FRIDAY NIGHT GUEST LECTURE SERIES 2023-24

Continuing education to follow

Despite a tendency to avoid the warnings, times of crisis summon clinicians to emerge from comfortable consulting rooms. Daily engaged with human suffering, they now face the inextricably bound together crises of global warming and massive social injustices. Considering historical and emotional causes of climate unconsciousness and of compulsive consumerism, we argue that only a radical ethics of responsibility to be “my other’s keeper” will truly wake us up to climate change and bring psychoanalysts to actively take on responsibilities. Linking climate justice to radical ethics by way of psychoanalysis, we here consider relevant aspects of psychoanalytic expertise, referring to work on trauma, mourning, and the transformation of trouble into purpose.

Register here: https://education.austenriggs.org/content/climate-emergency-psychoanalysis-and-radical-ethics-donna-orange-phd-psyd-live

Continuing Education Information to follow - Estimated  3 CE/CME credit

According to the National Institutes of Health, almost 20% of children and young people ages 3-17 in the United States have a mental, emotional, developmental, or behavioral disorder, with suicidal behaviors among high school students having risen over 40% in the last 15 years. These trends were exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and have had a differential impact on systemically marginalized populations. About half of young children in the USA live in or near poverty, also a social driver of family mental health. While individual treatment is an important approach to addressing the crisis, community-wide efforts aimed at systemic intervention and prevention are essential. In this conference we will learn about creative approaches to building community-based partnerships to support at risk families and youth. We will examine the social and structural determinants of health and consider approaches to health equity improvement including how community narratives can build collaboration.

Speakers:

Marcella Nunez-Smith, MD, MHS, Inaugural Associate Dean for Health Equity Research, Yale School of Medicine

Megan V. Smith, DrPH, MPH, Senior Director, Community Health Transformation at Connecticut Hospital Association

Clara Blustein Lindholm, Director of Research Interpretation for the Culture Change Project at the FrameWorks Institute

Learning Objectives

1. After attending this conference participants will be able to describe the relationship between maternal mental health and early childhood mental health. 

1. After attending this conference, participants will be able to describe the benefits of creating a framing narrative for addressing substance misuse in adolescents in the local community. 

1. After attending this conference, participants will be able to describe the social determinants of mental health. 

1. After attending this conference, the participants will be able to list three ways that disparities in access to care in childhood have long-term effects. 

1. After attending this conference, the participants will identify two ways to strengthen the social safety net for children and families. 

   Register here: https://education.austenriggs.org/content/2024-riggs-yale-conference-building-community-partnerships-address-strains-social-safety-net

About This Webinar

Throughout OneOp’s “That’s the Ticket” series, our expert presenters have covered how essential attachment relationships are for infant and early childhood mental health (IECMH)! Over the course of this series, we’ve heard your requests for more information on this important topic! Therefore, this webinar addresses what you, our participants, have asked for – implementing the information provided into practice.

This session discusses ideas, strategies, and resources for fostering healthy attachment. Presenters also share ideas for supporting, sustaining, or repairing when attachment might be disrupted, such as during deployment or in situations where a caregiver and child might be separated. Join us and add to your “attachment” toolbox with ideas for ensuring young children and families can develop and experience healthy attachment relationships.

Learning Objectives:

In this webinar we will:

• Identify ideas, strategies, and resources for fostering healthy attachment.

• Describe ideas for supporting, sustaining, or repairing when attachment might be disrupted.

• Reflect on how the shared ideas, strategies, and resources can be embedded into their own practice.

  Register here: https://oneop.org/learn/160010/

Dr. Lisa Coyne Answers Questions on Social Media Habits

“Like” it or not, social media has an effect on our mental health. Not only does it provide a lens in which you can see what you’re missing out on, having a filter put on appearances and life events can make it hard to tell what’s real and what isn’t. Is it possible to break the habits of social media consumption? And even more importantly, how do we know when to log off and take care of ourselves?

In this previously recorded session, Lisa W. Coyne, PhD, discusses the impact of social media on our mental health, shares how to set ground rules for digital consumption for you and your loved ones, and answers questions about loosening the grasp social media has on so many of us.

Register here: https://home.mcleanhospital.org/webinar-32?hsCtaTracking=c0854391-e498-4b25-8af2-86b062d58832%7C9f60ed5f-f692-4254-93ca-40ab2f8c24bf#register

Dr. Byron Garcia Offers Tips to Destigmatize Mental Health in Young Men

Despite the progress that’s been made in talking about and addressing mental health, stigma still remains—especially in young male populations. For many teen boys and young men, it can be difficult for them to express how they’re feeling or admit that they have been struggling with mental health. Despite efforts being made around freedom of emotional expression, many boys still feel pressured to put on a brave face and pretend things are all okay.

So how do we get our loved ones the support they need if they’re not expressing it? How can caretakers encourage their sons who may be struggling to open up?

Join us as Dr. Byron Garcia shares ways to create safe spaces for self-expression, explains the signs and symptoms of common mental health conditions in young men and boys, and answers questions about how to encourage male teens and young adults to seek treatment if it’s needed.

Register here