This is an announcement that Quality Improvement of Solano County Health and Social Services (Provider #57883) is offering Redefining Psychosis in two parts – 9:00 am – 12:15 pm on Thursdays, May 14 and 21, 2020. For details regarding registration, please see attached Registration Form.
This is a 2-part training. It is recommended that participants attend both days, but it is not required.
This workshop is intended for all levels of trainees. Parts of it are introductory and parts are advanced. It is intended to inspire clinicians to bravely address the issues that are experienced in a psychotic break or what becomes redefined as a special message crisis.
Maximum attendance for this training is 50 participants.
Course Title: Redefining Psychosis
Date: Part 1 – Thursday, May 14, 2020
Part 2 – Thursday, May 21, 2020
Time: Each session is from 9:00 am – 12:15 pm
Location: Zoom – Information on accessing the trainings will be sent out closer to the training dates
Educational Objectives:
Historically, clinicians are trained to avoid engaging with people when they are in an emergency state for fear of escalating symptoms. This workshop is intended to provide a roadmap to the rabbit hole. In other words, it redefines what is happening during a person’s journey through madness in a structured way that justifies intervention and highlights solutions. This can help a clinician feel confident that listening and intervening has value and can be necessary to form an alliance that can help. Interventions and solution strategies that get suggested can be used at any stage of a person’s recovery to explore what is happening or what has been experienced. Often clinicians struggle to know what is and isn’t helpful. This presentation will give attendees not only a better sense of what is helpful, but also hosts of strategies to consider using.
This course is being presented by Timothy C Dreby, M.Ed., LMFT.
Tim states: “I have been running professional survivor-led psychosis focus groups for the past twelve years in a public Intensive Outpatient Program at Highland Hospital in Oakland CA. I have a Masters of Education from Temple University obtained in 1998 and a MFT License obtained in 2008. I also survived a mid-career “schizophrenia” diagnosis that involved a three-month hospitalization in Montana State Hospital and a two-year emergency state about which I wrote an award-winning memoir. In 2013, I authored an Alameda County Innovations Grant and started to make public presentations with a small band of people with lived experience I trained and hired to promote this methodology. Since the close of this program I have been presenting and developing this material in local venues and through collaborations with the Bay Area Hearing Voices Network. This has involved annual presentations at the California Association of Social Rehabilitation Conference and other local venues.”
Please submit the attached Registration Form via QI fax at (707) 427-2774 or email at QualityImprovement@SolanoCounty.com no later than May 12, 2020. County employees must receive supervisory approval.
If you register and are later unable to make the training, please cancel at least 24 hours ahead.
Each of the courses meets the qualifications for 3 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, and/or LPCCs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. Solano County Health and Social Services (Provider #57883) is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, and/or LPCCs. Solano County Health and Social Services maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.
Participants must attend the fully scheduled time to receive CEUs – partial credit will not be awarded. Participants will not earn CE credit if more than 5 minutes late to the training, take excessive breaks, or leave early.
Certificates of Completion will be sent to participants within 3 weeks of participation once attendance is verified.
Professional credit is at no cost to the participant. The course includes course materials and learning activities to all participants.
If any special accommodations are needed, please contact Quality Improvement at least 3 days prior to the date of the training. Quality Improvement can be contacted at (707) 784-8323 or at QualityImprovement@SolanoCounty.com.
If you would like to make a complaint following this training, please contact Quality Improvement at (707) 784-8323 or at QualityImprovement@SolanoCounty.com.
Thank you!
Quality Improvement
Behavioral Health Division
Solano County Health and Social Services
Phone: (707) 784-8323
Fax: (707) 427-2774
Nonproprietary
