Psychosis Sucks! Working with Young Adults Experiencing Severe Distress

This webinar will provide an overview of current evidence based understandings and unresolved questions about early interventions with young people diagnosed with psychosis.  Strategies to address and overcome the prevalent hopelessness and helplessness will be presented.  Approaches to educating and empowering TAY undergoing extreme distress will also be shared.  Practical interventions that can normalize disturbing experiences, decrease distress and enhance effective coping will be discussed.

Date Recorded: February 28, 2017

Learning Objectives

• Discuss contrasting views and conceptualizations of psychosis and schizophrenia and their implications for psychiatric rehabilitation.
• Facilitate educational dialogues about psychotic experiences designed to normalize and increase sense of hope and self-efficacy.
• Provide recovery oriented education for coping and managing distress.
• Identify “one size does not fit all” alternative approaches, such as Hearing Voices Networks, for youth who may wish to avoid traditional, medical model interventions.

Level

• Intermediate

Course Completion Requirements

In order to complete this course, participants must view the presentation, successfully pass a post-test, and submit an online evaluation.  Upon completion, CE Certificates will be available to print directly from the site.

Registration and Refund Policy

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Instructor(s)

Wayne Munchel, LCSW

Wayne Munchel has been involved with youth and young adult programs for the past 20 years.  As an Independent Consultant, he is currently providing trainings and program development to TAY and Recovery model programs for adults with serious mental health conditions.  He has worked extensively with Stars Behavioral Health Group as the Director of TAY (Transition Age Youth), and the Stars Training Academy in developing and training the Transition to Independence Process (TIP) model. Mr. Munchel has over 30 years of experience working in the mental health field and was one of the original staff of The Village, an innovative recovery model program serving adults with mental illness. Mr. Munchel recently developed the TAY FSP Tool Kit in collaboration with the California Institute of Mental Health.  He received his Masters in Social Work from UCLA in 1986.  

Mr. Munchel was the founder and Director of the Mental Health Associations’ Transition Age Youth (TAY) Academy from 2000 to 2009.  The model program helps young adults (ages 18 to 25) with psychiatric disabilities obtain housing, employment and educational opportunities and learn independent living skills.  The TAY Academy serves 100 young adults in the Long Beach community and was identified as a promising practice by the Department of Labor.