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2. Management of Psychotic Disorders in a College Setting
The Healthy Minds Network Webinar Series
Session #19, February 2017

3. Welcome and About The Healthy Minds Network
Research-to-practice network based at University of Michigan
Public health approach to mental health among young people
HMN Research-to-Practice Objectives:
(1) produce knowledge (research)
(2) distribute knowledge (dissemination)
(3) use knowledge (practice)

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5. Today’s Webinar Management of Psychotic Disorders in a College Setting
Presenters
John Miner, M.D.
Consultant for college/university health services; assists in teaching and supervision at the Berkshire Medical Center Psychiatry Residency Program
Dori Hutchinson, Sc.D., CPRP
Director of Services at the Center of Psychiatric Rehabilitation at Boston University
Alan Siegel, Ed.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

6. Webinar Agenda Overview and Assessment – John Miner
Day-to-Day Challenges of Managing Psychosis on Campus – Alan Siegel
Leaves & Returns, Accommodations, and Accessing Treatment Resources – Dori Hutchinson
Discussion
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7. Overview and Assessment
Dr. John Miner, M.D., was the Assistant Clinical Director and Director of Continuing Treatment Programs at the Austen Riggs Center. Afterwards, he opened a private practice and worked part time at Williams College as Co-Director of Psychological Services for 15 years, was named Fellow in the American College Health Association in 2013, and retired in Currently, he works as a consultant for college and university health services and assists in teaching and supervision at the Berkshire Medical Center Psychiatry Residency Program in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.

8. Day-to-Day Challenges of Managing Psychosis on Campus
Dr. Alan E. Siegel, Ed.D., was the Chief of Mental Health and Counseling at MIT Medical from A teacher and clinical supervisor for more than 40 years, Dr. Siegel is an Assistant Professor of Psychology (part-time), Department of Psychiatry, at Harvard Medical School. His special areas of interest include the psychotherapy and support of persons with mood disorders and psychoses.

9. Leaves & Returns, Accommodations, and Accessing Treatment Resources
Dr. Dori Hutchinson, Sc.D., CPRP, is the Director of Services at the Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation at Boston University, where she has worked for 32 years.  Dori and her staff utilize an educational and coaching approach, helping students living with serious mental illnesses develop critical skills and supports so they can thrive in their roles as students.

10. Discussion (Q&A)
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11. Submitted questions
1. How to deal with resistance to counseling/and getting help? 2. How can we provide support to the friends/roommates and teammates of the students who are suffering a mental illness? 3. Given the unique positions community colleges have when working with non-residential and possibly part-time students, how we can be supportive to students who may not spend much time on campus? 4. How to assess dangerousness/risk of psychotic or severely mentally ill student on a large diverse urban campus? 5. What is the criteria to decide if a student with a psychotic disorder should be allowed to continue attending classes? 6. What to do when a student with a serious psychiatric disorder cannot afford or refuses to receive psychiatric help, and insists on attending the school? 7. How do online and/or mobile (apps) programs come into play in treating severe mental illness in the college community? 8. How to address these issues among the international student population? 9. What is a role that college counseling centers can play with serious mental illness, and how different should it be from community mental health centers? 10. What are thoughts on treating or providing appropriate care in a brief-therapy treatment model? 11. Any information on substance-induced psychotic episodes? 12. How these cases might be managed both in terms of across university (Dean of Students, Housing, Academics, etc.) as well as ways in which (or if) affiliations may have been created with outside services or hospitals that have been helpful? 13. How do you address threatening behavior? 14. How to manage a transfer from college to hospitalization with a psychotic patient? 15. How to address military/vet PTSD? 16. How to address these issues in the context of a non-native English speaker? 17. How to manage not only the work in a college counseling center, but also dealing with classroom and residence hall issues? 18. What steps do you take if the student's relative(s)/significant other(s) refuse to cooperate (e.g. refuse to communicate with counselling staff regarding treatment or follow through with treatment plans)? 19. Considerations for experiential learning. To explain further - academic support is easier to arrange for assignments and exams in a class setting, but for programs that have an experiential learning component (like a practicum), there are many unpredictable variables that can be a part of this situational learning and I'm wondering what strategies may be recommended to support students in this regard?

12. Thank You!
Today’s webinar slides will be available on the HMN website: John Miner: Alan Siegel: Dori Hutchinson: Healthy Minds Network: |