Illness Management and Recovery: Personalized Skills and Strategies for Those with Mental Illness

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Wednesday, November 9 2011 3:00 PM Eastern, 2:00 PM Central
The Illness Management and Recovery Program (IMR) is a comprehensive, evidence-based program that helps people with serious mental illness identify their personal recovery goals and learn strategies and skills for managing their illness and achieving their goals. Intended for people with major mood disorders and schizophrenia spectrum, IMR has been developed through years of research and the consensus of leading experts in mental health care along with clients and family members. The third edition of IMR, published by Hazelden, represents an extension and major revision of earlier editions of the program, based on current research and feedback from clients and practitioners.* Join us for this informative webinar as IMR authors, Kim T. Mueser, Ph.D., and Susan Gingerich, MSW, from Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center discuss how IMR brings current research to practice.
Participants in this webinar will be able to:
  • Give an overview of the principles of IMR, including the central role of the stress-vulnerability model of mental illness
  • Describe how clients are assisted in setting and attaining personal recovery goals in the Illness Management and Recovery program
  • Describe the extensive enhancements to the third edition of IMR, including the handouts, practitioner guidelines and the implementation manual - all of which have made IMR significantly easier to implement for program administrators and practitioners.
  • Explore the new module on Healthy Lifestyles, which can improve health outcomes for people with SMI and connects lifestyle to personal goals
  • Find resources to help implement IMR, including training, discussion forums, newsletters and IMR updates
* The educational curriculum has been thoroughly updated and expanded; the handouts for each module have been modified to a session-by-session format to make them more user-friendly and easy to teach; and two new modules (Practical Facts about Schizoaffective Disorder and Healthy Lifestyles) have been added. The practitioner guidelines have also been organized into a session-by-session format and include suggestions for enhancing the learning of information and skills in each session, as well as tips for dealing with common problems. The Implementation Guide has been amplified and reorganized to increase attention to the knowledge and skills needed by an agency for implementing the program, as well as skills needed by IMR practitioners. Also, updated and new forms and materials are available to practitioners to print out on a CD-ROM.
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About the Speaker(s):

Susan Gingerich, MSW, is a consultant and trainer with an independent practice in Philadelphia. She received her MSW from Simmons School of Social Work and her BA in Psychology from Wellesley College. She has over 25 years of clinical experience working with people who have serious mental illness and their families. Her research interests focus on psychosocial treatments for mental illness, including Illness Management and Recovery (IMR), Social Skills Training (SST), Family Psychoeducation (FPE), and Recovery After an Initial Episode of Schizophrenia (RAISE). She has co-authored several books, articles, book chapters, and treatment manuals on these subjects.

Kim T. Mueser, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and a professor of Psychiatry and of Community and Family Medicine at the Dartmouth Medical School in Hanover, New Hampshire. He received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1984 and was on the faculty of the Psychiatry Department at the Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia until 1994. In 1994, Dr. Mueser moved to Dartmouth Medical School and joined the Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center. Dr. Mueser's clinical and research interests include integrated treatment for co-occurring psychiatric and substance use disorders, rehabilitation for persons with severe mental illnesses, and the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder. He has published several hundred journal articles and has coauthored ten books. In November, Kim will be Executive Director of the Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation and Professor of Occupational Therapy at Boston University.