Psychiatric Care in Group Settings Learning Collaborative

Overview

Psychiatric Care in Group and Residential Treatment for Youth and Families: A DMH-facilitated Learning Collaborative

The learning community provides a forum for child and adolescent psychiatric care providers and colleagues who practice in group, residential and intensive treatment settings in Massachusetts to come together. Participants select clinical topics relevant to psychiatric care in group and residential treatment settings for youth to present and discuss and learn from each other. The series provides updates in relevant clinical areas such as: the current mental health crisis and innovative strategies to address the crisis, best practices 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 is 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.