Behavioral Healthcare recently published a two-part interview with author Robert Whitaker as well as an article about the Hearing Voices Network; and The New York Times ran an article highlighting the importance of peer support. The two-part Whitaker interview – by Bill Anthony, Ph.D., and Lori Ashcraft, Ph.D. – covers Whitaker’s thoughts about the effectiveness of psychotropic medications (among other topics) and includes a sidebar from a critic of his views.
Said Whitaker, “. . . [U]nfortunately I’m afraid psychiatry no longer knows how to get back on track with honest reporting of what it does and does not know, and honest investigations of psychiatric medications. . . . Ultimately, I think we need a new paradigm built on the framework of psychosocial and recovery practices.” The Hearing Voices Network story, published online, covers a presentation by Daniel Hazen, executive director of Voices of the Heart Inc., and Oryx Cohen director of the National Empowerment Center Technical Assistance Center. They offered strategies for handling the experience of hearing voices. “The notion that peer-led groups might help voice-hearers to tame and better live with their voices was, in the words of one local psychiatrist, ‘liberating,’ ” Behavioral Healthcare reported.
The New York Times article featured the story of Antonio Lambert, diagnosed with bipolar disorder and a co-occurring substance use disorder, who was sentenced to 22 years in prison when he was 17 years old. Today, Antonio trains peer specialists across the United States. The article – the last of a five-part series entitled “Restoring Lives,” about individuals with psychiatric diagnoses who are in recovery – quoted Larry Davidson of Yale University: “Peers are living, breathing proof that recovery is possible, that it is real.”
Sources: http://www.behavioral.net/ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=9B6FFC446FF7486981EA3C0C3CCE4943&nm=Archives&type=Publishing&mod=Publications%3A%3AArticle&mid=64D490AC6A7D4FE1AEB453627F1A4A32&tier=4&id=A5BC331586DC4D8B89B194044A0D83F1
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Friday, December 23, 2011
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Deadlines Approach for Four Webinars
Four webinars – on “Demystifying Trauma,” “Working with Voices,” Starting a Peer-Run Respite, and Coalition-Building, respectively – will take place next week! “Demystifying Trauma: Sharing Pathways to Healing and Wellness,” organized by SAMHSA’s ADS Center (Resource Center to Promote Acceptance, Dignity and Social Inclusion Associated with Mental Health), will take place Sept. 26, 2011, 3 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. ET. Registration closes at 5 p.m. ET on Sept. 25. To register, click on the following link: http://promoteacceptance.samhsa.gov/teleconferences/archive/training/teleconference09262011.aspx.
“Working with Voices” will focus on the Hearing Voices Network and Hearing Voices Groups, which do not pathologize hearing voices or other altered experiences. It will take place Sept. 27, 1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. ET. Space is limited; to register, click here: http://cts.vresp.com/c/?NationalMentalHealth/14baa0ba54/ac1ab23981/db99ce0be4. “So You Want to Start a Peer-Run Respite?” will take place on Sept. 28, 1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. ET. It the first webinar in a peer-run respite series sponsored by the National Empowerment Center. Space is limited; registration will close on Sept. 27.
To register, click here: https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/728369694.
“Coalition Building 101 for Mental Health Consumers and Psychiatric Survivors: Finding Common Ground with Each Other and Allies,” to be held Sept. 30, 2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. ET, will include how to address obstacles to sustaining a coalition, action steps to build and/or sustain a coalition, what to do when groups may be competing for the same resources, and more!
To register, e-mail rsvppeerlink@gmail.com with “Coalition Building” in the subject line
Sources: http://promoteacceptance.samhsa.gov
http://www.nyaprs.org
http://www.power2u.org
SAMHSA/CMHS Consumer Affairs E-News, September 20, 2011
“Working with Voices” will focus on the Hearing Voices Network and Hearing Voices Groups, which do not pathologize hearing voices or other altered experiences. It will take place Sept. 27, 1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. ET. Space is limited; to register, click here: http://cts.vresp.com/c/?NationalMentalHealth/14baa0ba54/ac1ab23981/db99ce0be4. “So You Want to Start a Peer-Run Respite?” will take place on Sept. 28, 1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. ET. It the first webinar in a peer-run respite series sponsored by the National Empowerment Center. Space is limited; registration will close on Sept. 27.
To register, click here: https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/728369694.
“Coalition Building 101 for Mental Health Consumers and Psychiatric Survivors: Finding Common Ground with Each Other and Allies,” to be held Sept. 30, 2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. ET, will include how to address obstacles to sustaining a coalition, action steps to build and/or sustain a coalition, what to do when groups may be competing for the same resources, and more!
To register, e-mail rsvppeerlink@gmail.com with “Coalition Building” in the subject line
Sources: http://promoteacceptance.samhsa.gov
http://www.nyaprs.org
http://www.power2u.org
SAMHSA/CMHS Consumer Affairs E-News, September 20, 2011
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