Residential Psychiatric Care & Clinical Risk Webinar Series

The program is intended to provide psychiatric care providers and colleagues working in and in collaboration with therapeutic residential settings for youth and families. The program will provide updates about best practices regarding a variety of clinical concerns that are relevant to psychiatric care in these settings. The current COVID 19 public health crisis has been accompanied by a mental health crisis for youth and families. These issues have had a major impact on providers. Access to acute on intensive mental health services has been quite challenging and there are significant delays in being able to provide appropriate care for youth and families with acute and intensive needs. Staffing issues have contributed to clinical acuity in intensive treatment settings. Concerns about heightened aggression and suicide risk for youth are examples of clinical concerns that have been more prevalent in residential treatment settings.

The series will provide updates in relevant clinical areas including an overview of the current mental health crisis and innovative strategies to address the crisis, best practice in the assessment and intervention with high risk and complex clinical presentations and considerations to improve integration of psychiatric care providers in residential treatment settings. In addition, there will be a focus on issues of race, equity and inclusion that are relevant to clinical treatment and outcomes for youth and families in therapeutic residential treatment settings.

The role of psychiatric care provider in residential treatment settings for youth & families: Opportunities for integrated care and clinical leadership

  • Increase the quality of engagements with youth and their families

  • Enhance communication between psychiatric care providers and other RTF staff

  • Improve the capacity of data gathering and reporting systems

  • Identify opportunities for increased staff training on medications

With Dr. Christopher Bellonci, MD

 

Recorded March 11, 2002

Understanding the Clinical Complexity of Psychosis and Trauma in Severely Impacted Youth

  • Evidence for the relationship between childhood trauma and psychosis in adults and adolescents

  • Diagnostic Challenges: Cooccurrence and differential diagnosis

  • Moving from trauma-informed to trauma responsive mental health care

  • Evidence-based psychotherapeutic approaches for trauma and psychosis

With Yael Dvir MD & Brian Denietolis PsyD

 

Recorded February 11, 2022

Psychiatric Care and Clinical Risk for Youth and Families in Residential Treatment Settings: Impact of the Public Health Crisis

  • The current statewide crisis in the acute and intensive mental health services for youth in MA

  • Understanding the clinical complexity of psychosis and trauma in severely impacted youth

  • Race, Equity, and Inclusion in the context of residential treatment for youth and families.

With Kelly English PhD LICSW, Kathy Sanders MD, Doga Keith PhD & Youth Villages Intercept Team

Recorded January 28, 2022

 

Recorded May 13th, 2022

The Anger Interview: Assessment of Medication Treatment of Anger Management Issues in Youth in Residential Care Settings

“Mood swings” are not the same as angry outbursts — but many clients or parents may use “mood swings” when they are referring to angry outbursts.

  • What do you do when you lose your temper?

  • Not everyone with anger management problems has a diagnosable disorder that is the cause of the anger management problem.

  • If you know how anger works, it’s easy to ask about, and you can offer more specific treatment.

With Dr. Virginia Merritt.

 

Race, Equity, and Inclusion in the Context of Residential Treatment for Youth and Families

  • Studies show that adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are significantly related to lifelong mental health problems and lifetime mortality rates.

  • Youth from historically & chronically marginalized communities (i.e. racialized minorities, queer, gender variant, poor, indigenous & youth living with disabilities) are disproportionately represented in residential care settings.

  • What social inequities do marginalized youth face?

Presented by Dr. Treniece Lewis-Harris.

Recorded April 8th, 2022.