Audience

Community mental health staff and other professionals, family members, peers and students who work with persons with schizophrenia.

The participant will:

• Understand the experience of hallucinations for a person with schizophrenia, including how serial hallucinations can reinforce a delusional system
• Gain an in-depth understanding of common features of psychosis, including belief in multiple realities, the possibility of miraculous events, and the drive of a magical quest that motivates many people in psychosis
• Identify common, actual events such as accurate intuitions, synchronicity, and projection of personal reality and identity into a symbol system that forms a tenacious delusional framework.
• Learn straight forward means to calm paranoia and emotions of a person in psychosis, including during crises
• Understand how to create the Understanding Mentor/Realist Team from counselors, family and friends to move the person towards acceptance of diagnosis and medication
• Receive the Schizophrenia: A Blueprint for Recovery handbook as an attachment sent to his or her email mailbox.

4 hours of continuing education credit have been approved by the Ohio Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage and Family Therapist Board for social workers and counselors.

Presented by Milt Greek, M. A.

Experienced volunteer, presenter and person with schizophrenia who has developed innovative insights into working with people in psychosis and post-psychosis. Profiled in the New YorkTimes.