Re-positioning Mental Health Service Users as Educators in the Mental Health Professions-View Presentation Slides

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The document outlines a webinar organized by the American Psychiatric Association on November 17, 2023, focusing on re-positioning mental health service users as educators in mental health professions. This initiative includes continuing education credit offerings for various professionals like physicians, psychologists, and social workers. The webinar aims to explore an innovative model that integrates people with lived mental health experiences, known as peers, as educators within the mental health field.<br /><br />Specifically, it discusses the Columbia Public Psychiatry Fellowship's Peer Advisor Program, which positions service users as Peer Advisors to psychiatric trainees. This approach features a role-reversal dynamic that challenges the traditional power hierarchy between doctors and patients, promoting a collaborative educational environment that emphasizes recovery-oriented care over the medical model. The Peer Advisor Program supports psychiatry fellows in understanding and utilizing recovery principles, focusing on social determinants of health, and minimizing stigma and bias in mental healthcare.<br /><br />Goals of the program include encouraging dialogue and collaboration between peers and psychiatrists, hence transforming the typical hierarchical dynamic and creating a mutual learning environment. It also provides insights into integrating community and peer supports into psychiatric practices and developing skills for implementing trauma-informed care.<br /><br />The document includes guidance for accessing slides and captions for the presentation, how to engage during the Q&A session, and instructions for downloading references, further seminars, and claiming continuing education credits. Additionally, it highlights upcoming opportunities, such as a webinar on shared decision-making, suggesting a continuing commitment to advancing person-centered care in psychiatric settings.

Keywords

American Psychiatric Association

webinar

mental health education

continuing education credits

Peer Advisor Program

psychiatric trainees

recovery-oriented care

trauma-informed care

shared decision-making

person-centered care