Flo A. Stein, MPH
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    MH#1: Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT)
    Mental Health Bulletin #1 - Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) was developed to treat post-traumatic stress and related emotional and behavioral problems in children and adolescents.
    MH#2: Integrated Dual Disorders Treatment (IDDT)
    Mental Health Bulletin #2 - Integrated Dual Disorders Treatment (IDDT) requires that mental health and substance abuse treatment be delivered concurrently by a team of cross-trained clinicians within the same program.
    MH#3: Wellness Management and Recovery (WMR)
    Mental Health Bulletin #3 - The National Institute of Mental Health estimates that approximately 6% of the U.S. population has severe mental illness (SMI). For North Carolina, that percentage translates to approximately 200,000 people who suffer from severe psychiatric disorders.
    MH#4: Family Psychoeducation
    Mental Health Bulletin #4 - Persons with severe mental illness (SMI) often rely on family members for the majority of their needed support, and it is estimated that 35-60% of adults with SMI live with family members.
    SA#1: Contingency Management (CM)
    Substance Abuse Bulletin #1 - Contingency management (CM) is a motivational incentive intervention in which clients with substance use disorders receive small rewards for attending treatment, taking prescribed medication, providing negative urine samples, or complying with other defined treatment-related goals.
    SA#2: Strengthening Families Program (SFP)
    Substance Abuse Bulletin #2 - The Strengthening Families Program (SFP) is a parenting and family strengthening program for high risk families. It combines science-based (1) parenting-skill training, (2) child life-skill building, and (3) family lifeskill education into a program that improves the child's social/life skills and family functioning and protects the children from the long-term risks of drug abuse.
    SA#3: Seeking Safety
    Substance Abuse Bulletin #3 - Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is an anxiety disorder that may result from exposure and sometimes multiple exposures to highly traumatic events such as child abuse, accidents, violent personal assaults, military combat, or natural or human caused disasters.
    SA#4: Matrix Intensive Outpatient Treatment
    Substance Abuse Bulletin #4 - Matrix was developed in the 1980s by researchers at the University of Southern California and clinicians at the Matrix Institute on Addictions who found that clients addicted to stimulants were challenging the existing treatment system.
    SA#5: The Seven Challenges
    Substance Abuse Bulletin #5 - The Seven Challenges program was developed in the early 1990s by Dr. Robert Schwebel who recognized the lack of age appropriate substance abuse treatment models for adolescents.
    Developing Effective, High-Quality Community Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services: A Guide for Local Management Entities
    by Beth Melcher, Ph.D. This manual seeks to clarify and provide guidance to LMEs on how to successfully engage in the service development role. It promotes the implementation of evidence-based and best practice services and supports.
    National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices
    NREPP is a searchable database of interventions for the prevention and treatment of mental and substance use disorders. SAMHSA has developed this resource to help people, agencies, and organizations implement programs and practices in their communities.

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    Free Online Courses
    The Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) offers free training and resources on a variety of topics, including cognitive processing therapy and trauma-focused cognitive based therapy (TF-CBT) (http://tfcbt.musc.edu/). Developed by Patricia Resick, Ph.D., in 1991, Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) is a manualized cognitive based therapy offered in 12 sessions. Clients complete worksheets and homework assignments to gain further understanding and insight about past traumatic events. In addition to the MUSC website, more detail about CPT can be found here. Developed in the early 1980s by Cohen, Deblinger, and associates, TF-CBT is a psychosocial treatment model designed to treat posttraumatic stress and related emotional and behavioral problems in children and adolescents. The treatment model is designed to be delivered by trained therapists in 12-16 sessions of individual and parent-child therapy. Click here for more information.


    July 29th, 2009
    TRAUMA: An Evidence Based Perspective

    trauma_ncpicAugust 13, 2009
    9:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
    McKimmon Center, North Carolina State University

    Please join us on August 13th to hear nationally recognized speakers on trauma and its consequences and how a trauma informed system of care should be part of the public mental health, developmental disabilities and substance abuse services system in North Carolina.

    SAMHSA’s Call to Action for Developing Trauma-Informed Systems of Care
    Acting Deputy Administrator of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Kana Enomoto, M.A. will offer North Carolina a look at the state of the art on how trauma, whether a result of war, natural disaster, personal violence, or death of a loved one, should be addressed to ensure a healthier public.  Ms. Enomoto has been instrumental in the development of several notable federal policy programs, including The President’s New Freedom Commission on Mental Health Final Report, and the Surgeon General’s Supplemental Report on Mental Health: Culture, Race and Ethnicity.

    Trauma’s Impact on Biology and the Brain
    Kathleen T. Brady, M.D., Ph.D. is Director of the Clinical Neuroscience Division, Associate Dean of Clinical and Translational Research, and Director of the South Carolina Clinical and Translational Research Division at the Medical University of South Carolina.  Dr. Brady has over twenty years of research experience and her current focus is the link between stress and substance abuse disorders.  She was a primary contributor to the HBO Series on addiction that was aired in 2007.  In her presentation for the NCPIC, Dr. Brady will describe recent research about how our brains and bodies are changed by traumatic experiences.

    The Behavioral Implications of Grief and Loss for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities
    Ruth M. Hurst, Ph.D., BCBA, LP-HSPP is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of North Carolina Wilmington.  Dr. Hurst’s research interests lie in psychometrics and the clinical utility of self-report measures of autism and impulse control disorders and in behavior genetics and the validation of mouse genetic models of human psychopathology.  Last year, Dr. Hurst served as president of the NC Association for Behavior Analysis (NCABA) and remains on the NCABA executive council.

    To Attend:
    There is no cost to attend this event.  RSVPs are required and must be made by August 10th  by emailing Venus Malloy at venus.malloy@governorsinstitute.org.  For more information please telephone (919) 256-7415.
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    Funded wholly or in part by the federal Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Block Grant Fund (CFDA #93.959) as a project of the NC Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities & Substance Abuse Services.