Helping Clients with SMI Communicate Effectively with Primary Care Providers
Hours: 1.00
People with serious mental illness (SMI) experience higher rates of chronic disease and live 10 to 20 years less than the rest of the population. While part of this can be accounted for by the increased risk of suicide in people with SMI, a significant portion is due to illnesses that are preventable such as cardiovascular, metabolic, and respiratory diseases (de Mooji et al., 2019). These illnesses can be caused by a combination of genetics, psychiatric medication side effects, and potentially modifiable risk factors such as sedentary lifestyle, poor access to healthy food, poor eating habits, obesity, or smoking. Prevention and treatment of these medical conditions are necessary to increase the longevity and quality of life for people with SMI. This typically entails regular medical follow-up, as well as maintaining an ongoing and trusting relationship with medical providers so that they can get their medical and psychiatric needs met. Achieving this can be a challenge for people living with SMI. There are a variety of factors that impact the level of engagement and nature of the relationship a person with SMI has with a medical provider. Some of these factors can turn into barriers to receiving appropriate care. Behavioral health professionals can support clients with SMI around addressing these barriers, which can, in turn, improve the benefit they receive from medical and psychiatric care. The goal of this course is to provide addictions, behavioral health counseling, marriage and family therapy, nursing, psychology, and social work professionals working in health and human services settings with education around barriers that individuals with SMI experience when interacting with their medical providers and strategies to support more effective communication and increased benefit for the client from medical and psychiatric care.
People with serious mental illness (SMI) experience higher rates of chronic disease and live 10 to 20 years less than the rest of the population. While part of this can be accounted for by the increased risk of suicide in people with SMI, a significant portion is due to illnesses that are preventable such as cardiovascular, metabolic, and respiratory diseases (de Mooji et al., 2019). These illnesses can be caused by a combination of genetics, psychiatric medication side effects, and potentially modifiable risk factors such as sedentary lifestyle, poor access to healthy food, poor eating habits, obesity, or smoking. Prevention and treatment of these medical conditions are necessary to increase the longevity and quality of life for people with SMI. This typically entails regular medical follow-up, as well as maintaining an ongoing and trusting relationship with medical providers so that they can get their medical and psychiatric needs met. Achieving this can be a challenge for people living with SMI. There are a variety of factors that impact the level of engagement and nature of the relationship a person with SMI has with a medical provider. Some of these factors can turn into barriers to receiving appropriate care. Behavioral health professionals can support clients with SMI around addressing these barriers, which can, in turn, improve the benefit they receive from medical and psychiatric care. The goal of this course is to provide addictions, behavioral health counseling, marriage and family therapy, nursing, psychology, and social work professionals working in health and human services settings with education around barriers that individuals with SMI experience when interacting with their medical providers and strategies to support more effective communication and increased benefit for the client from medical and psychiatric care.
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Social workers will receive 1.00 continuing education hours for participating in this course. This activity is approved for 1.00 contact hours.
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Georgia Board of Nursing
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As a provider of online, asynchronous education, some courses offered by Relias, LLC are considered "self-study". The regulations limit self-study activities taken from a provider approved by the Education Department to no more than 12 hours in the 36-month registration period or one-third of the hours in a registration period other than 36 months.
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South Carolina Board of Nursing
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West Virginia Board of Registered Nursing
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New Mexico Board of Nursing
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Arkansas State Board of Nursing
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South Carolina Board of Social Work Examiners
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Kentucky Board of Licensed Professional Counselors
New York State Education Department, Office of the Professions, State Board of Psychology
Kentucky Board of Nursing
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Mississippi Board of Nursing
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North Dakota Board of Nursing
North Dakota Board of Nursing (CEBroker Provider #50-290)
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West Virginia Board of Social Work
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Illinois Alcohol and Drug Abuse Professional Certification Association
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Michigan Certification Board for Addiction Professionals
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Louisiana Addictive Disorder Regulatory Authority
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Recall common barriers that individuals with serious mental illness experience when communicating with their medical providers.
Indicate at least three strategies you can use to facilitate more effective communication between individuals with serious mental illness and their medical providers.
Outline:
Barriers Encountered By People With SMI
Section 3: Strategies to Address Barriers
Instructor: Jennifer Niles, LCSW, LCAS, CCS-I
Jennifer received her Bachelor’s degrees in Social Work and Criminal Justice from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and Master’s degree in Social Work with a Certificate in Substance Abuse Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has over 13 years of experience providing psychotherapy, counseling, and case management to a variety of populations. Her experiences and clinical interests are centered around addiction treatment, harm reduction, severe mental health conditions, psychosis, LGBTQ+ issues, gender diversity, integrated care, and clinical supervision.
The target audience for this course is: Alcohol and Drug Counselors; Intermediate level Social Workers; Marriage and Family Therapists; Nurses; Professional Counselors; Psychologists; in the following settings: Health and Human Services.
Asynchronous/Online Distance Learning; please see certificate details for specifics on delivery format.
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