05/26/2009 pm

Today was stay at Casa Cares and learn day. Our first speaker was Dr. Cicogni, an Italian psychiatrist who spoke on the mental health system in Italy. Italy & US seem (to me, at least) to be polar opposites in their approach to mental illness. Dr. Cicogni had a powerpoint, which he read to us... I would love to take his numbers (stats) and compare them to US stats... just to see which system is most effective; knowing the Mark Twain quote about statisticians...
Second presentation: right after lunch, Dr. Tyson presented on cinematherapy. He began by giving us this disclaimer: "Cinematherapy is not a type of therapy; rather, it is a technique to be used within any therapy session." That said, we broke into 5 groups, each group taking one movie clip, and answered 3 questions: 1) Whate age group? 2) What is focus topic? 3) ID 3 "kickoff" questions. The presentation was active and involved, and fun! Dr. Tyson has told me it would be too much in a regular (fall/spring) session, but maybe would work in May miniterm or summer a or b session...it would be most efficacious if he could get cinematherapy as a miniterm elective... it always helps to learn new techniques!
Dr. McCollum followed with advocacy counseling; she has a 4-step model and has been the ACA pres. of the Justice division...
If I can, I will try to link the PPTs to the blog...