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Originally offered as:
IPA 2024 Fall Conference #9
1.5 Hours of Category I CE credit Friday, November 8th, 2024 1:00-2:30 am ET
Recovery-oriented Psychotherapy for Serious Mental Illness: Clinical Applications of Metacognitive Reflection and Insight Therapy
Recent research has suggested that recovery from serious mental illness (SMI) is a complex process that involves recapturing a coherent sense of self and personal agency. This poses important challenges to existing treatment models. While current evidence-based practices are often designed to target symptoms and specific skill deficits, they often are less equipped to address issues of subjectivity and self-experience. In this presentation, we will discuss Metacognitive Insight and Reflection Therapy (MERIT), a treatment approach that is explicitly concerned with self-experience in psychosis. This approach uses the term metacognition to describe those cognitive processes that underpin self-experience and posits that addressing metacognitive deficits will aid persons diagnosed with SMI in making sense of the challenges they face and deciding how to effectively manage them. This presentation will present a conceptualization of metacognition and its role in SMI and recovery. We will then present an overview of the MERIT practice framework, offering practical considerations for incorporating MERIT into existing clinical practices.
Learning Objectives:
By completing this program, participants will able to:
1. Summarize theory and practice components of MERIT.
2. Describe similarities and differences between their existing therapy approach and the integrative framework of MERIT.
3. Incorporate MERIT elements into their existing clinical practice.
Presenter bio: Jay Hamm, PsyD HSPP
Jay Hamm, PsyD is a clinical psychologist at Sandra Eskenazi Mental Health Center in Indianapolis, IN, where he provides psychotherapy, staff training, and clinical supervision for community mental health treatment teams. He is currently the vice-president of the MERIT Institute and has been active in the development and dissemination of MERIT since 2010. He has authored over 60 articles and several book chapters on the topics of psychosis, metacognition, recovery, psychotherapy, and clinical supervision.
Dr. Jay Hamm
Presenter bio: Bethany Leonhardt, PsyD, HSPP
Bethany L. Leonhardt, PsyD, HSPP, is a clinical psychologist with Prevention and Recovery Center (PARC) at Eskenazi Health, as well as an assistant professor of clinical psychology with Indiana University School of Medicine. She is current president of the MERIT Institute and has been involved in the development and dissemination of MERIT since 2011. She has been providing direct clinical care to individuals with psychosis for over 13 years, specializing in early psychosis since 2014. Her main research interests include metacognition in early psychosis, recovery, and developing and evaluating recovery-oriented psychotherapies. She has authored over 60 peer-reviewed articles and several book chapters about recovery, psychosis, and psychotherapy.
Dr. Bethany Leonhardt
Special Note to Conference Attendees
The Indiana Psychological Association (IPA) is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Indiana Psychological Association maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Indiana State Psychology Board and Indiana Behavioral Health Board:
IPA is an approved provider of Category I continuing education for psychologists.
IPA is an approved provider of Category I continuing education for LSW, LCSW, LMFT, LMHC, LMFTA, LCAC and LAC.
Licensees must judge the program’s relevance to their professional practice. Non-Indiana licensees are also advised to check with their state's licensing board to assure their state accepts continuing education programs approved by entities approved by the APA.
We ask that all participants watch the entire recorded presentation, and complete the post-program evaluation form and homestudy test at the conclusion of the program. Drs. Hamm & Leonhardt and IPA have not received any commercial support for this program or its contents and will not receive any commercial support prior to or during this program.
CE certificates will be distributed via email within two weeks after a passing test (75+%) is submitted.
