Honoring the Dignity of Risk: Earn 1 CE Hour With TPN.health's Latest Podcast Episode
Honoring the Dignity of Risk: Earn 1 CE Hour With TPN.health's Latest Podcast Episode
Safety and control have dominated mental health treatment for decades. Dr. Ross Ellenhorn argues that this orientation, however well-intentioned, actively undermines recovery. Episode 2 of the TPN.health CE Podcast makes the clinical case for why dignity, and specifically the freedom to take meaningful risks, isn't a nice-to-have. It's what change actually requires.
"Honoring the Dignity of Risk: How Autonomy Drives Growth and Healing in Clinical Care" is available now on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. One CE hour, CME and CNE included. Listen on your own time, complete the post-test at TPN.health, and download your certificate.
What you'll learn
Dr. Ellenhorn draws on two decades of work in psychiatric hospital diversion and community-based care to examine dignity as a clinical principle, not just an ethical one. His argument: people don't change in environments built around surveillance and control. They change when they're trusted to navigate uncertainty, supported by collaboration and community rather than managed through restriction.
By the end of the episode, you'll be able to:
Explain dignity as both an ethical principle and a clinical necessity in mental health care, including its relationship to self-determination
Describe the "dignity of risk" and why the ability to take meaningful risks is essential to growth outside controlled or sequestered environments
Identify strategies for building treatment environments that prioritize collaboration, autonomy, and trust over surveillance and control
About Dr. Ellenhorn
Ross Ellenhorn, MSW, PhD is a sociologist, psychotherapist, and social worker who has spent the last twenty years helping people experiencing psychiatric symptoms find paths to remaining outside institutional settings. He created the first fully-operating intensive hospital diversion and wrap-around program in Massachusetts and led one of the Commonwealth's first Programs for Assertive Community Treatment. His book on psychiatric hospital recidivism and hospital diversion techniques was published by Springer Publishing in 2007. Trained in Open Dialogue, a method with documented success in minimizing reliance on psychotropic medications, Dr. Ellenhorn holds a joint PhD from the Florence Heller School for Social Welfare Policy and Management and the Department of Sociology at Brandeis University.
How to earn your CE credit
Stream the episode on Spotify or Apple Podcasts, then complete the post-test at TPN.health to download your certificate.
Credit is available for addiction professionals, counselors, marriage and family therapists, nurses, physicians, psychologists, and social workers.
Brought to you by TPN.health. Financially sponsored by Ellenhorn.
Safety and control have dominated mental health treatment for decades. Dr. Ross Ellenhorn argues that this orientation, however well-intentioned, actively undermines recovery. Episode 2 of the TPN.health CE Podcast makes the clinical case for why dignity, and specifically the freedom to take meaningful risks, isn't a nice-to-have. It's what change actually requires.
"Honoring the Dignity of Risk: How Autonomy Drives Growth and Healing in Clinical Care" is available now on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. One CE hour, CME and CNE included. Listen on your own time, complete the post-test at TPN.health, and download your certificate.
What you'll learn
Dr. Ellenhorn draws on two decades of work in psychiatric hospital diversion and community-based care to examine dignity as a clinical principle, not just an ethical one. His argument: people don't change in environments built around surveillance and control. They change when they're trusted to navigate uncertainty, supported by collaboration and community rather than managed through restriction.
By the end of the episode, you'll be able to:
Explain dignity as both an ethical principle and a clinical necessity in mental health care, including its relationship to self-determination
Describe the "dignity of risk" and why the ability to take meaningful risks is essential to growth outside controlled or sequestered environments
Identify strategies for building treatment environments that prioritize collaboration, autonomy, and trust over surveillance and control
About Dr. Ellenhorn
Ross Ellenhorn, MSW, PhD is a sociologist, psychotherapist, and social worker who has spent the last twenty years helping people experiencing psychiatric symptoms find paths to remaining outside institutional settings. He created the first fully-operating intensive hospital diversion and wrap-around program in Massachusetts and led one of the Commonwealth's first Programs for Assertive Community Treatment. His book on psychiatric hospital recidivism and hospital diversion techniques was published by Springer Publishing in 2007. Trained in Open Dialogue, a method with documented success in minimizing reliance on psychotropic medications, Dr. Ellenhorn holds a joint PhD from the Florence Heller School for Social Welfare Policy and Management and the Department of Sociology at Brandeis University.
How to earn your CE credit
Stream the episode on Spotify or Apple Podcasts, then complete the post-test at TPN.health to download your certificate.
Credit is available for addiction professionals, counselors, marriage and family therapists, nurses, physicians, psychologists, and social workers.
Brought to you by TPN.health. Financially sponsored by Ellenhorn.
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