Each session will have an individual link to be sent in the reminder message upon registration and the day of the session.
Course Chair
Jen Matthews, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics; Pediatric Integrative Medicine Director UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland
Course Description
This course will allow the learner to engage with integrative theories and models of mental health care that are housed in wellness, resilience, community, and equity. Participants will learn to Identify and connect how mental health and wellness starts with structural (economic/political/systemic) and community level interventions as well as individual supports. The course will help learners to understand models of care that provide integrative, holistic mental health care through a lens of health equity and apply the principles of holistic mental health and wellness in participants' lives or community efforts.
Lecture Schedule
May 3, 2023
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once: Integrative Approaches to Working with Teens with Anxiety, Depression, and Chronic pain
Panelists:
Lisa Wild, MFT, UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland, School Based Mental Health
Cristina Benki, PhD, UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital, San Francisco, Pediatric Pain Psychologist
May 10, 2023
Growing Health from the Soil Up: the links between earth, farms, food, and wellbeing
Dr. Daphne Miller, Leadership Faculty, Family Medicine Residency Program, LifeLong William Jenkins Health Center
May 17, 2023
Eastern View of the Mind: Comparing Traditional Chinese Medicine & Ayurveda Philosophy
Dr. Anisha Durve, DOM, LAc, Osher Center at University of Miami
May 24, 2023
Researching Psilocybin Therapy: current challenges and future prospects
Dr. Josh Woolley, MD/PhD; UCSF, Director of the Translational Psychedelic Research (TrPR) Program at UCSF
May 31, 2023
Room to Breathe: Therapeutic yoga to address trauma
Chanda Williams, MA, UCSF Osher Center
June 7, 2023
Acupuncture and its use for mental health, expanding our consciousness, and leading us to a path of healing
Dr. Mitch Elkiss, DO- Helm’s Medical Institute