Improving Outcomes for Psychosis: Psychiatric Survivor and Critical Psychiatry Perspectives

Dina Tyler
Private Practice Family Counselor and Non-Profit Training Consultant

2015 Peer Specialist of the Year • National Council for Behavioral Health

Co-Director • Bay Area Mandalda Project

Co-Founder • Bay Area Hearing Voices

Former Director, Peer and Family Support Services • PREP and BEAM Early Psychosis and Early Bipolar Programs

Learning objectives:
Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:

• Identify the main orientation of the psychiatric survivor and critical psychiatry movements
• Assess the psychiatric survivor and critical psychiatry movements for further learning and active collaboration with like-minded colleagues
• Understand one or more psychiatric survivor and critical psychiatry movement approaches to clinical tropes that confound treatment innovation, such as medication withdrawal effects, lack of insight, or suicide assessment

----------

Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Grand Rounds presentations are for educational purposes and intended only for behavioral/mental health professionals and clinical providers.

Continuing education (CE) credit is available for physicians, psychologists, nurses, and therapists who participate in this activity.