TITLE OF PRESENTATION:
Changing the Treatment Paradigm Locally for Those who Experience Psychosis
SYNOPSIS:
This workshop outlines how diverse persons with lived experience provided outreach, made presentations and ran groups in ways that honored their lived experience with “psychosis.” Imagine how a system populated with such specialists might improve treatment for those who might otherwise be wary of accepting services.
AUTHOR:
Tim Dreby, MFT Rehabilitation Counselor, Author, “Fighting for Freedom in America: Memoir of a “Schizophrenia” and Mainstream Cultural Delusions,”
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
1.Participants will be able to articulate two reasons why psychosis can be treated as a as a cultural issue.
2. Participants will be able to identify three reasons why paying more mindful attention to elements of universal process of “psychosis” can help lead to social rehabilitation.
3. Participants will identify three things that can be done locally to increase engagement of individuals who experience “psychosis”.
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