Understanding Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): A Brief Overview
This training provides practitioners in nursing home settings an understanding of PTSD, its symptoms, triggers, and outlooks. Specifically, it provides a guide on how to best support nursing home residents with PTSD through environmental accommodations, minimizing triggers, and providing support. View video This training library was supported by funding from the National Institute on Disability, […]
Approaches to Expand Strengths and Support Challenges as People Age with Serious Mental Health Conditions
The final webinar in the Supporting Recovery for People Aging with Serious Mental Health Conditions series highlight strengths and challenges for this population. Further, it identifies strategies for engagement, motivation, and resource development among older adults with serious psychiatric disabilities. View Section 1: Introduction and Section 2: Best Practices. This training library was supported by […]
Best Practices in Psychiatric Rehabilitation for People Aging with Serious Mental Health Conditions
Following the introduction segment, this second installment focuses on evidence based practice and important components of interventions for older adults with serious psychiatric disabilities. Dr. Michelle Zechner discusses the concept of healthy aging, and practices for empowering and developing hope for this population such as shared decision making. She also highlights self-management, integrated care, caregiver […]
Psychiatric Rehabilitation Philosophy and Goals to Promote Recovery for Older Adults
This 1.5 hour webinar installment introduces goals, values, and guiding principles for practitioners working with older adults with serious psychiatric disabilities. An emphasis is placed on the idea of recovery, utilizing case studies to investigate challenges, supports, and tools for living beyond symptoms. It is part of a 3 part series – view Session 2: […]
Psychosis in Late Life
This webinar outlines the causes, evaluation, and diagnosis of late-life psychosis for providers working with older adults. An introduction to primary and secondary psychotic disorders is made prior to discussing the roles and limitations of antipsychotic medications and other interventions. This training library was supported by funding from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, […]
Legal Principles & Decision Making in Practice
Practitioners working with older adults with serious mental health conditions may face situations where they need to navigate the informed consent process, guardianships, advance care directives, and the evaluation of competence and capacity. This self-paced course provides an introduction to these scenarios while also discussing associated ethical and legal implications. View course This training library […]
Effective Strategies for Managing Psychotropic Medications in Nursing Facilities
Sharing updates to Centers for medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) guidance, this webinar outlines requirements for convenience and chemical constraints, informed consent, gradual dose reductions, and critical element decisions for practitioners prescribing psychotropic medications in long-term care facilities. Best practices for psychotropic medication management and strategies for implementing a psychotropic medication stewardship team in a […]
Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) Implementation for Behavioral Health Equity in Nursing Facilities
Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) are introduced in this thirty-minute webinar along with the 15 action steps to support their implementation in long-term care facilities. The increased presence of individuals with psychiatric disabilities in nursing facilities indicates the need for incorporating these health equity promoting CLAS. View video This training library was supported by […]
Cognitive Behavioral Social Skills Training (CBSST) For Older Adults with Serious Mental Illness
Cognitive Behavioral Social Skills Training (CBSST) is an evidence based tool practitioners working with older adults with schizophrenia may utilize to support overall functioning. This one hour free webinar discusses the cognitive skills, social skills, and problem solving skills central to this training. View video This training library was supported by funding from the National […]
Clinical Confounds and Conflations: Serious Mental Illness, Dementia, or Both
When working with older adults it is important for practitioners to distinguish the sometimes overlapping symptomatic expressions of dementia and serious psychiatric disabilities. This hour and a half webinar highlights diagnoses, symptoms, risk factors, and care practices for practitioners working with older adults who may have a serious psychiatric disability, dementia, or both. View video […]