internationally for her many contributions and continues to be a major force in the ongoing evolution of the public mental health system.

Since 2004, Maria maintains involvement with the planning and delivery of an annual Maria Sardiñas Behavioral Health Institute Lecture Series. The target audiences for these events are: social workers, mental health providers, students, mental health consumers and their families. The Institute’s series aims to be a centerpiece of community education on the subject of psychosocial rehabilitation and behavioral health.

Upcoming Workshops:

REGISTRATION IS CLOSED-WORKSHOP IS FULL

Evidence-Based Practices in Mental Health Services

Assertive Community Treatment
Social Skills Training

Keynote: Kim Mueser, Ph.D. (Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry and Dept. of Community and Family Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School-Hanover, NH)

Additional Presenters: Tom Patterson, Ph.D., (Professor in Residence, Dept. of Psychiatry, UCSD; Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Psychology, SDSU; Research Psychologist, VA San Diego Healthcare System) and Eric Granholm, Ph.D. (Professor of Psychiatry, UCSD; Director, VA Fellowship Program in Psychosocial Rehabilitation for Severe Mental Illness)

Date: Tuesday May 6th, 2008
Time: 8:30am-4:00pm
Location: The Scottish Rite Center
Attendance Fees (includes continental breakfast and lunch): $40 for Professionals/General Public (additional $35 processing fee for CEUs if requested), $15 for Students

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Previous Workshops:

Psychiatric Rehabilitation: Philosophy, Practice and Evidence Base (Fall 2006)
Please note: For the 2006 event, online videos of presentations are available for viewing.

Keynote: Dr. William Anthony, Ph.D. (Executive Director and Professor of Rehabilitation Counseling at Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Boston University)
Additional Presenters: Michele Curran (Director of the California Network of Mental Health Clients Office of Self Help); Sharon Kuehn, MHRE (Coordinator of the Office of Consumer Empowerment, Contra Costa Mental Health Department); Diane Gould, LCSW (Senior Vice President of Advocates Inc.) and Pam Bucknam-Hale, LCSW, MBA (Director of Strategic Planning and Development of Advocates Inc.)

All-day event that focused on psychiatric rehabilitation and related service modalities. The symposium covered rehabilitation values and principles, anecdotal and empirical evidence for recovery, recovery definition and assumptions, and major phases of the psychiatric rehabilitation process, building a wellness and recovery community, client culture, bridging the gap between the principles of recovery and empowerment and the real-world application of these principles by direct services behavioral health staff and their supervisors.

Supported Employment: Best Practices for Individuals with Mental Illness (Fall 2005)

Keynote: Dr. Judith Cook (expert consultant on employment and income supports for the President’s New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, and author of the Commission Subcommittee’s Report on Employment and Income Supports for People with Mental Illness.)

Provided evidence-based practices effective in helping people with psychiatric disabilities become employed and develop careers. Through lecture and break-out group discussion, participants learned how to integrate supported employment evidence-based practices into different kinds of service-delivery organizations. The Employment Intervention Demonstration Program (EIDP), a federally-funded, multi-site study of different service-delivery models to help people with mental illness achieve competitive employment, was also highlighted.

Overcoming Barriers to the Treatment of Latinos with Mental Illness (Fall 2004)

Keynote: Dr. Alex Kopelowicz (medical director of the San Fernando Mental Health Center and Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, Los Angeles engaged in landmark research focused on Latinos with schizophrenia)

Addressed barriers to mental health service utilization in the Latino population. Despite the fact that Latinos have a similar prevalence rate for mental disorders as the general population, several studies have documented that they have a lower utilization rate of mental health services. Research on the underutilization of mental health services by Latinos has focused on the barriers to accessing ongoing psychiatric treatment -- with most of the attention given to financial barriers. However, growing literature points to the need to consider nonfinancial barriers to mental health care such as cultural factors and provider sensitivity. These issues were reviewed and an intervention designed to improve access to treatment was discussed.