presented by Dr. Britton Arey

When: July 21, 2017

Check-in: Begins at 11 am

Luncheon: 11:00 to 1:30

Location: Maggiano's Little Italy, 3333 Bristol Street, Costa Mesa, CA

We will discuss the critical importance of therapists and psychiatrists communicating with one another about patients they share -- to avoid fragmentation of care as well as to provide a unified framework for recovery to patients. We will also brainstorm ways to improve communication and collaboration in our field, as well as across disciplines, given the emerging literature about the mind-body connection, and the importance of putting together a cohesive "treatment team" for each patient. While we know time is a precious resource for every clinician, making communication and collaboration part of our responsibility as providers is critical for the health and well-being of the patients entrusted to our care. Together, we can work to find ways to overcome obstacles and barriers to communication that can help our patients move forward more cohesively.

Learning Objectives:

1. To understand and appreciate why communication and collaboration are so important within the mental health field

2. To appreciate the importance of communication and collaboration with patient's other health care practitioners (anyone part of the patients "treatment team")

3. To identify all participants in a patient's "treatment team" that need to be included in communication and collaboration (e.g. Family members, friends, educators, etc)

4. To appreciate the importance of collaboration and integration of care, especially in the child and adolescent population

5. For attendees to name at least 3 ways of overcoming barriers to establishing more communication and collaboration in their own practices, and discuss ways they intend to implement communication and collaboration as both a priority, as well as part of their responsibility as a mental health care provider

OC-CAMFT Members - $32  

OC CAMFT Guests - $37 

Deadline to pre-register is July 19, 2017! 

Walk-ins - $45

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• Course meets the qualifications for 1 hour of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

• Orange County Chapter of CAMFT is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #59405) to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and LEPs.  Orange County Chapter of CAMFT maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.

Dr Britton Ashley Arey, MD,  MBA is an adult psychiatrist and psychotherapists who graduated from the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute, and has been in private practice for 10 years. She is the founder and CEO of a multidisciplinary group practice, South Coast Psychiatry, which is dedicated to improving the quality of outpatient mental health care in our community (through improving communication and collaboration, as well as decreasing fragmentation of care), as well as increasing education and awareness about mental health conditions and helping to decrease stigma and stereotype surrounding mental illness. For more information about Dr Arey, her multidisciplinary practice, South Coast Psychiatry, or their collaborative, concierge approach to patient care, please visit: www.SouthCoastPsychiatry.com.

For more information about the educational component of Dr Arey's practice, and her continued efforts to increase accurate information and awareness about mental health and decrease stigma surrounding mental illness, please visit www.Facebook.com/SouthCoastPsychiatry.

Dr Arey is also the mother of two young kids (ages 5 and 7), and has recently expanded her multidisciplinary practice to include the treatment of children and adolescents, for whom accurate diagnosis, as well as close collaboration and integration of care is critical.