Trainings

Modules for families and advocates:


Terminology 101: Mental illness

Headshot of Judge Milt MackPresented by: 
Scott Smith, Ph.D.
Consultant, Center for Behavioral Health and Justice

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In this video, Scott Smith, Ph.D. gives in-depth definitions for some key terminology used when talking about mental illness and assisted outpatient treatment. Terms include mental illness, serious mental illness, developmental disability, basic physical needs, psychosis, hallucinations, command hallucinations, delusions, manic episode, hypomania, major depressive episode, impulsivity, crisis, suicidal ideation, suicide attempt, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, schizoaffective disorder, substance use disorder, co-occurring disorder. Use the youtube chapters to navigate this content.

  


Terminology 101: Treatment

Headshot of Judge Milt MackPresented by: 
Scott Smith, Ph.D.
Consultant, Center for Behavioral Health and Justice

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In this video, Scott Smith, Ph.D. gives in-depth definitions of some key terminology used when talking about assisted outpatient treatment treatment. Terms include the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), treatment, evidence-based treatment, outpatient treatment, earlier intervention, higher level of care, inpatient treatment, crisis residential unit, partial psychiatric hospitalization program, psychiatric urgent care, voluntary treatment, involuntary treatment). Use the youtube chapters to navigate this content.


Assisted outpatient treatment and anosognosia

headshot of Scott SmithPresented by: 
Scott Smith, Ph.D.
Consultant, Center for Behavioral Health and Justice

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This training, hosted by Scott Smith, Ph.D., is designed to help families and advocates a symptom of serious mental illness called anosognosia, how it contributes to someone's inability to consistently engage in treatment, and how assisted outpatient treatment is designed to help. Learn about how anosognosia, or the impairment to recognize one's illness, might be affecting certain areas of the brain. Use the chapters below to navigate the content in this video.

 

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