Video Recording

A video recording of this webinar is available for you to watch.

Gambling in the Workplace: Anything but a Safe Bet

Join us for a free webinar sponsored by the University of Maryland Department of Psychiatry FPI EAP Programs.

Thursday, March 14, 2024
2:00–3:00 pm

Join us for a better understanding of how problems related to gambling can show up in the workplace. Individuals experiencing gambling-related harm may become preoccupied with gambling so that their workday is spent either in the act of gambling, planning their next opportunity to gamble, or strategizing ways to obtain money for gambling. The cost of this hidden addiction affects employers, loved ones, and even the healthcare system.

Webinar Objectives

By participating you will:

• Increase awareness of gambling disorder in Maryland and its relationship to workplace wellness
• Recognize the signs and symptoms of someone at risk of a gambling disorder, and know how to incorporate evidenced-based screening into your practice.
• Learn about the resources available to assist individuals and loved ones affected by gambling harms.

Presenter: Kristen Beall, LCSW-C, LCSW-C, ICGC-I, CAC-AD

Kristen offers clinical consultation to healthcare providers so they can integrate therapeutic gambling conversations into their current treatment practice. As the Clinical Manager at the Maryland Center of Excellence on Problem Gambling, Kristen supports the Certified Peer Recovery Specialists in their work with persons that are impacted by harms related to gambling and provides clinical training to providers throughout Maryland.

Kristen has a passion for working with persons affected by gambling related harms and providing education to other health professionals to increase awareness of this often, hidden addiction.

Download Flyer

Employee Assistance Program

Confidential counseling by phone or secure telehealth. This free referral service is available to all employees and their family members.

419 W. Redwood St., Suite 560 Baltimore, MD 21201
Call 667-214-1555 or email: amjohnso@som.umaryland.edu to schedule an appointment.

Video Recording

A video recording of this webinar is available for you to watch.

Mental Health and Well-Being in the Age of COVID: Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Implications and Practices

Join us for a free webinar sponsored by the University of Maryland Department of Psychiatry FPI EAP Programs. The webinar includes 1 CEU for Social Workers and Counselors.

Friday, July 22, 2022
10–11 am

Please join us to engage in a discussion for better understanding how issues related to equity, diversity, and inclusion can impact mental health treatment for marginalized populations and how we can each effect opportunities for access to appropriate and meaningful care.

This webinar will provide tools to:

• Identify principles and practices of equity, diversity, and inclusion in relation to mental health
• Understand access/obstacles/underlying implications to mental health services within minority populations
• Learn how COVID has disproportionately impacted under-represented racial and ethnic groups within higher education
• Improve mental health opportunity and outcome for marginalized populations
• Provide effective, best practices and strategies for inclusion

Presenter: Diane Forbes Berthoud, PhD, MA

Diane Forbes Berthoud, PhD, MA, is the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) first chief Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) officer and vice president, having assumed the role July 1, 2021. Reporting to UMB president, Dr. Jarrell, she leads the University’s EDI commitment to accelerate institutional change. She is tasked with design and operation of a transparent accountability framework to measure and evaluate the impact and effectiveness of UMB’s EDI initiatives at every level of the institution. Dr. Forbes Berthoud earned her PhD and MA degrees at Howard University and previously led transformational equity, diversity, and inclusion initiatives at the University of California, San Diego.

Download Flyer

Employee Assistance Program

Confidential counseling by phone or secure telehealth. This free referral service is available to all employees and their family members.
419 W. Redwood St., Suite 560 Baltimore, MD 21201
Call 667-214-1555 or email: amjohnso@som.umaryland.edu to schedule an appointment.

July is national Minority Mental Health Awareness Month, use this link for additional resources: https://minorityhealth.hhs.gov/minority-mental-health/

Video Recording

A video recording of this webinar is available for you to watch.

Join us for a free webinar sponsored by the University of Maryland Department of Psychiatry FPI EAP Programs. The webinar includes 1 CEU for Social Workers and Counselors.

Tuesday May 10, 2022
2am–3pm

2021 US Overdose Deaths

• over 100,000 deaths
• 60% attributed to Fentanyl

Start of the Opioid Epidemic

In 2000 pharmaceutical companies began heavily marketing new opioid formulations as safe, and the FDA expanded indications from “acute only” to “safe for acute and chronic pain.” Over the next 10 years, prescriptions, opioid deaths and people entering treatment quadrupled.

This webinar will provide tools to:

• Identify the three phases of the current opioid epidemic
• Become aware of forms of fentanyl—fake pills; fentanyl powder; additives to cocaine, meth, ecstasy (MDMA) and heroin and their consequences
• Learn about emerging drug trends—Adderall laced with meth and synthetic nicotine vaping
• Institute effective countermeasures to prevent opioid morbidity and mortality

Fentanyl is now routinely found as an unexpected contaminant, increasingly present in “fake” pain and sedative pills and can be lethal at very low dosages. Overdose deaths in ages 10–19 are rising faster than in any other age group. Even though most drug use rates among adolescents have been trending downward over the past 10 years, emotional distress rates and suicides have been rising, making this a most vulnerable population.

Join us to become educated about current drug trends and how to provide effective self-care and stress control strategies to protect adults and the vulnerable 10–19-year-old population.

Presenter: David R. McDuff, MD

Dr. McDuff is an addiction and sports psychiatrist and a retired Army Colonel. He is a UMSOM Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and the founding Director of its Division of Addiction Research and Treatment and Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship Program. He is the author of Sports Psychiatry: Strategies for Life Balance & Peak Performance and a member of the International Olympic Committee’s Mental Health Working Group for Elite Athletes. He was recently appointed to the Advisory Council of the National Fentanyl Awareness Day. fentanylawarenessday.org

Download Flyer

Employee Assistance Program

Confidential counseling by phone or secure telehealth. This free referral service is available to all employees and their family members.
419 W. Redwood St., Suite 560 Baltimore, MD 21201
Call 667-214-1555 or email: amjohnso@som.umaryland.edu to schedule an appointment.

Video Recording

A video recording of this webinar is available for you to watch.

Successful Dialogue on Uncomfortable Topics: Sex, Politics, Race and Religion

Join us for a free webinar sponsored by the University of Maryland Department of Psychiatry FPI EAP Programs. The webinar includes 2 CEUs for Social Workers and Counselors.

Friday, March 25, 2022
10am–12pm

Appreciating Unconscious Influences to Foster Better Personal and Clinical Dialogue

This webinar will provide tools to:

• Identify conscious and unconscious responses in professional, client and family interaction
• Become aware of potential triggering topics and understand power source of subject
• Create strategies to effectively guide difficult conversation by depersonalizing responses and reframing content

Healthcare and Social work require navigating challenging conversational topics. Using self-awareness and compassion to understand what makes topics or conversations difficult, one is able to improve effective communication and dialogue even on particularly challenging subjects.

That which is difficult may also be what is essential in fostering good mental and physical health. Unfortunately, our emotions or history can get in the way of successfully and objectively addressing challenging topics, both from the perspective of the treating professional as well as the personal perspective of a consumer or colleague. This webinar is designed to help participants consider factors in their own lives that may hinder objectivity or to identify them in the people with whom we communicate every day in order to successfully navigate or reframe any discussion.

Presenter: Rachael Wallace, LCSW-C

Rachael is a psychotherapist and a Clinical Director of MGFP, a group of mental health professionals dedicated to supporting faculty, staff, students, residents and family members of the UMB and UMMC campus community. She has a particular interest in the integration of multiple paradigms to create individual pathways for insight, self-awareness, healing and navigation of personal and professional relationships or challenges. Rachael has an extensive history of clinical workshop presentations on the art of psychotherapy, ethics and self-awareness for clinicians. She has been affiliated with the UNSOM Department of Psychiatry for almost two decades and is the Chairperson of NASW-MD’s Behavioral Health Committee.

Download Flyer