11:00am and 1:30pm Sessions
Helping youth with mental health and substance use needs, or co-occurring disorders (COD), can be overwhelming and a challenge for even the most advanced professionals. Substance use and mental health concerns are interrelated and can be best supported with an integrated approach.
This interactive session is designed for professionals with little or advanced COD experience and will include the prevalence, summary of current COD research, an overview of a combined intervention utilizing motivational interviewing, motivational enhancement therapy, and CBT. Participants will learn the framework of an integrated COD session structure, review session handouts, and deepen their ability to use the method to: a) integrate the youth’s substance use and mental health concerns, b) activate youth self-awareness, c) elicit change talk, and d) elicit commitment talk toward behavior change. Participants may share case examples of youth and discuss strategies to apply this approach in sessions.
About the Presenter
Win Turner, Ph.D, Owner & Psychologist
Center for Behavioral Health Integration
Dr. Turner is a clinical psychologist partner in The Center for Behavioral Health Integration and recently began serving as an expert MET/CBT trainer for Connecticut Outpatient Psychiatric Clinics for Children (OPCC). The Center for Behavioral Health Integration; a small collaborative of psychologists, social workers, helping evaluate and train in the behavioral health sciences. Dr. Turner’s primary focus is working as an evaluator, and clinical instructor in Motivational Interviewing, Cognitive Behavior Therapy, Effective Interventions for Youth & Families, SBIRT and more general Healthcare Integration processes. Dr. Turner is helping to evaluate achievements across a diverse landscape of healthcare projects providing guidance, CQI and recommendations to increase client/patient health as well as leveraging findings to promote future initiatives.
Dr. Turner is also helping as a part time senior content advisor on SAMHSA’s knowledge acquisition program (KAP). The program’s mission is to advance substance use treatment through the development of research to practice publications. In the past, Dr. Turner participated on expert panels for Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), the National Drug Court Institute (NDCI), Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT), the New York Times and Robert Wood Johnson (RWJ).
