Evidence Based and Culturally Responsive Ways of Working with Psychosis | 1 CE Credit

CARE Counseling has partnered with M Health Fairview Psychiatry Clinic's First Episode Psychosis Strengths Program, which is affiliated with the University of Minnesota's Medical School and the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.  This team will provide an overview on Evidence-Based and Culturally Responsive Ways of Working with Psychosis. Joining us will be Jewels Lindholm, MSW, LICSW, the Program Director and clinician; Max Hunter, MPH, MSW, LGSW, family clinician & therapist; and Lionel Wininger, PhD, psychologist, clinician, and researcher. This team will share clinically proven treatment approaches for responsive cultural adaptations to commonly used interventions in an outpatient therapy setting. This team has a passion for first-episode psychosis and early bipolar disorder work and will speak to various psychosocial factors to consider while working with diverse populations as well as provide outpatient strategies for working 

This Grand Rounds training is approved for 1 CE hour. Attendees must attend the full training to receive CE.  

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Level of programming is introductory: assumes minimal familiarity with the topic.

The CARE Grand Rounds is intended to help attendees: 

• Describe one+ evidence-based supportive cultural adaptation while working
• Name one+ cultural factor to consider when working with individuals with this lived experience

The presentation is designated for psychologists and mental health professionals (LP, LPC/LPCC, MFT/LMFT, LGSW/LICSW, LADC), pre-licensed mental health practitioners, and students. 

CARE Counseling is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. CARE maintains responsibility for this program and its content.  

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About the Presenter: 

Jewels Lindholm, MSW, LICSW, is the Program Director and clinician at the MHealth First Episode Psychosis -Strengths Program. Jewels has been a part of this growing team for 7 years and has a passion for early intervention with psychosis and bipolar disorder. As an experienced mental health clinician and leader with a demonstrated history of working with diverse populations in outpatient, community, and inpatient treatment settings, Jewels can speak to cultural factors that impact mental health care and provide strategies for supporting individuals and their families with this lived experience. "I am inspired by my family's life experiences which have influenced my commitment to mental health care and improving the lives of those experiencing challenges because of mental illness." 

Lionel Wininger, PhD is the Chief Clinical Psychologist and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at the University of Minnesota Medical School. His work focuses on improving treatment for early psychosis and is supported by the NIMH-funded EPINET (Early Psychosis Intervention Network) project. He provides training and consultation to the research and clinical teams and work directly with individual patients, groups, and families impacted by psychosis or prodromal/clinical high-risk symptoms. He also supervises trainees and clinicians in psychiatry, psychology, and social work. My career has concentrated broadly on severe and persistent mental illness with a specific focus on the emergence of psychotic disorders in adolescents and young adults. In my current role, he has helped implement a Personalized Summary of measurement-based care feedback for patients, family, and clinicians in early psychosis Coordinated Specialty Care programs. Prior to his current position, he was an Assistant Professor at Albert Einstein Medical College - Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, NY, leading a multidisciplinary outpatient team (“OnTrack”) serving teens and young adults with early psychosis. He was a clinical supervisor in the psychiatry residency and psychology internship programs, and created electives to provide trainees with more experience working with early psychosis.