In order to assist efforts to eliminate the 17-year science-to-service gap, CRI has been collecting presentations and handouts from CRI and Centerstone trainings and creating summaries of evidence-based practices for the most common mental health challenges experienced by individuals served by community mental health centers. These summaries present research findings on the efficacy and side effects of various treatments. This information is not meant to be used to replace consultation with a physician or a mental health professional. As new study results come out almost daily regarding treatments for mental health and substance abuse conditions, these summaries will quickly become out of date. It is the intention of CRI staff to update the summaries annually. While each these materials have been reviewed by PhD- and MD- level researchers and practitioners, they are subject to change.
Materials from Trainings
- Smoking and Mental Health
- Behavioral Activation
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
- Assessment Tools for Substance Abuse
- Motivational Interviewing for Substance Abuse
- Pharmacological Treatments for Depression
- Latest Schizophrenia Research
Smoking and Mental Health: If you have a client that smokes, this easy to read one-page handout outlines some of the implications of smoking for individuals with behavioral health needs — from needing different medication doses and how to prevent the early deaths that many clients who smoke face. It was condensed from several lectures that Dr. Douglas Ziedonis, an international expert in smoking and mental illness and advisor to the U.S. government, gave while at the Centerstone Research Institute in December of 2008.
Behavioral Activation for Depression: Behavioral Activation is an evidence-based practice for depression that has been shown to be helpful even for individuals with treatment-resistant depression. Dr. Steven Hollon, one of the nation’s foremost psychological researchers, presented on Behavioral Activation at Transforming Research Into Practice in May of 2009. The whole workshop is available at Essential Learning.
Handouts from Dr. Hollon related to Behavioral Activation:
- Presentation on Behavioral Activation. This presentation by Christopher Martell, Ph.D., ABPP and Sona Dimidjian, Ph.D. reviews some of the research behind Behavioral Activation for depression and some information for clinicians interested in using Behavioral Activation to help consumers with depression. (due to the large size of this file, please contact us for a copy of this presentation)
- Ruminating Thought Worksheet. This worksheet is for therapists to use with individuals with depression or anxiety with ruminating (repeating and unhelpful) thoughts.
- Weekly Activity Schedule. This worksheet helps individuals look at their activities for the week and see what they have been doing that is pleasurable (is fun, makes them happy) and or has helped them get a sense of mastery (a sense of accomplishment, completion, the feeling you get when you’ve finished something you’re good at). This worksheet is used for both cognitive behavioral therapy and behavioral activation – both evidence based treatments for depression and anxiety.
- Fear Form. This form is for clients whose fears contribute to anxiety, panic, or depression.
- Relapse Prevention Plan. This form is to create with clients who are nearing the end of therapy so that they can hold on to their recovery and take charge of their own mental health care.
- Behavioral Activation Chart. This chart logs a person’s mood through the day and week to help pinpoint what are more sensitive times in a person’s week – and what activities are connected to feeling better or worse.
- ACTION plan for Behavioral Activation. Using the acronym ACTION, this one-page plan helps a person with depression work out their own plan of how to respond when depressive feelings are coming.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): CBT is one of the most researched evidence based practices for anxiety, depression, panic disorder, and other conditions. Both Dr. Steven Hollon and Dr. Donald Meichenbaum, both experienced CBT practitioners, researchers, and trainers, have conducted trainings with Centerstone Research Institute and Centerstone to develop skills in 2009. Here are some materials from their trainings.
- CBT Presentation. Created by Dr. Steven Hollon with Vanderbilt University. (due to the large size of this file, please contact us for a copy of this presentation)
- Thought Record Form. This form is for use with CBT.
Assessment Tools for Substance Abuse: These tools are helpful to identify substance abuse and have high validity.
Motivational Interviewing for Substance Abuse
- Presentation on Motivational Interviewing. Dr. Lyle Cooper with the University of Tennessee presented this workshop as part of the CRI Transforming Research Into Practice event in May of 2009.
- The 12 Steps of Communication_12steps
- 8 Stages of Learning Motivational Interviewing
- Decisional Balance Inventory
Pharmacological Treatment for Depression: Dr. Richard Shelton presented a workshop on pharmacological treatments for depression. His landmark research looks at how gender and age affects the efficacy of different medications for depression and how taking these variables into account can lead to greater recovery rates. Through combining pharmacological treatments with CBT, Dr. Shelton has been getting long-term recovery rates of up to 88%.
- Atypical Antipsychotic Drugs: ‘A Spurious Advance’ or the Deserved First Line Treatment? Presentation by Dr. Herbert Meltzer.
- Unmet Treatment Needs (due to the large size of this file, please contact us for a copy of this presentation)
- Negative Symptoms in Schizophrenia (due to the large size of this file, please contact us for a copy of this presentation)