2020 Conference Session Recordings
A Unique IPE Training Challenge: Behavioral Health Inter-Institutional Collaboration across Three Disciplines – Nursing, Sociology, and Counseling Students Learning Together
October 1, 2020 10:00 a.m. Central Time (US and Canada) Liane Connelly, PhD, RN University on Nebraska Medical Center – College of Nursing Monica Snowden, PhD Wayne State College Department of Psychology and Sociology Cody W Dickson, PhD The Chicago School of Professional Psychology Lisa A Walters, MS,RN University of Nebraska Medical Center – College of Nursing Bridget Thoene University of Nebraska Medical Center – College of Nursing |
This pilot study brought together 94 bachelor’s level students from two institutional systems to form nine Interprofessional teams. The Interprofessional education goal of this training opportunity was to enhance comprehension of the roles, functions, self-perceptions, and understanding within the teams of faculty and students across three disciplines. The teams were given the challenge of addressing a behavioral health case scenario from nursing, counseling, and sociological perspectives. The students were directed to formulate a healthcare team response to case studies with consideration to appropriate theoretical approaches, counseling techniques, assessments, interventions, and cultural and structural vulnerabilities. The round table members will discuss the successes and challenges of bringing together two institutional systems and three disciplines over a semester to engage in an Interprofessional education opportunity, for the first time, with undergraduate students. The round table will provide examples of discipline specific questions, treatment plan decisions, student PowerPoints, and a synopsis of the student results. The session will include Interprofessional Education Collaborative competencies, logistics, and faculty and student feedback from the event. The round table facilitators will guide the discussion with specific questions to help meet the learning objectives as well as facilitate a Q&A session for the audience.
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Victor Turner, an anthropologist, introduced the concept of the liminal, from Arnold Van Gennep’s research on rites of passage. The liminal is the realm of the in-between, the place between here and there, the space and time of thresholds. We may think of today’s pandemic as a global rite of passage, and together we are in that middle point of liminality. We are on the verge of something, different from what we know and understand. In an existential way, we are challenged to meet the challenge and discover renewal, or to flounder and suffer despair. This keynote will ask the question: How do liminal beings survive and even better, thrive? We will briefly examine survival strategies, self-care for personal renewal, for the liminal time. But more importantly we will ask the question, what does it mean to thrive, especially amidst threat and uncertainty? Finally, the presentation will close with the question of how we find existential or spiritual renewal, which includes finding purpose, meaning, and even inspiration.
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Keynote Address
Crisis and New Beginnings: Surviving and Thriving in a Liminal Time Oct 1, 2020 11:15 AM Central Time (US and Canada) Donald Moss, PhD Saybrook University |
Authentic and Servant Healthcare Leaders: Addressing the COVID-19 Crisis
October 1, 2020 12:30 PM Central Time (US and Canada) Dorianne Cotter-Lockard, PhD Saybrook University Christina A. Grosso, LCAT, ATR-BC, BCETS Saybrook University Ami Kunimura, MA, MT-BC Saybrook University |
Even before the advent of the COVID-19 crisis, our world context has grown increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA), incurring disruption to organizations, industries, and economies. The current pandemic magnifies the psychological impacts to leaders and front-line healthcare workers as they face difficult ethical decisions based on ambiguous information. Our panelists demonstrate the application of authentic and servant leadership theory, psychological capital theory, mindfulness, and creativity to address the challenges faced by healthcare leaders during the COVID-19 pandemic. We introduce a novel application of psychological capital (PsyCap) theory to support leadership development, which used the PsyCap assessment to create an action plan to support a leader and her clients during the COVID-19 crisis, along with an example which illustrates how a mental health practitioner used artistic expression to maintain her own mental health and to help her patients through the crisis. Participants will discuss the application of servant and authentic leadership models to assist healthcare practitioners face the challenges of the COVID-19 crisis, discuss the impacts of mindfulness practices and creative expression on well-being and mental health outcomes, and learn how they can apply the elements of psychological capital to one’s own state of hope, efficacy, resilience, and optimism.
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Interprofessional collaboration is becoming increasingly important across a variety of disciplines, including, but not limited to, public health, applied behavioral analysis, and psychology. There are numerous benefits to be gained from engaging with professionals from fields other than your own, with the potential to positively impact communities both locally and around the globe. It can also be inspiring and fun! If you’ve ever wanted to do more to connect with other disciplines but were not sure how, or even if you already have expertise in interprofessional collaboration and simply want to expand your network of cross-disciplinary colleagues, please join us to learn, share, and innovate! Each of the presenters has developed projects and programs that included interprofessional and international collaboration. They will share strategies and discuss ideas on how to build interprofessional bridges in practice, research, and education - and look forward to interactive engagement with panel attendees. At the end of the panel discussion, we will summarize all the ideas we’ve collected and share these with our wider TCS community, with the aim of developing more interprofessional research projects, committees, programs, certificates, and service-learning opportunities.
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How We IPE – An Interactive Discussion of Cool Ways to Collaborate Across Professions
This session is brought to you as a GLOBE Talk in partnership with TCS Global Engagement October 1, 2020 1:45 PM Central Time (US and Canada) Robyn Catagnus, EdD, BCBA-D, LBS The Chicago School of Professional Psychology Mudita Dave, Ph.D. The Chicago School of Professional Psychology Kelley Haynes-Mendez, PsyD The Chicago School of Professional Psychology Annette Griffith, PhD, BCBA-D The Chicago School of Professional Psychology Kasey Bedard, MS, BCBA The Chicago School of Professional Psychology |
On the Front Lines: Training Psychologists as Primary Care Providers
October 1, 2020 3:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada) Sarah Shelton, PsyD, MPH, MSCP Spalding University Sarah Denen, MA; Adam Maple; Sheila Cundiff, MSW; John Penezic; Bailey DeSpain; Edna Osei Owusu, M.S., M.A.; Heather Dombrowsky; Steve Katsikas, PhD Spalding University |
Within the field of psychology, traditional mental health services are a luxury that is often not available to those with the greatest need. Furthermore, due to the relationship between mental and physical health, accessibility, and cost, primary care settings are uniquely positioned to provide brief mental health interventions to patients. As such, in order to better serve those individuals with the most need and least access to mental health services, availability of said services within primary care settings serving under-resourced and under served populations is of utmost importance. However, such integration and availability of concurrent mental health and primary medical treatment, particularly in under served and at-risk areas, remains sparse. Integrated training models, such as the highlighted program developed and implemented at Spalding University, offer the opportunity for psychology trainees to gain valuable exposure to patients and healthcare providers to adapt and modify evidence-based practice techniques to fit the environment and context of the primary care appointment. Incorporating the primary care behavioral health consultation model more formally into the routine of primary care visits not only increases patients' access to competent and comprehensive care, but also decreases stigma and public misconceptions of mental health.
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Restorative practice, originating within the academic discipline of conflict resolution, increasingly draws upon research from psychology, education, and social work. The presenters, each restorative practitioners, will orient participants to a restorative approach relevant to interdisciplinary and diverse online learning contexts in higher education. The need for collective learning spaces to navigate uncertainty, to express grief and hope, and to plan creative action is increasingly evident in face of pandemic scenarios as well as emergencies such as escalating inequities, racism, and climate change. After reviewing recent research in restorative practice, including a focus on trauma informed practice, we will discuss how circles can address these needs by strengthening learning communities and by supporting deep and difficult learning. Several distinct types of restorative circles will be discussed; community-building circles that help strengthen a learning container for challenging discussion, consensus decision making circles that enact participatory democracy, and conflict circles that seek to repair harm. Participants will practice a circle process to receive a felt sense of a restorative circle in an online context. The session will conclude with a discussion of how to ethically use circles within an online learning environment, as well as recommendations for further training.
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Restorative Circle Praxis: Trauma Informed Teaching and Learning for Justice and Healing
October 1, 2020 4:15 PM Central Time (US and Canada) Joy Meeker, PhD Saybrook University Amanda Smith-Byron, Ed.D Saybrook University Janice Jerome, MA Saybrook University |