Room: Windgate 60-61

Speaker(s): 

Angela Torres, PhD, ABPP

Presentation: This presentation will explore competency to stand trial with a special focus on outpatient or community-based restoration. Attendees will learn the foundations behind competency to stand trial, explore different restoration modalities, and review common issues with restoration and how to address them. This presentation will speak to common myths and stigma about forensic consumers and the important role restoration providers can play in the criminal justice system and in the care of justice-involved clients with serious mental illness. Finally, participants will leave the training with basic guidance about how to proceed with restoration, and recommendations to further build their own professional competence to provide restoration services.

Objectives:

• Understand the foundation competency to stand trial.
• Learn the basics of competency restoration, with a special focus on community-based restoration.
• Understand the role of restoration providers in the continuum of care and the criminal-legal system.
• Address stigma about common perceptions about forensic consumers.
• Review strategies to address barriers to community-based restoration.

Slides and Handouts:

Room: Windgate 60-61

Speaker(s): 

Angela Torres, PhD, ABPP

Presentation: This presentation will explore competency to stand trial with a special focus on outpatient or community-based restoration. Attendees will learn the foundations behind competency to stand trial, explore different restoration modalities, and review common issues with restoration and how to address them. This presentation will speak to common myths and stigma about forensic consumers and the important role restoration providers can play in the criminal justice system and in the care of justice-involved clients with serious mental illness. Finally, participants will leave the training with basic guidance about how to proceed with restoration, and recommendations to further build their own professional competence to provide restoration services.

Objectives:

• Understand the foundation competency to stand trial.
• Learn the basics of competency restoration, with a special focus on community-based restoration.
• Understand the role of restoration providers in the continuum of care and the criminal-legal system.
• Address stigma about common perceptions about forensic consumers.
• Review strategies to address barriers to community-based restoration.

Slides and Handouts:

Room: Windgate 60-61

Speaker(s): 

Angela Torres, PhD, ABPP

Presentation: This presentation will explore competency to stand trial with a special focus on outpatient or community-based restoration. Attendees will learn the foundations behind competency to stand trial, explore different restoration modalities, and review common issues with restoration and how to address them. This presentation will speak to common myths and stigma about forensic consumers and the important role restoration providers can play in the criminal justice system and in the care of justice-involved clients with serious mental illness. Finally, participants will leave the training with basic guidance about how to proceed with restoration, and recommendations to further build their own professional competence to provide restoration services.

Objectives:

• Understand the foundation competency to stand trial.
• Learn the basics of competency restoration, with a special focus on community-based restoration.
• Understand the role of restoration providers in the continuum of care and the criminal-legal system.
• Address stigma about common perceptions about forensic consumers.
• Review strategies to address barriers to community-based restoration.

Slides and Handouts:

Room: Windgate 60-61

Speaker(s): 

Angeline Stanislaus, MD

Presentation: Serious mental illnesses (SMI) are recurring illnesses that need long-term psychiatric and mental health care. Schizophrenia has a high rate of relapse, with up to 80 to 95% of individuals experiencing a relapse of symptoms within 2 to 5 years of recovery, particularly if the medication is discontinued (NIH). Bipolar disorder also has an annual relapse rate of about 25%. In this talk, Dr. Stanislaus will discuss the early signs of relapse in serious mental illnesses such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, how to prevent relapses, how to improve medication compliance and how to manage these patients without allowing them to have another full episode of their illness.

Objectives:

• To learn about the rates of relapses in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder
• To identify the early symptoms of relapse
• To learn strategies that improve medication compliance

Slides and Handouts: