Date/Time
This training is not sponsored by the Anne Arundel County Mental Health Agency
15 CEs
Please note maximum attendance is 24 people
This is an in-person, introductory intensive in dialogic practice as it arose in Open Dialogue. Pioneered in Finland, dialogic practice in the Open Dialogue system is an empirically validated, network-based approach to severe psychiatric crises.
The focus is on developing a social network of family and helpers and reducing isolation by establishing a “dialogue,” i.e. a communicative relationship, with the patient. Among its signature features, Open Dialogue provides immediate help and organizes “a treatment meeting” within twenty-four hours of the initial contact.
The participants will gain experience with the specific clinical skills needed to conduct dialogic-network meetings.
This training will emphasize:
(1) The Key Elements of Dialogic Practice.
This practice invites the creation of a “dialogic space,” or context for listening. The relational skill set, or set of key elements, is the foundation.
(2) The Presence of the Therapist.
The focus here is on the therapist’s presence or optimal way of being. We will examine how to sustain presence or what IFS developer Richard Schwartz calls “Self-Leadership, the Eight Cs:” calmness, creativity, connectedness, curiosity, compassion, courage, confidence, and clarity in challenging clinical situations.
The framework is integrative and humanistic, and rooted in dialogic and reflecting-process work, which evolved from family therapy. Analytic and psychodynamic approaches, as well as the internal family systems approach, “IFS” also inform this training.
The framework is integrative and humanistic, and rooted in dialogic and reflecting-process work, which evolved from family therapy. Insights from analytic and psychodynamic-trauma approaches, as well as the internal family systems approach (IFS) also inform this training.
Learning Objectives Include:
Reflecting on the possibilities of dialogue in the treatment of the most severe psychiatric crises
Reflecting on the respectful use of the person’s social network and existing resources in the treatment of the most severe psychiatric crises and conditions
Reflecting on the use of self of the therapist in such crises and conditions
Designed for practicing clinicians, peer specialists, behavioral health professionals, and clinical supervisors and administrators.
Location:
Bon Secours Conference & Retreat Center, 1525 Marriottsville Rd, Marriottsville, Maryland 21104
Sponsored By: Mental Health Association of Maryland, On Our Own of Maryland, and Maryland Department of Health
Cost: $240.00, partial scholarships are available. Please email requests to ageddes@mhamd.org
For questions, email the Mental Health Association of Maryland at info@mhamd.org