Mental Health Association of Portland

Stephanie Coontz

The OHSU Department of Psychiatry would like to invite you to Psychiatry Grand Rounds.

We have a great line-up of presentations that we are looking forward to sharing with you!

Our first presentation will be held next Tuesday, September 11th from noon – 1pm in conference room 8B60/8th floor of the OHSU Hospital.

“For Better AND Worse: The Ongoing Revolution in Family Life”

Stephanie Coontz, M.A. – Professor of History and Family Studies, Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA, Director or Research and Public Education, Council on Contemporary Families

Coontz is the author of A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s (Basic Books, 2011) and the award-winning Marriage, A History: How Love Conquered Marriage (Viking Press, 2005).

She also wrote The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap (1992 and 2000, Basic Books), The Way We Really Are: Coming to Terms with America’s Changing Families (Basic Books, 1997), and The Social Origins of Private Life: A History of American Families.

She edited American Families: A Multicultural Reader (Routledge, 2008). Her writings have been translated into French, Arabic, Spanish, Russian, Czech, German, Norwegian, Turkish, Greek, Chinese, Ukrainian, and Japanese.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify the main changes in family relationships and structures over the past 30 years
• Analyze emerging patterns of sociological and psychological dynamics in couple relationships and parent-child relationships
• Distinguish between causes and correlations in evaluating the outcomes of these changes
• Gain understanding of the new challenges facing individuals and families

Target Audience – Psychiatrists, psychologists, psychiatry residents and fellows, medical students, social workers, masters in administration, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, nurses and pharmacists.

The Department of Psychiatry would like to invite you to grand rounds taking place this Tuesday, June 26th from Noon – 1pm in conference room 8B60/8th floor of the OHSU Hospital.

Understanding and Working Effectively with Transgender Patients
Sue Orchard, Psy.D. – Associate Director for the Center for Diversity and Multicultural Affairs/OHSU

At the end of this presentation, participants should be able to:

• Describe health disparities faced by transgender patients
• Describe coming out and transitioning process for transgender and gender variant individuals
• Analyze most recent Standards of Care (2011) for working with transgender and gender variant patients and know the role that mental health providers can play in treating transgender patients
• Improve intake procedures to create a more inclusive office environment

Alert: please note that this will be our last grand rounds before we go out on break for the months of July & August. We will resume grand rounds on September 11th which is not our normal schedule of the 1st, 3rd & 4th Tuesday of ea. month. Our normal schedule will resume on September 18th. We sincerely hope you enjoy your break and we look forward to your participation again in September!

Target Audience – Psychiatrists, psychologists, psychiatry residents and fellows, medical students, social workers, masters in administration, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, nurses and pharmacists.

Tortured Refugee: Humanity Lost and Regained

OHSU Grand Rounds presents on April 19

Dave Kinzie, M.D. – Professor, Department of Psychiatry/OHSU

At the end of the presentation participants will be able to:

* discuss multiple traumas of refugees
* describe psychiatric and medical effects of trauma experienced by refugees
* list effective therapeutic techniques to restore humanity to refugees impacted by torture
* discuss methods of becoming an effective listener and supporter to individuals who have experienced multiple traumas and how these methods affects the participants interactions with his or her own clients or patients

OHSU Department of Psychiatry Grand Rounds are Noon to 1 PM – 1st, 3rd, and 4th Tuesdays
8B60, 8th Floor, OHSU Hospital (unless otherwise noted)

Psychiatry Grand Rounds provides continuing medical education for the target audience.

The goals of Grand Rounds are

• To enable discussion that both is about and involves the patient so the physician can better understand the depth of one’s mental illness.
• Explore the history of certain policies and procedures in place for handling mentally ill patients and what can happen to improve care and treatment that they receive.
• To better explain and expand on various forms of mental illness and how treatment should be approached and practiced by the clinician.