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Compassionate Approaches to Crisis Webinar Series- 7/25/2022

7/25/2022

 
Do You Hear What I Hear?

This is a presentation on the Hearing Voices Movement. Topics covered will be the history, philosophy, and worldview of the Hearing Voices Network (HVN) and taking charge of your wellness and intentionality.  
Learning Objectives:
1. Participants will learn about the history of the Hearing Voices Network
2. Participants will learn the values of the Hearing Voices Network
3. Participants will learn coping strategies for how to deal with distressing voices, including the value of hearing voices groups

Full post here

Beyond Homeless: Finding Hope

7/5/2022

 
BeyondHomeless.org invites you to a private screening of its new documentary Beyond Homeless: Finding Hope. This hard-hitting, challenging film explores the root causes of street homelessness—and presents transformational, proven solutions.

Read the report: Beyond Homeless: Policy Solutions for the Bay Area and Beyond

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Prefer to watch the film on your Smart TV, Apple TV, or other streaming device? Here's how: Click the Watch Now button above. Once you've registered and the film starts playing, click the Watch Later button in the upper right corner of the video player. In the popup window, log into your Vimeo account, or create a new Vimeo account. Then download the Vimeo app on your other device, log in there and the film will be listed in your Watch Later list.


AVAILABLE TO STREAM: FEB 16TH - JUL 31ST

Link to video here.

Services provided by the homeless shelter in Grass Valley

7/5/2022

 
Information about the homeless shelter in Grass Valley and information about their Hospitality House project.
Grass Valley is northeast of Sacramento.
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Read the full information here.

Doctors Gave Her Antipsychotics. She Decided to Live With Her Voices. By Daniel Bergner

5/30/2022

 
Caroline Mazel-Carlton began hearing voices when she was in day care. Mornings, by the time she was in middle school, a bowl of oatmeal awaited her for breakfast next to a white saucer of colorful pills. Her voices remained vibrant. They weren’t within her head; they spoke and screamed from outside her skull. They belonged to beings she could not see.

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Meta-Analysis IDs Best Psychotherapy Interventions for Schizophrenia Relapse Prevention by Jolynn Tumolo

1/24/2022

 
Family interventions, family psychoeducation, and cognitive behavioral therapy provide clear, robust benefits for relapse prevention in people with schizophrenia, according to findings from a systematic review and network meta-analysis published in The Lancet Psychiatry.


“These treatments should be the first psychosocial interventions to be considered in the long-term treatment for patients with schizophrenia,” researchers advised.


Read full article here.

Breaking the Silence (2021)(YouTube)

6/14/2021

 

Making Contact with the Human Experience by Matt Ball

5/8/2021

 
Mary Duhig (2005) described the role of supporter in mental health as an experience that encounters common humanity. She notes, ‘Psychotherapy is an ethical enterprise… a work of love, for it must be open to the value of any other person … someone with whom we share a common humanity’.  Mary goes on to suggest the goal of our work is to ‘discover what is a good life within the parameters of a person’s life’.  She is inviting us to be deeply connected to the human within ourselves and the other with whom we are seeking to be in a human-to-human relationship.  

​Read the full article here

On 4/22/21, award winning author Robert Whitaker will lead an ISPS-US webinar on “The Rising Non-Pharmaceutical Paradigm for "Psychosis" -12:00 PM – 1:30 PM EDT (New York time)

4/12/2021

 
Join in to learn how current research is questioning past assumptions on antipsychotics, and how nonpharmaceutical approaches are springing up globally.

See full information here.

How Public Officials Can Protect the Rights of Prisoners with Mental Illness By Jennifer Honig

4/12/2021

 
In the U.S., one third to one half of people in state prisons and local jails have mental illness. Despite this fact, funding for prison mental health care has been historically inadequate, which limits access to and quality of treatment.
It is illegal to discriminate against prisoners with mental illness, and that includes failing to provide accommodations and reasonable treatment for serious mental health conditions. Yet, “the U.S. prison system often falls short of meeting acceptable standards of care.”

​read full article here.

Successful and Schizophrenic By Elyn R. Saks

1/15/2021

 
      THIRTY years ago, I was given a diagnosis of schizophrenia. My prognosis was “grave”: I would never live independently, hold a job, find a loving partner, get married. My home would be a board-and-care facility, my days spent watching TV in a day room with other people debilitated by mental illness. I would work at menial jobs when my symptoms were quiet. Following my last psychiatric hospitalization at the age of 28, I was encouraged by a doctor to work as a cashier making change. If I could handle that, I was told, we would reassess my ability to hold a more demanding position, perhaps even something full-time.

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