Managing Clients with Behavioral Health Diagnosis

Date: July 31, 2024

Time: 7:00 AM - 8:30 AM

Location: Webinar

Registration: Online | Download Registration Form

DESCRIPTION
This webinar is designed to guide home health professionals in providing whole-person care, ensuring that behavioral health is addressed along with any physical health issues. When clinicians have the confidence to support a patient’s behavioral health status, it better prepares them to meet the needs of the patient.

Objectives: 

• Learn how to build trust using the right verbiage.
• Learn how to have judgement free conversations.
• Identify if your patient is in crisis mode and learn how to deescalate the situation.

Faculty: Sarah Boyd, Metro Mental Health Program Manager, Accra
Sarah’s education and training include a master’s degree from the University of Minnesota in Integrated Behavioral Health, and she is currently pursuing a post graduate licensure as a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor and Licensed Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselor. Sarah has clinical training in cognitive-behavioral therapy, dialectical behavioral therapy, and trauma informed approaches, as well as clinical experience in residential, crisis and outpatient service settings. With experience treating depression, anxiety, trauma, personality disorders, serious and persistent mental illness (SPMI), and co-occurring disorders. Sarah has been with Accra since 2019.

CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS
This program has been designed to meet the continuing education requirements for the Minnesota Board of Nursing, Speech-Language Pathologist and Audiologist Licensing and the Minnesota Board of Occupational Therapy for 1.5 contact hours.

A certificate of attendance will also be offered. We will be tracking attendance via zoom and will be auditing the total time spent watching the webinar(s). The webinar(s) must be watched in their entirety for CEUs, partial credit will not be awarded.  CEUs will not be available with the recording link.

2024 Change: CEUs will NOT be available with the recording link. A second opportunity to view the program has been scheduled for April 17 from 10-11:30 a.m at no extra charge to the participant.

WHAT'S A WEBINAR?
Enjoy the convenience and cost-efficiency of a webinar – watch the speaker’s slide presentation on the internet while listening by telephone or through your computer’s microphone and speakers (VoIP). The cost of this education is per person.

Prior to the webinar, a Zoom Webinar link will be e-mailed to you. You will need to click on this link to access the webinar, a dial-in number and an access code to listen in via telephone. You will also be sent any pertinent handouts if available and evaluation link.

WEBINAR RECORDING
This webinar will be recorded and made available to registrants. Those viewing the recording will not be eligible for CEU.

HANDOUTS
Handouts, evaluation forms, sign-in sheets and related materials will be sent to you shortly before the program to the email address you provide.

QUESTIONS?
Please contact Brandy Sweet at [email protected] with questions. 

Registration Fee: OAHC Members:  $157 per person; Non-Members:  $268 per person. 

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