Topics Include:

-Safe, humane, life-enhancing methods of treating adults, children, families and couples in psychological distress without reliance on psychotropic drugs.

-Consumer-centered interventions that help people move towards full recovery.

-Restoring psychotherapy as a first-line intervention in behavioral health.

-What parents and families can do to help children without reliance on psychotropic drugs.

-Withdrawing from psychotropic drugs: Clinical indications, safety and supervision concerns.

-The impact of the pharmaceutical industry on evidence-based clinical mental health practice.

-Treating children and adults with integrative care.

Panel Presentations, Roundtable Discussions, Meet the Authors & More!

-Psychotherapist Panel: Experts Discuss How They Work, Followed By Breakout Sessions on Each Clinical Approach!

-Early Psychosis Intervention Panel: How Can We Best Help Those in Crisis?

-Psychiatric Survivors Panel: Consumers Relay Their Experiences in the Mental Health System. Panel members include Nancy Rubenstein Del Giudice.

-Evidence-Based Literature Panel: What Clinicians Should Know About the Scientific Literature.

-The Bipolar Child Panel: Analyzing an Epidemic.

Speakers include:

-Paula J. Caplan, Ph.D.

“When Johnny and Jane Came Marching Home: How All of Us Can Help Veterans”

-Nicholas Cummings, Ph.D

“Restoring Psychotherapy as a First-Line Intervention”

-Thomas Szasz, M.D.

“Varieties of Psychiatric Criticism”

-Robert Whitaker

“Psychiatry’s Response to Anatomy of an Epidemic: What the Emperor Says When He Has No Clothes”

-David Antonuccio, Ph.D.

“It May Be Time To Stop Calling Them ‘Antidepressants: Skills, Not Pills, for Depression’”

-Scott Shannon, M.D.

“The Ecology of the Child: A New View of Pediatric Mental Health”

-David Stein, Ph.D.

“A Unified Model for Matching Therapy with Etiology: Better Therapy Is the Most Effective Weapon Against Reliance on Drugs!

-Jacqueline Sparks, Ph.D.

“Listening to Clients, Not Disorders: A Revolution in Therapeutic Services”

-David Oaks

“Where’s Your Canoe? Uniting the Many Islands in Our Movement for Deep Change in Mental Health”

-David Cohen, Ph.D., LCSW

“The Ethics and Politics of ‘Neuroenhancement’”

Conference Contact Details:

DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Los Angeles – Westside
6161 West Centinela Avenue, Culver City, California, United States 90230-6306
Tel: 1-310-649-1776 Fax: 1-310-649-4411