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Videos for Clinicians

This section contains links to lecture material presented at previous MIRECC sponsored accredited continuing education (CE) conferences.

Rehabilitation and Recovery of the Client with Psychosis:
Evidence-based Practice
Held on October 28-30, 2004

Highlights the general principles of the recovery and rehabilitation that are emphasized in the President's New Freedom Commission and the VA Action Agenda reports

Treatment and Rehabilitation of the Client with Psychosis:
Latest Developments
Held on April 11-12, 2003

Includes updates on the use of pharmacologic treatments, and state-of-the-art approaches to managing the treatment of individuals with psychosis, including those with substance abuse and medical co-morbidities. In addition, we present discussions of cognitive and vocational rehabilitation and cognitive behavioral therapy. Finally, the role of consumers and family members in rehabilitation will be discussed.

Treating Patients with Psychosis:
Improving Functional Outcome
Held on April 12-13, 2002.

Reviews barriers to funtion in patients with serious mental illness in addition to describing innovative psycho-social interventions.

Psychosis Does Not Stand Alone:
Issues in Co-Morbidity
Held on December 2-3, 2000

Presents issues related to substance abuse, depression, dementia, weight control, sleep, polypharmacy and managing medical illnesses in patients with psychosis.

Issues in Geropsychiatry:
Management of Psychosis and Agitation
Held September 20, 2000

This 3-part course outlines clinical presentation and treatment of agitation and psychosis in the elderly population.

Non-MIRECC On-Line Lectures

This section contains links to lecture material presented at non-MIRECC sponsored events. We are not responsible for the content of these lectures but provide links to them as a service to the communitiy of mental health providers.

UCLA NPI Grand Rounds Online

Achieving Remission in Schizophrenia

Stephen Marder, M.D.
Professor-in-Residence
Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
Semel Institute at UCLA

Improving the Quality of Care for Psychiatric Disorders

Alexander S. Young, M.D., M.S.H.S.
Director, Health Services Unit, VISN 22 MIRECC
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
UCLA Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences

A Philip R.A. May Memorial Lecture
Long Term Metabolic Consequences of Atypical Antipsychotic Agents

William C. Wirshing, M.D.
Professor of Psychiatry
UCLA Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences

Alcohol Screening and Brief Intervention Curriculum

A freely available web-based training curriculum geared toward generalist clinicians sponsored by the Alcohol Clinical Training Project of the Boston Medical Center and Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health.

Symposium on Mental Health and Public Policy

January 12, 2002
UC Berkeley/UCLA

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Videos for Consumers

This section contains links to lecture material geared more towards consumers and family members.

I am Not Sick, I Don't Need Help

by Xavier Amador, Ph.D.
Presented by NAMI California
September 9, 2001

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