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“You never forget that feeling when you are somebody,” shared an audience member, who also shared some background, while discussing supportive housing and watching Coco’s story. Amidst a discussion of supportive housing, we showed this video:   Sixty team members, spanning positions (COD, employment and peer specialists, QPs, nurses, psychiatrists,...

“You never forget that feeling when you are somebody,” shared an audience member, who also shared some background, while discussing supportive housing and watching Coco’s story. Amidst a discussion of supportive housing, we showed this video: Sixty team members, spanning positions (COD, employment and peer specialists, QPs, nurses, psychiatrists, therapists,...

Newer Ways of Seeing Recovery The Institute is so grateful to Sandhill’s MCO for encouraging their providers to develop deeper skills in Co-Occurring (Mental Health & Substance Use) treatment practices. Stacy Smith, LPC and MINT said, “The robust discussions around newer ways of seeing recovery is so pleasing. We met...

“The ACT Coalition has been invaluable to my work as an ACT Team Leader. As a new team leader, the ACT Coalition provided me with the knowledge and support that I needed to improve the performance of my team and the services that we provide. I am now in my...

“The use of the TMACT as a fidelity measuring tool for ACT has been truly transformative for our system. The tool itself is instructive, and gives both those administering the review, and those receiving the review, the opportunity to further their understanding of ACT principles. We have found the UNC...

“Dr. Moser and Stacy Smith provided a series of trainings for Virginia’s ACT teams in 2016. The team at the Institute for Best Practices has also provided team-level consultation and training to several teams since that time. We could not have been more pleased with the depth and breadth of...

Supporting Community Participation By way of invitation by Alliance Health, Mark Salzer, Ph.D. and Bryan McCormick, Ph.D. from the Temple University Collaborative on Community Inclusion, joined by our very own Lorna Moser, Ph.D., led a workshop with assertive community treatment (ACT) and transition management services (TMS) teams. Agency leadership and...

Individuals with schizophrenia (SZ) display cognitive deficits that have been identified as major determinants of poor functioning and disability, representing a serious public health concern and an important target for interventions. At present, available treatments offer only minimal to moderate benefits to ameliorate cognitive deficits. Thus, there remains an urgent...

Cognitive impairment in schizophrenia is a core feature of the disorder. Computerized cognitive training has shown promise in pilot studies. A 26-week randomized blinded placebo-controlled trial was conducted to investigate the effect of a novel computerized cognitive training program on cognitive and functional capacity outcomes…read more. Mahncke HW, Kim SJ,...

Individuals with schizophrenia are impaired in their ability to recognize emotions based on vocal cues and these impairments are associated with poor global outcome. Basic perceptual processes, such as auditory pitch processing, are impaired in schizophrenia and contribute to difficulty identifying emotions. However, previous work has focused on a relatively...

In comparison to batteries of standard neuropsychological tests, cognitive neuroscience tests may offer a more specific assessment of discrete neurobiological processes that may be aberrant in schizophrenia. The N-back and AX-Continuous Performance Task (AX-CPT) are two promising cognitive neuroscience tests designed to measure specific components of working memory and contextual...