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Beyond Medications and Television: What Positive Behavioral Supports Can Add To Inpatient Psychiatric Treatment

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1.75 CE Hour On Demand
Clinical
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Description

Despite decades of research demonstrating the efficacy of positive reinforcement interventions with people with serious mental illness, adoption of these interventions remains low. This is especially true within inpatient psychiatric settings, where the primary intervention tends to be psychotropic medication. In this webinar, Dr. Carr and Dr. Snyder will discuss how positive behavioral support interventions can be implemented to help improve outcomes, including examples of successful interventions. They will also discuss barriers to designing and implementing positive behavioral support interventions, and discuss ways to overcome these.

Target Audience
  • • Social Worker
  • • Psychologist
  • • Marriage & Family Therapist
  • • Counselor
  • • Substance Use Disorder Professionals
Educational Goal

The educational goal of this workshop is to increase knowledge of positive reinforcement interventions.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this course, participants will be able to:

  • Define and contrast the terms positive reinforcement, punishment, and negative reinforcement.

  • Identify three aspects of effective positive behavioral support interventions.

  • Describe two barriers to effective design and implementation of positive behavioral support interventions.

  • Name two strategies for overcoming barriers to positive reinforcement interventions.

References

  • Carr, E.R., Davenport, K.M., Murakami-Brundage, J. L., Robertson, S., Miller, R., & Snyder, J. (2023). From the medical model to the recovery model: Psychologists engaging in advocacy and social justice action agendas in public mental health. The American journal of orthopsychiatry, 93(2), 120–130.

  • Newton, V.M., Elbogen, E.B., Brown, C.L., Snyder, J., & Barrick, A.L. (2012). Clinical decision-making about inpatient violence risk at admission to a public-sector acute psychiatric hospital. The journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, 40(2), 206–214.

  • Snyder, J. A., Clark, L.M., & Jones, N.T. (2012). Provision and adaptation of group treatment in state psychiatric hospitals. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 43(4), 395–402.

  • Snyder, J.A., Davenport, K.M., Kearney, L. K., & Carr, E.R. (2022). Legally involved individuals in state hospitals and community mental health settings: Introduction to the special section. Psychological Services, 19(2), 201–205.

Introductory
Clinical
Social Worker

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0654.

TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1000101) to sponsor continuing education for LCSWs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 2 hours of continuing education credit for LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

TPN.health, #1766, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 03/31/2022 – 03/31/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 2 Clinical continuing education credits.

Psychologist

Trusted Provider Network is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Trusted Provider Network maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Marriage & Family Therapist

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0097.

TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1000101) to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 2 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

Counselor

TPN.health has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7267. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. TPN.health is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0220.

TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1000101) to sponsor continuing education for LPCCs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 2 hours of continuing education credit for LPCCs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

Substance Use Disorder Professionals

This course has been approved by TPN.health, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #198061, TPN.health is responsible for all aspects of the programming.This course has been approved by TPN.health, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #198061, TPN.health is responsible for all aspects of the programing. Counselor Skill Group: Legal, Ethical and Professional Development

CE Policy
This course is fiscally sponsored by APA Division 18: Psychologists in Public Service There may be potential biases or conflicts of interest inherent to this relationship, and it must be disclosed to participants. These conflicts of interest have no bearing on the course content and have been resolved.
  • Waiting Room Opens
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  • 5 Minute Break
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Note: Time designated for waiting room, breaks cannot be counted toward CE credit.
Erika R. Carr, PhD

Erika R. Carr, PhD, is an Associate Professor at Yale School of Medicine and is also the Director of the Inpatient Psychology Service and Director of the Behavioral Intervention Service at Connecticut Mental Health Center in New Haven, Connecticut. She earned her doctoral degree from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, and completed her internship at Emory School of Medicine/Grady Hospital. Dr. Carr’s primary research and clinical interests are positive behavioral support interventions, the sexual objectification of women, unique concerns of women with serious mental illness and gender-responsive care, recovery-oriented care, trauma, and psychology training. Dr. Carr has co-authored a recent book, Women with Serious Mental Illness: Gender Responsive and Recovery-Oriented Care and recently led the charge in August 2022 to publish the American Psychological Association’s Psychological Practice Guidelines on Women with Serious Mental Illness. Dr. Carr is also interested in leadership and how to engage as a social justice advocate. To effect change, which holds major impact on the individual level as well as every other level of society, Dr. Carr seeks to engage as a social justice change agent in the systems in which she works and broader society. Dr. Carr also enjoys traveling to see new places, growing her 4 littles (Daisy, Indigo, Memphis, and Tennessee James), learning to play guitar, and growing flowers

Jennifer Snyder, PhD

Dr. Snyder received her Ph.D. from the University of Kansas and has been working with people with severe mental illness, many of whom are forensically involved, since that time. Currently she is an Associate Chief of Psychology at Oregon State Hospital (OSH). Between 2013 and 2022 she was part of Behavioral Psychology Services at OSH, where she consulted with treatment teams around incorporating positive behavioral interventions into treatment.

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