[NYAPRS Enews] Dec 7 Webinar 'Prevention and Holistic Approaches to Wellness'

[Harvey Rosenthal]

Training Teleconference

 


Prevention and Holistic Approaches to Wellness: A Fresh Perspective on


Mental Health Recovery


December 7, 2010


 

Prevention and holistic approaches have the potential to unlock our
self-healing capacities so we can manage stress more effectively and
prevent or effectively manage health conditions without reliance on
costly and potentially harmful interventions.

-Peggy Swarbrick, Ph.D., Director, Institute for Wellness Recovery
Initiatives, Collaborative Support Programs of New Jersey

People diagnosed with mental health problems have significantly shorter
life spans and are more likely to have serious but preventable health
conditions-including obesity, diabetes, and hypertension-compared to
people who do not have mental health problems. Traditionally, the mental
health field has focused primarily on a person's psychiatric
stabilization rather than taking a broader, holistic approach that looks
at the wellness of the whole person-mind, body, and spirit. Recent
preventive and holistic approaches along with complementary and
alternative medicines (CAMs) have shown success in improving the overall
health of individuals with mental health problems which contributes to
their ability to live a more full and satisfying life in the community.

The SAMHSA 10x10 Wellness Campaign <http://www.10x10.samhsa.gov/>
invites you to a free training teleconference titled "Prevention and
Holistic Approaches to Wellness: A Fresh Perspective on Mental Health
Recovery."

This teleconference will educate diverse stakeholders about both
peer-delivered and community mental health provider-delivered
alternatives to wellness that focus on building resiliency and
supporting individuals to establish healthier lifestyles. It also will
address how to create educational campaigns and outreach to disseminate
information about complementary and alternative healing practices in the
context of rigorous science. 

Date and Time

Tuesday, December 7, 2010
3 p.m.-4:30 p.m. Eastern Time (ET)

Presenters

o   Sherry Jenkins Tucker, CPS, Executive Director Georgia Mental Health
Consumer Network, Inc.

o   Ken Jue, M.S.W., Senior Executive of Monadnock Family Services,
Founder and Creator of In SHAPE

o   Prachi Patel, Public Affairs Specialist, National Center for
Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM), National Institutes of
Health

Questions?

This training teleconference will include a question-and-answer session.
We invite you to submit questions at any time before or during the
teleconference. To submit questions before the teleconference, please
e-mail 10x10 at samhsa.hhs.gov <mailto:10x10 at samhsa.hhs.gov> . Speakers
will answer as many questions as possible during the Q&A session, but we
cannot guarantee that your question will be addressed. We will provide
the presenters' contact information so that you may contact them
directly for a response or additional information. 

Please note: You may submit anonymous questions; however, if you provide
your name and organization when submitting a question, we may use it
during the call. 

Training Sponsor

This teleconference is sponsored by the SAMHSA 10x10 Wellness Campaign
<http://www.10x10.samhsa.gov/> , a project of the Center for Mental
Health Services (CMHS), a center within the Substance Abuse and Mental
Health Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services. 

 

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