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Emergency Care of those Experiencing Psychosis: Common Challenges, Solutions, & the Open Dialogue Approach | December 4, 2023

Date of Presentation: December 4, 2023

Type: Past Presentation  

Audience: Clinical  

Program: Emergency Medicine with Rural and Indigenous Communities/IHS  

Keywords: #de-escalation  #ed  #emergency  #mental health  #open dialogue  #psychosis  

In this presentation, Dr. Joseph Stoklosa, provides an overview of emergency care of those experiencing psychosis, including common challenges, solutions and the open dialogue approach. Dr. Stoklosa describes the inadequacies of the current system of care for people with serious mental illness, discusses principles of Open Dialogue’s approach for people with psychosis, challenges in care of the patient experiencing psychosis in emergency settings as well as the approach, evaluation, and treatment of the patient with psychosis and agitation, including de-escalation techniques.

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Presented by:

Joseph Stoklosa, MD

Joseph Stoklosa, MD, earned his medical degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and completed his psychiatry residency training at Massachusetts General Hospital/McLean Hospital. He serves as the clinical director of McLean’s Division of Psychotic Disorders. Previously, he served as the assistant program director for the MGH/McLean Adult Psychiatry Residency Training Program for five years. Dr. Stoklosa has earned local, regional, and national teaching awards for his work with medical students and residents. He is co-founder and co-director of the Clinician Educator Program for the MGH/McLean residency program, which trains residents to become clinician-educators. Dr. Stoklosa developed the clinical care on the Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder Inpatient Program to help improve the use of evidence-based treatment, including care modeled after Finland’s Open Dialogue.

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Date added: November 22, 2023