Recordings

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Explore the biopsychosocial approach to treatment and discuss the risks and benefits of antipsychotics.

Learning objectives:

1. Describe the biopsychosocial approach to comprehensive treatment of schizophrenia
2. Discuss common adverse effects of antipsychotics used to treat schizophrenia

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Learn common conditions and disorders that may mimic schizophrenia-like symptoms and how to differentiate them from schizophrenia.

Learning objectives:

1. Identify at least three conditions that mimic schizophrenia symptoms
2. Discuss workup that may help differentiate schizophrenia from other conditions presenting with schizophrenia-like symptoms.

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Explore the diagnostic criteria of schizophrenia and steps to make a clinical diagnosis.

Learning objectives:

1. Describe core DSM 5 TR criteria for schizophrenia
2. Discuss four key steps to make a diagnosis of schizophrenia

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Are you ready to overcome challenges in implementing CLAS standards for behavioral health in nursing facilities? Join us for a brief 30-minute training about practical strategies and resources needed to address these pressing issues. Discover how you can effectively integrate CLAS standards into your nursing facility practices to improve behavioral health outcomes and ensure equitable care for all.

Learning Objectives:

1. Participants will be able to recognize the 15 action steps for providing CLAS standards.
2. Participants will gain an awareness of practical ways to implement CLAS standards to enhance behavioral health equity.
3. Participants will be able to identify resources to help improve CLAS implementation.

Speaker: Naisha A. Fray, MA, MSPH

In this brief 30-minute training session, nursing facility staff will explore the principles of trauma-informed care and learn techniques for creating a safe environment where both residents and staff can thrive.

Learning Objectives

1. Participants will be able to define trauma informed care.
2. Participants will be able to recognize trauma triggers.
3. Participants will learn easy to implement techniques for resident engagement and interactions.

Speaker: Talisha Carter-Moody, LPC, CPCS, MS

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This webinar will examine the development of implicit (unconscious) bias and explore the environmental factors that may contribute to stereotyping and stigma. Participants will learn techniques to reduce bias and person-first language approaches to enhance staff and resident interactions.

Learning Objectives:

1. Examine the cognitive process associated with the development of stereotypes, implicit (unconscious) bias, and stigma.
2. Identify external and internal risk factors supporting implicit bias.
3. Learn how bias can negatively impact communication and rapport building with residents.
4. Learn strategies to eliminate implicit bias to enhance resident interactions.

Speaker: Diana Padilla MCPC, CARC, CASAC-TASAP

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Discover a practical approach to conducting a nursing facility behavioral health needs assessment. Learn to systematically identify the behavioral health demographics and needs of a facility’s resident population and a method for evaluating a facility’s current behavioral health services. Explore the range of behavioral health services and support that can be offered in and out of a facility to increase capacity to meet the behavioral health needs of residents.

Learning Objectives:

1. Recognize key components of a nursing facility behavioral health needs assessment.
2. Identify key components of behavioral health services available to nursing facilities, within the facility and the community.

Speaker: Jacob Berelowitz, LNHA, LMSW, CPHQ, CCM

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The Columbia Protocol, also known as the Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS), supports suicide risk assessment through a series of simple, plain-language questions that anyone can ask. The answers help users identify whether someone is at risk for suicide, assess the severity and immediacy of that risk, and gauge the level of support that the person needs.

Users of the tool ask people:

• Whether and when they have thought about suicide (ideation)
• What actions they have taken — and when — to prepare for suicide
• Whether and when they attempted suicide or began a suicide attempt that was either interrupted by another person or stopped of their own volition.

Speaker: Adam Lesser, LCSW

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Participants will gain an understanding of the Stages of Change model in the context of substance use disorders (SUD). Learn effective communication and motivational strategies to support the resident’s journey to recovery.

Learning Objectives:

1. Define and explain the Stages of Change Model.
2. Identify and assess the stages of change in residents with SUD.
3. Discuss how to apply appropriate interventions tailored to each stage of change.
4. Understand the challenges and dynamics associated with each stage.
5. Explain relapse prevention strategies for residents in the maintenance stage.
6. Describe how to foster effective communication and motivation throughout the change process.

Speaker: Rosalyn D. Davis, MSCJ, MATS, CADC-II, ICADC