Training Calendar
This training calendar is designed to be a statewide resource about the latest training opportunities in mental health and substance abuse recovery across Washington State. Most of these trainings are organized by outside organizations, so make sure to scroll down on the page of the training you’re interested in if you have questions or need to contact someone about the training. We invite you to learn about upcoming events and/or request that your training event be added to the calendar!
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Aging For Life: Geriatric Mental Health Classes
July 11, 2018 @ 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
$100Conducting Mental Health and Functional Health Assessments with Older Adults
Presenters: Terri Haaga, LICSW, GMHS Aging for Life; Linda Brabant, OTR, Evergreen Home Health
This class will provide an overview of comprehensive geriatric mental health and functional assessments and how to conduct them. We will overview elders and mental health to include discussion of current statistics and prevalence of mental health disorders specific to older adults. Key mental health issues like depression, anxiety, psychosis and late onset schizophrenia will be studied. We will also include a short
discussion on specific mood testing tools for elders. We will discuss neurocognitive disorders and how its presence changes everything. We will talk about cognitive impairment, its impact on decision-making capacity and the concept of safety versus autonomy for practitioners to consider.
Posting a training event
We encourage providers, state agencies, and consumer advocacy organizations to send us your training opportunities. To request that your training event be added to the calendar, please contact Alison Avery at aavery@thewashingtoncouncil.org and include the following information:
- Date
- Title
- Location
- Brief summary
- Contact information
- Copy of the flier or registration brochure