$75
(Light Breakfast & Lunch provided)
**Note there will be a limited number of In-Person seats so be sure to register early.**
Hotel Block Rates are available at The Graduate Evanston on Wednesday, Sept. 14th, and Thursday, Sept. 15th
$25
Attend from anywhere via Zoom
RISK & REWARD; Themes of Safety in Treatment
Yellowbrick’s Annual Conference 2022, “Risk & Reward: Themes of Safety in Treatment,” will bring together thought leaders from the country’s leading psychiatric hospitals and treatment centers. The conference will explore themes related to safety, including how we can attain a more comprehensive treatment experience and therefore better outcomes for patients.
Dr. Ray Kotwicki; Chief Medical Officer
Skyland Trail
Summary: Leveraging a therapeutic milieu in residential treatment programs is believed to be an essential aspect of patients’ recoveries. This assumption was challenged during the covid pandemic when many residential, partial hospitalization programs and intensive outpatient programs pivoted to virtual care during which structured in vivo activities, extemporaneous peer support, and consistent in-person therapist skills coaching were impossible. A formal research project to assess which patients were most impacted through having to engage in virtual rather than in-person psychosocial rehabilitation services and psychotherapies was conducted at Skyland Trail, a private, non-profit residential, PHP, and IOP treatment program located in Atlanta, Georgia. Data from the study will be presented and extrapolated to help determine which patients might safely and effectively be treated virtually – and which patients really do require in-person treatment – in years ahead.
Objectives:
Dr. David Baron – Medical Director
Yellowbrick
Summary: Working in an intensive treatment setting with young adults who have serious dysregulation of mood, sense of self, and behavior can be a risky business. “Contained” or locked treatment facilities that rely significantly on externally imposed rules and structure—such as locked doors—can sometimes fail to accomplish more than driving the patient’s troubles underground through deception, false compliance, and “waiting out” the confinement. Skills-based therapies can have a significant impact on some patients and some behaviors but often fail to show their effects when the patient has had significant trauma leading to dissociated self-states, i.e., a disconnection either from any awareness of what drives their problematic behaviors or if they are aware cognitively, no emotional connection to this awareness.
The use of enactment theory (Schore, Ginot, others) as a basis for psychotherapeutic intervention and interpretation involves the therapist’s ongoing efforts toward awareness of shared, “right-brain-communicated” nonverbal affective experiences, that form a representation of the patient’s implicit early life trauma-associated affects. Offering an understanding of these experiences as an interpretation in the moment can powerfully impact the patient’s understanding thus creating an opportunity for safer attachment, which is crucial to any change in treatment (Winnicott).
This talk will attempt to describe and elucidate the above technique as applied at Yellowbrick, an intensive multi-modal and multidisciplinary treatment program for Emerging Adults, and how this approach can achieve a co-created sense of safety in an otherwise potentially terrifying context of risk.
Objectives:
Dr. Andrew Gerber – CEO
Silver Hill Hospital
Summary: In the last few decades, pressure from managed care has driven the closure of psychiatric inpatient beds, reduced payment for residential treatment, and fragmented care into brief inpatient stabilization followed by inadequate outpatient services. Both levels of care frequently are missing expertly-delivered evidence-based psychotherapy, which research shows are
the best treatment for patients with complex disorders. We believe that this is a major cause of a failing safety net for those with complex and comorbid psychiatric disorders (including addiction) and related to the rise in suicide rates and other negative societal and public health outcomes. One of the methods used by insurance companies, with the support of regulatory bodies, is to hijack anxiety about patient safety to create a false dichotomy between those who require a very restrictive and expensive inpatient level of care and patients who are well enough for outpatient services. The clinical reality, however, is that patient risk, particularly in complex patients with lifelong vulnerabilities, lies along a continuum best served by a range of levels of care. These levels must be clearly defined and matched to the patients’ needs. In this presentation, we will discuss the nature of this continuum from the clinical side as well as from the care provision side. Level of Care placement tools such as the LOCUS, CALOCUS, and ASAM criteria will be discussed, and their applicability to care explored.
Objectives:
Dr. Daryl Shorter Medical Director, Addiction Services
Menninger
Summary: Health disparities have been a hot topic among clinicians in academic centers and community settings. Despite the conversation surrounding these challenges, diagnosis and management of substance use disorders among diverse populations remains extremely challenging.
Objectives:
$75
(Light Breakfast & Lunch provided)
**Note there will be a limited number of In-Person seats so be sure to register early.**
Hotel Block Rates are available at The Graduate Evanston on Wednesday, Sept. 14th, and Thursday, Sept. 15th
$25
Attend from anywhere via Zoom
Call Tracy Ashworth 847-869-1500 ext. 207
Yellowbrick collaborates with adolescents and emerging adults, ages 16-30's, their families and participating professionals toward the development and implementation of a strategic “Life Plan.” An integrative, multi-specialty consultation clarifies strengths, limitations, and risks, and defines motivations, goals and choices.
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People living with Major Depressive Disorder, or MDD, experience episodes of depression and sadness that are debilitating to daily life.
Those living with anxiety disorders experience high levels of anxiety and stress that interfere negatively with daily life.
A mental health issue in which a person’s cognitive function is impaired, resulting in symptoms like experiencing challenges with conducting speech, reading and writing, and behavior.
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