Educating Clients With Serious Mental Illness and Their Care Partners

Description

*This webinar is scheduled for 6:00 PM EDT / 3:00 PM PDT (Adjust for your time zone)

Occupational therapy practitioners are, at their core, educators, yet few are trained in how to teach effectively, especially when working with clients living with serious mental illness whose literacy, cognition, and symptoms may fluctuate. Failure to provide “right-fit” education contributes to missed appointments, medication mismanagement, and disengagement from care. This course grounds client and care partner education in evidence-based frameworks, including Universal Design for Learning, Bloom's Taxonomy, and adult learning theory, and translates them into practical strategies such as the teach-back method, motivational interviewing, and mixed-media instruction. Learners will gain emerging skills in understanding literacy, including distinguishing between health and functional literacy, assessing a client's current understanding and readiness, and tailoring education to individual barriers and care partner needs across psychiatric rehabilitation settings. Occupational therapists and certified OT assistants working in mental health will be able to design accessible, individualized education that supports self-management, recovery, and meaningful community participation for adults with serious mental illness.

Instructor

Learning Objectives

1. Identify evidence-based teaching and learning frameworks applicable to client and care partner education in mental health settings
2. Classify principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) that optimize occupational therapy educational delivery for individuals living with serious mental illness (SMI)
3. Differentiate between functional and health literacy considerations when delivering tailored education to clients with SMI and their support systems
4. Predict relevant educational topics and communication strategies that address individual client barriers and care partner needs in psychiatric rehabilitation

Agenda

All times in Eastern Time.

6:00pm–6:20pm

Best Practices in Teaching and Learning

6:20pm–6:34pm

Functional and Health Literacy

6:34pm–6:52pm

Educating About Mental Health

6:52pm–7:00pm

Break

7:00pm–7:15pm

Question and Answer Session

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