Join us to hear Patricia E. Deegan PhD, internationally renowned thought leader and disruptive innovator in the field of behavioral health and recovery practices keynote at our conference. The focus for the day is on balancing the “Duty to Care” with the “Dignity of Risk” – supporting people to make decisions about their lives and expand their horizons.
Balancing the “Duty to Care” with the “Dignity of Risk” Principles of Recovery
Patricia E. Deegan, PhD
Principal, Pat Deegan, PhD & Associates, LLC
Informed by the experience of her own recovery, Dr. Deegan speaks eloquently about the “conspiracy of hope”, and the essential humanity of all people. Dr. Deegan will also present “Shared Decision Making” a set of tools that help people work collaboratively with their providers to make educated health care decisions based upon personal priorities and preferences.
Bringing the Gifts and Challenges of Open Dialogue to the U.S. – One Community Agency’s Experience
Chris Gordon, MD
Senior Vice President, Clinical Services Medical Director, Advocates, Inc.
Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry Harvard Medical School
Brenda Miele Soares
Director of Psychiatric Rehabilitation, Advocates Inc, Framingham, Massachusetts.
Dr. Gordon and Ms. Miele Soares will share their experience of bringing the Open Dialogue approach to working with people with mental health conditions to the United States. One of the dilemmas which the team has wrestled with has been how to offer people in psychiatric crisis the very best of what the medical system has to offer, while avoiding insofar as it’s possible to do so, the toxicities, disempowerment and other inadvertent impediments to recovery that psychiatric treatment can bring.
Critical Time Intervention – A Tool For Recovery
Alan Felix, MD
Psychiatrist, OnTrackNY@MHA Westchester
Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University’s College of Physicians & Surgeons Faculty
Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research
Medical Director, Riverdale Mental Health Association
Dr. Felix will discuss the value of the Critical Time Intervention (CTI) model as a component of recovery-oriented services. CTI assists individuals who are transitioning back to the community from institutional settings succeed and move toward independent functioning by teaching concrete skills and providing tailored time-limited supports. CTI is also a cornerstone of the OnTrackNY program which provides services to young adults in the first year of psychosis.
Break Out Sessions
1. Creating an Integrated Care Model
Rob Laitman, MD
Ann Mandel Laitman, MD
2. Shared Decision Making
Patricia E. Deegan, Ph.D.
3. What is a Peer? What are Peer Services?
Panelists include:
Alan Boardman, LMSW, New York State Director, Beacon Health Strategies, LLC
Amy Colesante, Executive Director, Mental Health Empowerment Project
Sabrina Johnson, Outreach and Engagement Specialist
Joseph Swinford, Deputy Director, Office of Consumer Affairs, NY State Office of Mental Health
4. What is Risk in Person-Centered, Recovery Oriented Practice? How do we tolerate/manage it? How do you remain fully engaged with someone while also attending to questions of risk?
MHA is a leader in New York State in Westchester in promoting and providing person-centered, recovery-oriented services to people facing mental health issues. Our belief is that each individual can achieve their personal goals and lead independent and healthy lives.
