MH Mediate September 12th Meeting

MH Mediate 9/12 MeetingMental Health Mediation

Meeting Agenda 5:30 PM – Socialization / Hellos 5:50 PM – Introduction to MH Mediate 6:00 PM – Terminology 6:20 PM – Mental Health Professionals 6:40 PM – Americans with Disabilities Act 7:00 PM – Ways to Get Involved 7:10 PM – General Discussion 7:30 PM – Meeting Ends

About MH Mediate MH Mediate is a mental health mediation community. Areas to explore include:  Mediation trainings for mental health communities  Mental health trainings for mediation communities  Mental health accommodations in mediation  Mediation in mental health contexts  Mediating across mental health perspectives

MH Mediate Events Past Events  ACR-GNY Conference Workshop (6/2012)  John Jay Dispute Resolution Breakfast (8/2012)  First MH Mediate Meeting (8/2012) Upcoming Events  Community Boards Workshop (San Fran, 9/27/12)  NAFCM Webinar (10/11/12)  Mental Health First Aid Trainings

MH Mediate Resources MH Mediate Resource Page  mhmediate.org/resources  Status: looking for more resources and need to add past suggestions MH Mediate Draft Framework  Status: Circulating initial document, need to incorporate feedback MH Mediate Mental Health Landscape “Map”  Status: Reached out to NYU Active Minds and Applied Undergraduate Psychology Club for Interns MH Mediate In-Service Training  Status: Rough draft completed, receiving feedback at NYPI tomorrow and receive positive response from Community Boards

MH Mediate People Mailing List Members Meeting Attendees Advisory Committee? Looking for people to get more involved Looking for organizations Looking for conferences/events

Mental Health Terminology Overview  There are multiple, evolving languages to use to describe mental health  We need to decide on a language to use in MH Mediate  We need to ensure a cultural competency and awareness of all languages

Terminology: Medical Model Medical Language – Mental Illness  Who counts as “mentally ill” and who doesn’t?  Do brain injury, mental retardation, or developmental disorders count?  These labels are changing as the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders (DSM) changes  What problems are “serious”? “severe”?  Diagnoses change, co-occur, and have different implications for different people  Chronic (am I always mentally ill) or only when acutely mentally ill  Disabled?

Extremely Normal

Terminology: Glossaries

Terminology: “Am” I bipolar?

Terminology: Survivors, Consumers, and Individuals

Terminology: A culture of mad gifts

MindFreedom * Psychiatric survivor * Person labeled with a psychiatric disability * Person diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder * Person with a mental health history * Person with mental health issues * Consumer/Survivor/eX-inmate (CSX) * Person who has experienced the mental health system * Person experiencing severe and overwhelming mental and emotional problems (describe, such as "despair") * Person our society considers to have very different and unusual behavior (describe, such as "not sleeping")

Questions Who can we turn to for answers in defining this?  Pathology  Culture  Evolving medical model How do we address this?  Idea: We anticipate mental health needs without asking someone to define them explicitly, and we are universal in our language.

Mental Health Professionals Overview  How much contact should a mediator have with mental health professionals?  Neutral mental health professionals  Learn about disorders before mediation?  Come to mediation to ensure fairness? “resource person”?  Parties’ mental health professionals  Speak to mediator before mediation?  Come to the mediation?  Conduct the mediation? (if trained)  Other situations?

Guidelines for Mental Health Professionals ????

Specific Example As part of our intake, when someone indicates that they are working with a counselor or therapist and the subject matter of the mediation could involve some mental health issues, we have asked if that client would be willing to sign a consent to release information with us and the therapist. For example: Discrimination due to MI, family mediation couples therapy Cases where I have not asked for consent: landlord tenant mediation, small claims-type contract mediation.

Americans with Disabilities Act

Other Issues Will promises be kept? Assessing realistic goals Differences between mediation and therapy

Next Steps for Contributors 9/12 to 11/12 – get feedback from interns Gayle will do 2.5 hours a week Cissy’s intern suggestion in neuropsychobiological areas of conflict and conflict resolution Blog Share Powerpoint

MH Mediate September 12th Meeting

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