Provider Education and the Caring Project MP3

Provider Education and the Caring Project: Mutually Beneficial While biomedicine has made significant mental health progress in recent years, there remains a need for attention toward the humanistic aspect of mental health care: the caring component. The panel will describe collaboration between NAMI and a psychiatric hospital using the NAMI Provider Training program. Learn about the training program and an unanticipated consequence of the collaboration: the mutual benefits experienced by presenters and the audience. Margaret Gallagher, Ph.D., R.N., Provider Education Coordinator, NAMI Greater Houston, Houston Brenda W. LaVar, Ph.D., Rights Protection Officer, Montgomery County Mental Health Treatment Facility/CCRS, Conroe, Texas Jane Mahoney, Ph.D., R.N., Director of Nursing Practice and Research, The Menninger Clinic, Houston Cynthia Mulder, L.C.S.W., Director of Education and Training and Senior Social Worker, The Menninger Clinic, Houston