Alternatives to Biological Psychiatry: If We Don't Medicate, What Do We Do?
A conference for clinicians, researchers, consumers, parents, and families.
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Oct 28, 2011 12:00 AM
to Oct 29, 2011 12:00 AM |
| Where | Los Angeles, CA |
| Contact Name | Dr. Michael Gilbert |
| Contact Phone | (315) 382-0541 |
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Most attendees find the annual mental health conference the most stimulating, useful, intellectually challenging, and friendly meetings they ever attend! October 28-29, 2011 in Los Angeles - Alternatives to Biological Psychiatry: If We Don't Medicate, What Do We Do? This conference has prominent social work presence and implications for practice, policy, advocacy, and research.
Students are eligible for discounts or scholarships, please email Dr. Jeffrey Lacasse or call (602) 496-0067 for more information.
Topics Include:
- Safe, humane, life-enhancing methods of treating adults, children, families and couples in psychological distress without reliance on psychotropic drugs.
- Consumer-centered interventions that help people move towards full recovery.
- Restoring psychotherapy as a first-line intervention in behavioral health.
- What parents and families can do to help children without reliance on psychotropic drugs.
- Withdrawing from psychotropic drugs: Clinical indications, safety and supervision concerns.
- The impact of the pharmaceutical industry on evidencebased clinical mental health practice.
- 50 years after “The Myth of Mental Illness”: Reflections on modern psychiatry.
- Treating children and adults with integrative care.
