Category: Merge Resource

An overview of how to define diversity and intersectionality. This webinar covers the importance of learning and understanding how culture should inform practice.

This webinar gives an overview of neurodiversity, including the medical v. social models of neurodiversity. For mental health care providers, it provides practical tips and skills for creating a more inclusive experience.

Mental Health Texas provides learning and treatment opportunities for people with mental health conditions and those who support them.

The Link Center works to improve supports available to children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD), brain injuries, and other cognitive disabilities with co-occurring mental health conditions. The Link Center provides training and technical assistance and advances systems change that will increase access to effective services and supports for people with co-occurring conditions.

Siguiendo este módulo, los participantes podrán: Describe las definiciones de discapacidad, Hablar sobre la historia de la discapacidad y el movimiento por los derechos de las personas con discapacidad, Reconocer los estereotipos comunes y las barreras sociales, Identificar los diferentes usos del lenguaje en relación con las personas con discapacidad, Comprender la etiqueta general relacionada…

Learn about the diagnosis for psychotic disorders in people with IDD, including descriptions of common presentations, discussion of treatment, and medication monitoring.

Learn how mood disorders manifest in people with ID, including diagnostic and treatment challenges, and methods of overcoming them.

Identify common behavior in people with mental health conditions and ID and learn about de-escalation strategies.

Learn how anxiety manifests in people with ID compared to the general population.