This course provides practitioners with a review of evidence-based practices for supporting older adults with serious mental health conditions. The agenda includes the discussion of common challenges that occur while working with this population and strategies for interdisciplinary teams to address them.The intended audience for this training are psychologists, social workers, substance abuse counselors, mental health counselors, and other members of the workforce interested in this topic. This self-paced course has a $25 registration fee.

For providers working with older adults with serious mental health conditions (SMHC), it is extremely important to understand how the increase of aging Americans will impact the care provided for this population in long-term care settings. Dr. Steve Bartels provides an overview of mental health care needs of this group along with co-occurring conditions that lead to early mortality, increased costs, and heightened rates of institutional care. Dr. Bartels outlines evidence based practices show to support older adults with psychiatric disabilities to live independently and improve health self-management skills.

As a practitioner in a nursing facility, you may provide care for a resident with a co-occurring serious mental health condition and substance use disorder. This webinar describes these co-occurring disorders, explains their prevalence in nursing facilities, and educates on the three types of treatment for co-occurring disorders. Presenters also explain the five stages of change and how to provide a stage-based intervention to best support these residents.

This 2023 webinar provides nursing facility staff with an overview of the types of Bipolar Disorder, signs and symptoms of mania and depression, and both pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions for individuals with Bipolar Disorder. Presenters educate nursing facility operators on how to best prepare interdisciplinary teams to support individuals with Bipolar Disorder.

The goal of this webinar is to provide practitioners with an understanding of how Schizophrenia and Psychosis may present in a nursing home setting. Late-in-life onset, signs and symptoms, typically prescribed medications, non-pharmacological interventions, and other available supports are shared for members of an interdisciplinary team.

Transitions of care between acute care, nursing homes, and community settings can be difficult. This webinar shares challenges and supports for making discharges and these transitions as smooth as possible for older adults with serious mental health conditions. Communication between all members of the interprofessional team is vital for facilitating these transitions, and presenters discuss available tools and supports.

This training provides practitioners in nursing home settings an understanding of PTSD, it’s symptoms, triggers, and outlooks. Specifically, it provides a guide on how to best support nursing home residents with PTSD through environmental accommodations, minimizing triggers, and providing support.

This session provides an overview of serious mental health conditions that you may see in a nursing home setting. The presenters include warning signs to look for in residents that may indicate suicidal ideation, as well as strategies for suicide prevention. De-escalation techniques that are important for providers in nursing homes working with residents with psychiatric disabilities are also provided.

A large number of nursing home residents experience mental health challenges, and this training gives an introduction to psychiatric disabilities. Providing an overview of a five-step model of care, this training offers staff in nursing facilities with an outline on how to support residents with serious mental health conditions.

This webinar provides education for Information and Referral/Assistance professionals working with older adults with serious mental health conditions. When assisting through Eldercare Locator, it is important to understand screening for psychiatric diagnoses and appropriate care referrals for older adults experiencing a crisis.

Following the COVID-19 pandemic, it is vital to ensure that providers of older adults with serious mental health conditions are educated on trauma-informed digital communication and technologies that are available to support this population in their recovery process. This two-hour webinar discusses older adults’ attitudes and preferences toward technologies, barriers to technology use in aging services, emerging technologies, and information on training individuals to integrate technology into their recovery process. The presentation develops skills through role-play activities, providing resources, and education on theoretical models for providers to take with them into their interactions with older adults with psychiatric disabilities.

Being able to detect signs of crisis in older adults with behavioral health conditions is vital for providers for individuals in this population, especially with a shift towards telehealth following the COVID-19 pandemic. This two-hour webinar provides education on a crisis intervention model for older adults experiencing a serious mental health condition, as well as tips to provide support and recognize challenges for this group in a digital healthcare environment.

This webinar shares the story of the Atlanta Regional Commission’s Behavioral Health Coaching Service which supports older adults at the intersection of experiencing mental health conditions and eviction risk. If you work in the field of case management for individuals within this demographic, this webinar provides valuable information on affordable housing and the behavioral health coaching model.

Elderspeak, attitudes about aging and age bias, social and historical context, cohort effects, and cognitive slowing are important factors for individuals providing psychotherapy for older adults to be aware of. This fifty-minute, free webinar provides education for psychotherapists and other mental health professionals to ensure they are providing older adults they work with high-quality care.

Michelle Zechner provides an overview of healthy aging as it pertains to older adults with serious mental health conditions, and discusses how providers can maintain and improve quality of life for this population. The presentation educates providers on how to support healthy aging through system approaches, engaging in best practices, and specific practitioner strategies that can be implemented on an individual level.

Following the introduction segment, this second installment focuses on evidence based practice and important components of interventions for older adults with serious psychiatric disabilities. Dr. Michelle Zechner discusses the concept of healthy aging, and practices for empowering and developing hope for this population such as shared decision making. She also highlights self-management, integrated care, caregiver support, and peer program resources that practitioners can share with older adults with serious psychiatric disabilities and those caring for them.

This 1.5 hour webinar installment introduces goals, values, and guiding principles for practitioners working with older adults with serious psychiatric disabilities. An emphasis is placed on the idea of recovery, utilizing case studies to investigate challenges, supports, and tools for living beyond symptoms.

The goal of this presentation is to increase understanding of experiences of unhoused older adults with disabilities for programs and practitioners. With a focus on Social Security Administration benefits, these slides detail how to support older adults in these applications. Further, slides instruct stakeholders on characteristics and service needs of the population, disability and aging networks, and home and community based services.

The final webinar in the Supporting Recovery for People Aging with Serious Mental Health Conditions series highlight strengths and challenges for this population. Further, it identifies strategies for engagement, motivation, and resource development among older adults with serious psychiatric disabilities.

This one hour webinar provides continuing education credits for physicians, psychologists, nurses, and social workers while providing all practitioners working with older adults with serious psychiatric disabilities an overview of factors associated with aging in the context of serious psychiatric disabilities. The webinar covers shifts in demographics of older adults living with psychiatric disabilities, diversity among this population, challenges associated with aging as a part of this population, and strategies for providing care. The webinar is concluded by a question and answer session, and the site provides an ongoing interdisciplinary discussion board providing opportunity for follow up engagement.

This free one hour webinar provides an overview of the Psychosocial Interventions for Older Adults with Serious Mental Illness evidence based resource guide supported by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Steve Bartels highlights the evidence based practices, and more specifically how to select and implement them, for practitioners working with the growing population of older adults with serious psychiatric disabilities.

Cognitive Behavioral Social Skills Training (CBSST) is an evidence based tool practitioners working with older adults with schizophrenia may utilize to support overall functioning. This one hour free webinar discusses the cognitive skills, social skills, and problem solving skills central to this training.

When working with older adults it is important for practitioners to distinguish the sometimes overlapping symptomatic expressions of dementia and serious psychiatric disabilities. This hour and a half webinar highlights diagnoses, symptoms, risk factors, and care practices for practitioners working with older adults who may have a serious psychiatric disability, dementia, or both.

When working with older adults it is important for practitioners to distinguish the sometimes overlapping symptomatic expressions of dementia and serious psychiatric disabilities. This hour and a half webinar highlights diagnoses, symptoms, risk factors, and care practices for practitioners working with older adults who may have a serious psychiatric disability, dementia, or both.

This 1.5 hour webinar discusses the way that social roles develop as individuals age and life circumstances change. When working with older adults living with serious psychiatric disabilities it is important to understand how role loss and gain may impact mental health and quality of life, and how practitioners may support these individuals to reach desired social roles.