April 2012:
Save the date and come support the BrainDance Awards on May 31st
 Please mark your calendars for Thursday, May 31st at 9am for the Annual BrainDance Awards! Come and support the many high school students from across the state as they display and present their projects on Mental Illness. Your support is greatly appreciated and we welcome anyone who is interested to attend. The 2012 BrainDance Awards Ceremony will be held on Thursday, May 31st at 9am in the Commons Building, 2nd floor. Click here for the BrainDance brochure. Any questions, please contact Nancy Hubbard, LCSW, Director, Outpatient and Rehabilitative Services at (860) 545-7098 or Nehubba@harthosp.org
Ellen Blair, Karen Larsen, and Cynthia Belonick to be published in a new textbook
On April 23, 2012, co-authors Ellen Blair, Karen Larsen, and Cynthia Belonick will see their chapter published in Inpatient: Psychiatric Nursing: Clinical Practices and Practical Interventions, a textbook authored by Ivy League Psychiatric Hospital Nursing Directors. Their chapter is entitled "Nursing Care of the Psychiatric Patient Experiencing Pain".
John W. Goethe, M.D. is conducting a new trial using Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
Dr. John Goethe is conducting a new trial using a new, non-invasive medical device for the treatment of depression known as transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). For further details about this trial, please click here. For more information about transcranial magnetic stimulation therapy, please follow the link to our TMS webpage.
Red Sox/Yankees Raffle & Bake Sale on April 2nd & 3rd to benefit Child & Adolescent Inpatient Services
There will be a bake sale and raffle to benefit Child & Adolescent Inpatient Services on Monday, April 2nd in the Donnelly Building lobby and on Tuesday, April 3rd in the ERC lobby, from 9AM - 3PM. Click here to print the flyer. Along with homemade breads, cookies, cupcakes and spice mixes, raffle tickets will be sold for a Red Sox/Yankees game (runner up: Red Sox/Marlins game tickets). Raffle tickets may also be purchased in advance at the front desk of the Donnelly Building lobby from 11:30AM - 7:30PM Mon-Fri and are $5 per ticket or $20 for 5 raffle tickets. The winner will be drawn on Wednesday, April 4th. This fundraiser will help provide therapeutic supplies and motivators intended to soothe and comfort our patients on the CARES, Child and Adolescent Inpatient Units. These supplies will provide patients with an increased opportunity to cope with and express their thoughts, feelings, and experiences on our unit and in our community. The units serve local children aged 5-17 who are in need of brief hospitalization for issues such as depression, anxiety, or difficulty coping with family conflict. Here we provide group, individual and family therapy, in order to give them the skills they need to be more independent in our community. For any questions, please contact Christina Brault at cbrault@harthosp.org
March 2012:
Please come support the Grace S. Webb School Fundraisers on March 29th & April 10th
The Hartford Hospital Radiography and Radiation Therapy programs are helping to raise awareness and funds for the Grace S. Webb School at The Institute of Living. Every year these students looked forward to an annual trip to the Bronx Zoo, but this year that trip was cut from the budget. Please help make their dream trip another reality by supporting the school's upcoming fundraising events:
● Thursday, March 29th - Bake Sale, ERC lobby, 7:30AM - 3:30PM
● Tuesday, April 10th - Information/collection table, HH Front Lobby, 7:30AM -12:30PM
For more information, please contact Colleen Miller, (860) 545-3579.
Click here to read the March issue of Hartford HealthCare Research News, the Research Program's monthly newsletter.
February 2012:
Dr. Goethe invited to present at Nevada Psychiatric Association Meeting
John W. Goethe, M.D., director of the Burlingame Center for Psychiatric Education and Research, has been invited to present at the 17th Annual Psychopharmacology Conference of the Nevada Psychiatric Association, which will be held February 15-19, 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Dr. Goethe will present:
"Current Prescribing Practices: Antipsychotic Use in Child and Adolescent Inpatients." Goethe JW, Szarek BL, Stevens MC, Price AL
Anxiety Disorders Center/Center for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy News
The Anxiety Disorders Center/Center for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is offering cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) in a self-help format. CBT-I focuses on providing patients with education on insomnia and developing skills to undo the negative habits that feed into a cycle of poor sleep. Patients that have been evaluated and diagnosed with insomnia can complete their treatment at home via the internet. It is our hope that by introducing a home based sleep intervention, we can provide a service that is accessible and effective for those in need of assistance with insomnia. This 6-week program is a cognitive behavioral treatment that focuses on sleep hygiene, sleep restriction, cognitive restructuring, and relaxation techniques. This program is designed for those patients that can complete a home based intervention with minimal therapist support. There is an out of pocket cost of $150, which gives the patient access to the program for 6 months.
Click here to read the January/February issue of Hartford HealthCare Research News, the Research Program's monthly newsletter.
January 2012:
APA Presentations
IOL researchers will make nine presentations at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association. The meeting will take place in Philadelphia, PA from May 5-9, 2012. The titles and dates of these presentations are listed below.
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Diagnostic stability in patients with DSM-IV diagnosis of bipolar disorder.
Szarek BL, Goethe JW, Chmielecki L
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Saturday, 5/5/12
1:30PM - 3PM
Room 111B
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Impaired semantic object recall from features in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
Jamadar S, Assaf M, Pearlson GD
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Saturday, 5/5/12
1:30PM - 3PM
Room 109B |
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Is antidepressant use in bipolar disorder associated with readmission?
Ehret M, Szarek BL, Goethe JW
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Saturday, 5/5/12
3:30PM - 5PM
Room 109B |
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High prevalence and significant pharmacokinetic implications of the CYP2C19 ultra-rapid allele *17 allele in psychotropic-treated patients.
Ruaño G, Gorowski K, Szarek BL, Seip R, Kocherla M, Goethe JW
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Sunday, 5/6/12
2:30PM - 4PM
Room 109B |
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Inpatient psychiatric care: consequences of short LOS.
Schwartz HI, Woolley SB, Goethe JW, Szarek BL
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Monday, 5/7/12
9AM-10:30AM
Room 111B |
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Is posttraumatic stress disorder associated with increased risk of metabolic syndrome among inpatients with mood disorders?
Goethe JW, Szarek BL, Woolley SB
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Monday, 5/7/12
1:30PM - 3PM
Room 109B |
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Moral treatment to recovery: The Ivy League hospitals look at contemporary ethical issues in psychiatry.
Schwartz HI
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Tuesday, 5/8/12
9AM - 12PM
Room 120C
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Variables associated with falls among psychiatric inpatients: The Institute of Living Falls Intervention Initiative.
Blair EW, Szarek BL, Woolley SB, Mucha TF, Dutka O, Schwartz HI, Goethe JW
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Tuesday, 5/8/12
2PM - 3:30PM
Exhibit Halls B=E |
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Insomnia, anxiety, and suicidal ideation.
Woolley SB, Goethe JW, Cohn RL
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Tuesday, 5/8/12
3:30PM - 5PM
Room 111B |
Anxiety Disorders Center/Center for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy News
The Anxiety Disorders Center received two Open Competition Grants from Hartford Hospital The first, "Development of an Anxiety Sensitivity-Based Intervention for Substance Use and Anxiety Comorbidity" (B. Worden & D. Tolin, PIs), aims to test a novel cognitive-behavioral intervention for patients with anxiety and substance use disorders. The second, "Effectiveness and Neuropsychological Predictors of Guided Self-Help for OCD" (G. Diefenbach, PI), aims to examine neuropsychological factors that predict OCD patients' ability to respond to a guided self-help program. In other ADC news, Dr. David Tolin's new book, "Face Your Fears: A Proven Plan to Beat Anxiety, Panic, Phobias, and Obsessions" was released this month and is on sale at Amazon.com or at local booksellers.
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