CE Webinar: Using the Mental Health System Effectively by Ann Moody-Lewis, PhD.

Navigating through a system that is broken takes ingenuity, insight and information. The mental health system must address the complex personal issues that develop with individuals, families, and groups.

Persons who need mental health are often unaware of how to get their needs satisfied. From psychiatry to psychotherapy there is a broad spectrum of possibilities. How do they work together? How do you differentiate what services are needed and how can you can assist clients in their search for peace will be the essence of this discussion.

Program objectives:

Those who attend this webinar will be able to:

• Have insight into the complexities of the mental health system and how to better navigate it
• Learn who part of the mental health team
• How to differentiate what serves to meet the needs of patients/families

Ann Lewis, PhD

Dr. Moody-Lewis is a dynamic mental health counselor, educator, facilitator, and author with thirty-one years of successful experience developing psychological programs, training professionals and clinical expertise. Known lecturer who has received media recognition for clear and innovative thought. Effective communicator with strong skills in relationship development, gender education, conflict resolution and group processing. Possesses an enthusiastic and creative spirit that is committed to empowering others.

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Selfhelp resources.

Designing Your Practice: The Healthcare Advocate's Role in Advance Care Planning by Jane Markley, RN, FACHE

This program is designed for professional healthcare advocates to help them incorporate advance care planning into their practice model for the benefit of their clients, their business and the community.  It can be tailored for any group of healthcare professionals who wish to learn how to include advance care planning in their practice.
Objectives:

1. Explain the advance care planning process
2. Identify the benefits of advance care planning for healthcare advocates
3. Identify why advance care planning is critically important to small businesses

M. Jane Markley, RN, FACHE

President, M Jane Markley Consulting, LLC

Jane Markley is a consultant and healthcare ethics advisor with 35+ years’ experience in healthcare. President of M Jane Markley Consulting, LLC, she works with individuals, families, organizations, ethics committees, and healthcare systems to help them understand the importance of advance care planning (ACP) for themselves, their loved ones and their members. A retired Navy Nurse, she is board-certified in healthcare management, trains healthcare advocates; speaks nationally and internationally in ACP; works with individuals and their families to complete their advance directives; facilitates ethics training for medical students as an Assistant Professor at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences Bethesda, MD, and serves on the Maryland State Advisory Council on Quality Care at the End of Life.

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