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FOUR 1HR CME/CEU CONTINUING EDUCATION CONFERENCE

A Four-Part Series To Discuss Strategies to Stabilize and Improve Lingering Challenges of Chronic/Sub-Acute Mental Illness and Substance Use

Brought to you by Williams House at Lindner Center of HOPE.
Join Lindner Center of HOPE residential team members as they offer four 1-hour presentations for a free CEU for each presentation attended.
Four consecutive Tuesdays at Noon ET.
Virtual Webcast Event

Target Audience:
Healthcare and Mental Health Professionals

PRESENTERS AND TOPICS OF DISCUSSION

January 30, 2024
The Clinical Benefits of an Extended Stabilization Evaluation

Post presentation the audience will be able to:
1. Outline the clinical benefits of an extended stabilization evaluation in residential treatment.
2. Identify patients who will benefit from an extended stabilization evaluation in residential care.
3. Identify the elements of an extended stabilization evaluation.

Presenters: Michael Groat, PhD, Chief Clinical Officer and Dr. William Hartmann, MD, FAPA, Medical Director of Williams House
Click here to register  (RSVP by Friday, Jan. 26th, 2024)

February 6, 2024
Concurrent Treatment of Schizophrenia and Mood Disorders

Post presentation the audience will be able to:
1. Describe symptom profile, evaluation and assessment processes, and basis of how people admit to Lindner Center of HOPE’s Williams House.
2. Describe Williams House services and how to identify treatment goals and tailor your approach to each individual.
3. Describe course of care, next steps, and discharge planning.

Presenters: Megan Morrison, CNP, PMHNP-BC , Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner,, and Shelby Naghshineh, Residential Behavioral Health Care Coordinator
Click here to register  (RSVP by Friday, Feb. 2nd, 2024)

February 13, 2024

Schizo-Obsessive Disorder: Differential Diagnosis and Identifying Treatment Targets

Post presentation the audience will be able to:

1. Describe what stabilization and evaluation look like for an individual with obsessive-compulsive symptoms and concerns for psychosis.
2.Describe the evaluation process and diagnostic questions that are answered for these patients.
3.Describe the evaluation process, conceptualization, and treatment recommendations for a patient who presents with this disorder.

Presenters: Lindsey Collins Conover, PhD, Staff Psychologist, and Margot Brandi, MD, Medical Director of Sibcy House
Click here to register (RSVP by Friday, Feb. 9th, 2024)

February 20, 2024

Making the ‘Case’ for Stabilizing Evaluation and Restorative Treatment: Three Case Studies

Post presentation the audience will be able to:
1. Differentiate between inpatient care and stabilizing evaluation.
2. Recognize the benefits of integrated and interdisciplinary treatment with a seamless transition into further mental health services.
3. Identify a variety of specialized treatments offered within stabilizing evaluation.

Presenters: Michael Hill, Residential Behavioral Health Care Coordinator and Adan Liendo, LPCC-S, Residential Counselor
Click here to register  (RSVP by Friday, Feb. 16th, 2024)

ACCREDITATION STATEMENT

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing
Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of the University of Cincinnati and the Lindner Center of HOPE. The University of Cincinnati is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The University of Cincinnati designates this live activity for a maximum of 4 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credits commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. Each activity has been approved for 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™.

The Ohio Psychological Association under approval number P099-311067501 (2010-2012) approves the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Department of Psychiatry for 4 mandatory continuing education credits for Ohio Licensed Psychologists.

DISCLAIMER
The opinions expressed during the educational activity are those of the faculty and do not necessarily represent the views of the University of Cincinnati. The information is presented for the purpose of advancing the attendees’ professional development.

For questions Contact: Pricila Gran at 513-536-0318 or [email protected]

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Super Bowl Event, Feb. 11, 2024

Event Date: 02/11/24

 

Touchdown for HOPE is a classy and fun Super Bowl party with big screen televisions, plush seating, and signature Cincinnati food favorites and other upscale tailgate-style treats. All taking place in a sports fan’s dream location –overlooking the baseball field.  Tickets are $100 per guest, but a young professional’s ticket, for those 35 and under, is priced at $75. Reservations include free parking in Central Riverfront Garage and Cincinnati favorites such as LaRosa’s pizza, Skyline Chili, Montgomery Inn ribs and UDF ice cream food and much more.

Proceeds from this year’s event supports the Center’s Transforming HOPE Capital Campaign. Funding enables the Center to add treatment units, expand wellness facilities, and guarantee the recruitment and retention of high-quality clinicians.

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WHEN: Thursday, January 18, 2024
9am-11am and 3pm-5pm (Bring your resume)

WHERE: Lindner Center of HOPE – gymnasium
4075 Old Western Row Road
Mason, OH 45040

We are currently hiring various positions. Check our website for openings:

Careers

Visit our website to view more information on these positions:
https://lindnercenterofhope.org/careers/or contact HR at [email protected]

LCOH Job fair flyer Jan. 2024

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LCOH-UC study: Spinal cord stimulation a potential new way to treat depression

Lindner Center of HOPE, UC researcher publishes pilot study showing feasibility of method

A pilot clinical trial led by Lindner Center of HOPE Research Institute and University of Cincinnati researchers at the Lindner Center of HOPE found electrical stimulation of the spinal cord is feasible, well-tolerated, and shows therapeutic potential to treat depression.

The results of the trial were published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry on Dec. 20. View link at https://rdcu.be/dt41x

Research background

Principal investigator Francisco Romo-Nava, MD, PhD, said his research focuses on how brain-body communication is involved in psychiatric disorders.

“We think that the connection between the brain and the body is essential for psychiatric disorders,” said Romo-Nava, Associate Chief Research Officer for the Research Institute at the Lindner Center of HOPE, Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences at UC, and a UC Health physician scientist. “Many of the symptoms of mood disorders or eating disorders or anxiety disorders have to do with what one could interpret as dysregulation in this brain-body interaction.”

Romo-Nava said pathways of neurons located in the spinal cord convey information from the body to regions of the brain that are involved in the emotional experience we know as mood. When functioning properly, the brain uses this information to constantly make adjustments to help regulate a person’s mood.

While major depressive disorder can have many different causes, one contributor could be this pathway being overloaded with information.

“For example, chronic stress could lead to a hyperactive brain-body circuit that eventually burns the system out and prevents it from adjusting itself in an effective and optimal way,” Romo-Nava said.

The research team looked at different ways to modulate this interaction between the brain and body and developed a novel approach through non-invasive spinal cord stimulation. Romo-Nava received a patent for the device obtained a patent in 2020 for the stimulation method used after working with UC’s Office of Innovation.

The spinal cord stimulation is designed to decrease the flow of information in the brain-body circuit so that the brain is better able to readjust and regulate itself.

“Spinal cord stimulation is thought to help the brain modulate itself as it should by decreasing the noise or decreasing the hyperactive signaling that may be in place during a depressive syndrome,” Romo-Nava said.

The investigational device that was used is no larger than a shoe box, with the active electrode placed on the patient’s back and the return electrode placed on their right shoulder.

Trial details

With funding through a Brain & Behavior Research Foundation NARSAD Young Investigator Award, Romo-Nava designed the pilot study to test the feasibility and tolerability of spinal cord stimulation for patients with major depressive disorder.

A total of 20 patients were enrolled in the trial, with half randomized to receive the active version of the spinal cord stimulation and half receiving a different version of current that was not expected to have much of an effect.

Patients went to the Lindner Center of HOPE for three 20-minute sessions a week for eight weeks, for a total of 24 spinal stimulation sessions.

Trial results

Romo-Nava said like with most pilot studies, the primary focus of the study was the feasibility and safety of the intervention and how well patients tolerated the stimulation. The study was designed so that the dose of stimulation could be decreased if needed, but Romo-Nava said all patients tolerated the initially prescribed dose well.

“We used a current that is so small that it’s about 10 times smaller than the one known to induce tissue damage, so that’s also pretty encouraging because there’s a lot to explore in terms of what is the optimal dose and session frequency,” he said.

Side effects of the treatment were mild, including skin redness at the site of stimulation and brief non-painful itching or burning sensations that only lasted during the treatment sessions. The skin redness typically did not last more than 20 minutes after a session, Romo-Nava said.

A virtual reconstruction of how the current from the device moves through the body showed the current reaches spinal gray matter in the spinal cord, but does not reach the brain itself.

“That supports our hypothesis that it is the modulation of these pathways of information that then may induce an effect on the mood-relevant areas in the brain,” he said. “So it is not the current that reaches the brain, it is the change in the signal that then has an effect. This study is not sufficient to prove all of these components of the hypothesis, but we think it’s a great start.”

Patients that received the active stimulation had a greater decrease in the severity of their depressive symptoms compared to the control group, but Romo-Nava cautioned the study was limited by its small sample size. These results will need to be replicated in much larger studies to be confirmed.

“We need to be cautious when we interpret these results because of the pilot nature and the small sample size of the study,” he said. “While the primary outcome was positive and it shows therapeutic potential, we should acknowledge all the limitations of the study.”

Data showed participants’ resting blood pressure did not change over the course of the eight weeks, but their diastolic blood pressure (the bottom number of a blood pressure reading) decreased for a short time after each session in a cumulative way during the study.

“That may mean that we may be actually inducing a form of plastic effect on the brain-body interaction circuit that is also involved in autonomic functions like blood pressure and heart rate,” Romo-Nava said. “This is very preliminary, but it is also another signal that is in the right direction.”

Moving forward, Romo-Nava said the research team is seeking additional funding to put together an expanded trial and develop a portable version of the spinal cord stimulation device. If further studies confirm the stimulation is safe and effective to treat psychiatric disorders, future work will also be needed to find the optimal dose, frequency and conditions it can be used for.

 

Lindner Center of HOPE  provides excellent, patient-centered, scientifically advanced care for individuals suffering with mental illness. A state-of-the-science mental-health center and charter member of the National Network of Depression Centers, the center provides psychiatric hospitalization and partial hospitalization for adults, outpatient services for all ages, diagnostic and short-term residential services for adults, intensive outpatient program for substance abuse and co-occurring disorders for adults and research. The center is enhanced by its partnership with UC Health as its clinicians are ranked among the best providers locally, nationally and internationally. Together Lindner Center of HOPE and UC Health offer a true system of mental health care in the Greater Cincinnati area and across the country. The center is also affiliated with the University of Cincinnati (UC) College of Medicine.

 

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REGISTER NOW! 1 CME/CEU OFFERED

Please join us February 13, 2024
5:30 – 6:30 p.m. EST

For a free webcast

Treatment Options for OCD

 

PRESENTED BY:
Angela Couch, RN, MSN, PMHNP-BC, Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner

Participants in the webcast will be able to:

  1. Define OCD.
  2. Identify medication treatment options for OCD.
  3. Identify some non-medication treatment options for OCD.

Treatment Options for OCD Feb 2024 webcast flyer

Register here

Click here for the complete 2024 webcast schedule

Target Audience:
Psychiatrists, Primary Care Physicians, Non-psychiatric MDs, Nurse Practitioners, , Social Workers, Psychologists, Registered Nurses, and Mental Health Specialists and interested parties as well

ACCREDITATION STATEMENT
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing
Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of the University of Cincinnati and the Lindner Center of HOPE. The University of Cincinnati is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The University of Cincinnati designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credits
commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

The Ohio Psychological Association under approval number P099-311067501 (2010-2012) approves the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Department of Psychiatry for 1 mandatory continuing education credit for Ohio Licensed Psychologists.

The This activity has been approved for 1 clock hour of CEU by The State of Ohio Counselor, Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapist Board.

DISCLAIMER
The opinions expressed during the educational activity are those of the faculty and do not necessarily represent the views of the University of Cincinnati. The information is presented for the purpose of advancing the attendees’ professional development.

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Yesterday employees were treated to a delicious holiday lunch meal along with gathering gifts for the holiday outreach.

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The program, part of the Child/Family Center at Lindner Center of HOPE, will meet adolescent individual needs through day treatment.

Lindner Center of HOPE opened an Adolescent Partial Hospitalization program as part of its Child/Family Center on January 8, 2024.  . The center has dedicated space on its campus for this offering as a less intensive intervention than inpatient hospitalization, for stable adolescents struggling with mental health concerns.

Adolescence is a stage of development full of transitions and wayfinding. Adolescence is also one of the most common time frames for initial onset of mental health concerns. Given these factors, a teen may struggle to manage home, school, and social activities without additional therapeutic support. The Child/Family Center at Lindner Center of HOPE offers a Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP) for adolescents (who do not meet the criteria for more intensive intervention of inpatient hospitalization) to receive day treatment, while living out their learned skills in the evenings and weekends at home.

The program is designed to help meet the individual needs of each participant through:

  • Psychoeducation
  • Individualized treatment planning
  • Intentional goal setting
  • Evidence-based psychotherapeutic experiences in a group setting
  • Personalized consultative evaluations and intervention potential
  • A psychiatric evaluation with optional medication management
  • Educational support
  • Progress reports for families and referrers
  • Aftercare assistance

Appropriate patients for the Adolescent PHP will be 12 to 18 (if still in high school) years of age with primary mental health concerns. Co-occurring presentations will be reviewed for appropriate fit. The standard length of the program is 10 business days with possible extension determined by the team based on individual needs and goals. Program hours are from 8:30 am to 3:30 pm.

The entire treatment team will work with the adolescents and their families to provide tangible insights and skills to apply to daily life.

Coping skills can address:

  • A variety of mental health diagnoses
  • School concerns
  • Emotion regulation
  • Interpersonal interactions

For more information on the program contact:  513-536-0KID (0543).

Lindner Center of HOPE  provides excellent, patient-centered, scientifically advanced care for individuals suffering with mental illness. A state-of-the-science mental-health center and charter member of the National Network of Depression Centers, the center provides psychiatric hospitalization and partial hospitalization for adults, outpatient services for all ages, diagnostic and short-term residential services for adults, intensive outpatient program for substance abuse and co-occurring disorders for adults and research. The center is enhanced by its partnership with UC Health as its clinicians are ranked among the best providers locally, nationally and internationally. Together Lindner Center of HOPE and UC Health offer a true system of mental health care in the Greater Cincinnati area and across the country. The center is also affiliated with the University of Cincinnati (UC) College of Medicine.

 

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Congratulations! The readers of Mason + Deerfield Lifestyle have nominated Lindner Center of HOPE for the 2023 Readers’ Choice Awards in our Medical + Wellness categories (#8 on the ballot linked below). Voting will end at 10pm on December 14th (1 vote per email address).

Please vote here or scan QR code on attached flyer:  https://bit.ly/MDL-ReadersChoice2023

Nominated_FullPageFlyer_Readers Choice 2023

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Dec. 18, 2024 6p-7:30p EST Countryside YMCA – Lebanon or Virtual

Tom Parker, LISW, Director of External Relations and Valerie Martin, MDiv, Spiritual Care Coordinator

A Cool Yule – Practical and Faithful Ways to Have a More Peaceful Holiday Season

Participants will:

  • Address why the holidays can be so difficult and learn coping tools to
    • Handle grief that can be a guest during this time.
    • Manage difficult and complicated emotions.
    • Tailor expectations into practical and enjoyable possibilities.

Specifically, each of these areas will be wrapped with practical and faithful ways (and skills) to help foster and support important relationships during a busy and often stressful season.

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Nov 20, 2024 6p-7:30P EST Manor House or Virtual

Anna Guerdjikova, PhD, LISW, CCRC, Director of Administrative Services, Harold C. Schott Foundation Eating Disorders Program

The science of longevity update. A conversation on how to age gracefully and improve life quality over life quantity.

 Participants will:

  • Review current scientific advances in longevity.
  • Discuss the role of genetics and environment in aging as a modifiable process.
  • Explore advances in Medicine 2.0 and 3.0 and learn about biohacks for increasing healthspan and promoting longevity.

Click here for registration