The Power to Help & the Power to Hurt: How Stigma Affects Our Lives Every Day & How Clinicians Can Help

Please join us on Wednesday, November 16, 2022 from 1:00-2:30 pm, for our Statewide Grand Rounds The Power to Help and The Power to Hurt: How Stigma Affects Our Lives Every Day and How Clinicians Can Help, with Philip Yanos, PhD, Professor of Psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice along with Dan Berstein, Yumiko Ikuta, and Omar James.

Participants can register for the program at: https://meetny.webex.com/meetny/onstage/g.php?MTID=ec2c75df136bb5247d495ff7c5f011bdc

Participants are required to be present for the entire class, and may not attend late, or leave early. Certificates will only be issued to those participants who are logged in through WebEx and who are present for the entire program as no partial credit hours will be given. Certificates will not be issued to attendees who use the “call in only” option.

2022 STATEWIDE GRAND ROUNDS

Wednesday, November 16, 2022

1:00pm - 2:30 pm

The Power to Help & the Power to Hurt: How Stigma Affects Our Lives Every Day & How Clinicians Can Help

Philip Yanos, PhD

Professor of Psychology, John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Dan Berstein, MHS

Yumiko Ikuta, MBA

Omar James

Host: Jay Carruthers, MD

Medical Director, Bureau of Psychiatric Services, NYS OMH

At the conclusion of this program, participants should be able to do the following:

1. Identify at least 2 ways in which stigma is behaviorally expressed.

2. Identify at least 2 harmful effects of stigma on people with mental illness.

3. Identify at least 3 ways in which professionals can act to reduce the detrimental effects of stigma.

CME ACCREDITATION/AMA CATEGORY 1 CREDIT

The New York State Office of Mental Health’s Bureau of Psychiatric Services & Research Institute Support is accredited by the Medical Society of the State of New York to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The Bureau of Psychiatric Services & Research Institute Support designates this internet live activity for a maximum of 1.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)ä.   Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.