May 15-18, 2012
Hilton Anchorage
Anchorage, Alaska
The agenda is filled at this time. We are accepting proposals to be placed on the wait list
should we receive
any cancellations prior to the conference.
The National Association for Rural Mental Health invites you to join us in the land of midnight sun, aurora borealis,
mountains majesty, salmon filled waters and rich traditional cultures for the 38th Annual Conference in Anchorage,
Alaska. If you have ever dreamed about visiting Alaska, there will no better time to do so then for our conference May 15-18, 2012.
Reflecting a strong rural identity and vast network of service providers and communities, the title of this conference is Alaska: We are RURAL and then some!
The National Association of Rural Mental Health invites presentation ideas for the following themes:
- Aging and mental health
- Mental health/behavioral workforce development
- Program success-evidence base practice, and promising approaches
- Cultural attunement and culturally attuned services
Specific topics could address
- Telebehavioral health, telepsychiatry, and other at a distance approaches and services
- Wellness-traditional and New Age
- Confronting the stigma of mental illness and mental health services at the local level
- Provider and resources collaboration-none of us is stronger than all of us
- Resilience of rural people and communities
- Professional kinship, i.e., we are all in this together!
- Mental health/behavioral health literacy across cultures and/or development stages, e.g., for the elderly
- Clinical supervision at a distance
- Integrating mental health and primary care
- Dual relationships in rural communities: The delicate balance of ethics and connection
- Growing our own behavioral health workforce
- Cultural attunement and culturally attuned context
- Domestic violence and sexual assault
- Substance abuse intervention and prevention
- The wisdom and guidance of Elders and other mentors
- Other