AACP Newsletter, Volume 7, Number 2, Spring 1993

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Successful Winter Meeting Held in Charleston, South Carolina

Approximately 115 mental health professionals attended the day long conference co-sponsored by the AACP, the South Carolina Department of Mental Health, as well as the South Carolina Psychiatric Association in Charleston, SC, on January 29, 1993. Several AACP members arrived early to also participate in the International Conference on Organization of Services for People with Severe Mental Illness in the Community, sponsored by the École Libre des Hautes Études (otherwise known as the French University of New York). Although separate, the two conferences complemented each other and AACP members were able to “network” with guests from France, England and elsewhere (see article below). A reception was held Thursday evening and many participants stayed to enjoy the weekend in Charleston, which included a very well attended Board meeting on Saturday. For the Friday conference, participants were able to choose to attend four of eight workshops, many of which were presented by AACP Board members. A total of 57 evaluation forms were turned in which rated the workshops on a scale of 1 to 5 (poor to excellent); the average rating for quality of workshops was 4.2 (“good plus”) (range 3.5-4.7). As listed in the final program, the workshops were:

  • Treating the mentally ill substance abuser
    Kenneth Minkoff, MD

  • Cross-cultural treatment issues in seriously mentally ill patients
    Tony A. Gore, MD, Paul K. Switzer, MD, Syglenda Saziru, RN, H. Randolph Scott, MD

  • Providing housing and services for homeless mentally ill individuals
    Stephen Goldfinger, MD, and Fred C. Osher, MD

  • Innovative treatments for adults with mental illness in the community
    Paul A. Deci, MD, Joseph J. Zealberg, MD, Barbara Julius, ACSW, Steven McLeod-Bryant, MD, Alberto B. Santos, MD

  • Child psychiatry in a community mental health system: Improving access to care through public-academic collaboration
    Steven Cuffe, MD, Michael Cuccaro, Ph.D., Anne S. Abel, MD

  • The psychiatrist administrator in the public sector Survival skills workshop
    Donald B. Brown, MD and Michael A. Silver, MD

  • Comprehensive treatment of seriously mentally ill patients in the community: Current state of the art and future directions
    David L. Cutler, MD and Richard Warner, MD

  • Funding health care in the 21st century: Implications for psychiatry
    David Pollack, MD

Charles Goldman, MD
Charleston, SC

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