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UMSL Daily Interviews MIMH’s Rachel Winograd

UMSL Daily Interviews MIMH’s Rachel Winograd

Rachel Winograd was in an internet café in Central America when she found out that she got accepted into the University of Missouri–Columbia’s graduate program for clinical psychology. The San Francisco Bay Area native, who studied both psychology and theater at Emory University in Atlanta, was working on a farm while waiting to see where tentative future plans for graduate school might take her. Read the entire interview on UMSL Daily’s blog.

Projects by MIMH

ACTTAY

ACTAY: Assertive Community Treatment for Transitional Age Youth

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Screening and Brief Intervention in Missouri (MOSBIRT)

MOSBIRT is a substance abuse prevention project that has screened more than 200,000 Missourians in various medical settings for risky substance use behaviors. Those at risk are offered 1 to 6 brief evidence based sessions to reduce those risks. With this early intervention, individuals can reduce their risks and improve their health.

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Resources by MIMH

Skin Cancer Update for the Family Physician

Skin cancer is an epidemic. The incidence of non-melanoma skin cancer in 2006 was over 3,500,000, and one in five individuals living in the United States will develop a non-melanoma skin cancer over the course of their lifetime. The incidence of both melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancer is rising year after year. Because of this, it is important that patients are trained on “sun smart” behaviors and skin self exams. Further, primary care providers play a critical role in examining patients for cutaneous malignancies at regular office visits as part of overall health maintenance. This presentation will discuss the three most commonly diagnosed forms of skin cancer, basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma and melanoma. Epidemiologic information, clinical features, diagnostic techniques and considerations as well as treatments will be discussed in a condensed fashion targeted to the audience. Sun protective measures that patients should be educated about will be discussed as well. Upon completion of this exercise, the audience should have increased comfort in the assessment of lesions suspicious for skin cancer and improved knowledge regarding diagnosis and treatment of these three malignancies.

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Empowering People with Mental Illness through Treatment Planning

People have the right to participate in their own lives to the extent they can, and this applies to people with mental illnesses and other vulnerable populations. In this presentation, Dr. Linhorst defines empowerment, lays out the conditions and circumstances under which empowerment is likely to take place, and provides concrete examples of applying the principles of empowerment.

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Founder, Former Director of MIMH, Dr. George Ulett Jr., passes away

George A. Ulett, Jr., MD passed away on February 20, in Rockville, MD. He was 97. A long time St. Louis resident, Dr. Ulett was best known as the former director of the Missouri Division of Mental Diseases where, under his leadership, Missouri went from one of the worst-funded mental ...

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Fashion and the Brain – 2018 Scientist Artist Collaborative

UMSL-Missouri Institute of Mental Health is proud to host transmedial artist, educator and curator Yvonne Osei (yvonneosei.com) for the third year of the MIMH’s Scientist Artist Collaborative (SAC) program. The exhibition represents the culmination of the UMSL-MIMH 2018 Scientist Artist Collaborative. Osei collaborated with scientists, researchers, and clinicians at MIMH ...

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MISSOURI INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH AT UMSL (MIMH) AND THE ST. LOUIS PSYCHIATRIC REHABILITATION CENTER (SLPRC) PRESENT MENTAL HEALTH ART SHOWCASE IN MAY

In celebration of Mental Health Awareness month, Missouri Institute of Mental Health at UMSL (MIMH) and the St. Louis Psychiatric Rehabilitation Center (SLPRC) are collaborating to produce a “Mental Health Awareness Art Showcase: Connecting Communities Through Art.” The showcase will display numerous works of art guided by the concept question: ...

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