TeleBehavioral Health 2025: Utilizing telehealth, A Brief Treatment Model, and the Wellness Approach to Provide Culturally Informed Services to Alaska Natives
Overview:
Join us for an informative webinar in the TeleBehavioral Health (TBH) Series, featuring the Behavioral Health Wellness Clinic (BHWC), a program of the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium (ANTHC). The BHWC provides culturally responsive telehealth services to Alaska Native and American Indian individuals aged 18 and older, promoting intergenerational wellness.
In this session, we’ll explore the BHWC’s evolution into a vital resource for Alaska Natives and a trusted partner to Tribal Health Organizations. Learn how the clinic has pioneered innovative approaches to increase connectivity, build partnerships, and assemble a dedicated team of clinicians and administrators.
We’ll also highlight how integrating cultural values with an understanding of sociopolitical and historical factors has been key to increasing service utilization and empowering Alaska Native communities through behavioral health services.
Joseph Forscher, Director of the Behavioral Health Wellness Clinic ANTHC
Biography:
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Event interval: Accessibility Contact: jerchris@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Friday, May 16, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
Registration:
https://washington.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_3s1WbbxwSYC2jn0oKSl3Tg.
TeleBehavioral Health 2025: Suicide Risk Assessment and Management in the Age of Telehealth
Overview:
In this session, Dr. Kate Comtois, PhD reviews how clinicians using telebehavioral health can assess suicide risk and offers further techniques on telebehavioral health risk assessment and management.
Biography:
Dr. Comtois is a clinical psychologist at the UWMC Outpatient Psychiatry Clinic, Professor at UW Department of Psychiatry, and researcher who has been working with suicidal and high emotionally distressed patients for more than 30 years. In addition to providing clinical work herself, she is a trainer and director of the Suicide Care Research Center (SCRC) and the Center for Suicide Prevention and Recovery (CSPAR) whose goals are to improve support for staff as well as suicidal patients and their families. Read more: https://uwcspar.org/faculty/katherine-anne-kate-comtois-phd-mph/
Learning Objectives:
At the conclusion of this presentation, attendees should be able to: Appreciate methods to assess suicide risk over telehealth. , Describe how to prepare to care for those who are high-risk…
Event interval: Accessibility Contact: jerchris@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Friday, June 20, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
Registration:
https://washington.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_woHQ0QRxTdKYft2vcjoywQ.