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Impact Talk | Jessica Wojtalik: "Improving Functional Recovery in Serious Mental Illness"

Wednesday, April 3rd, 2024
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Add to Calendar: Add to Calendar 2024-04-03 12:00:00 2024-04-03 13:30:00 Impact Talk | Jessica Wojtalik: "Improving Functional Recovery in Serious Mental Illness" Event Description Learn how careers in social work are making a difference in society! You're invited to join the Mandel School for our 2024 Impact Talk series—four excellent opportunities to be inspired by our faculty and staff and their specializations. The events will be held from noon to 1:30 p.m., with the presentations beginning at 12:30 p.m., in Noble Commons and via livestream (livestream will open at 12:20 p.m.). They will be recorded for later viewing on the Mandel School's YouTube channel. Mandel School students can receive one PD hour for each Impact Talk they attend; one CEU will be offered for everyone else.  Lunch will be provided for in-person guests, and all attendees will have a chance to win three raffle prizes. Join Jessica Wojtalik, assistant professor, as she discusses how people living with serious mental illness (SMI) can make meaningful contributions to society and our greater good, yet our current mental health system does little to promote meaningful functional recovery. Her research focuses on integrating social work mental health interventions and cognitive neuroscience to improve evidence-based, anti-stigmatizing and recovery-oriented interventions that target community functioning. She will focus on her decade plus of experience researching and providing Cognitive Enhancement Therapy (CET), an evidence-based cognitive remediation intervention for SMI. Wojtalik will also present initial findings and future directions from a recently developing path of research on the Clubhouse Model of Psychosocial Rehabilitation for SMI.  Mandel School | Noble Commons 11235 Bellflower Road Cleveland, OH 44106 OR  Livestream Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences America/New_York public

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Event Description

Learn how careers in social work are making a difference in society! You're invited to join the Mandel School for our 2024 Impact Talk series—four excellent opportunities to be inspired by our faculty and staff and their specializations.

The events will be held from noon to 1:30 p.m., with the presentations beginning at 12:30 p.m., in Noble Commons and via livestream (livestream will open at 12:20 p.m.). They will be recorded for later viewing on the Mandel School's YouTube channel.

Mandel School students can receive one PD hour for each Impact Talk they attend; one CEU will be offered for everyone else. 

Lunch will be provided for in-person guests, and all attendees will have a chance to win three raffle prizes.

Join Jessica Wojtalik, assistant professor, as she discusses how people living with serious mental illness (SMI) can make meaningful contributions to society and our greater good, yet our current mental health system does little to promote meaningful functional recovery. Her research focuses on integrating social work mental health interventions and cognitive neuroscience to improve evidence-based, anti-stigmatizing and recovery-oriented interventions that target community functioning. She will focus on her decade plus of experience researching and providing Cognitive Enhancement Therapy (CET), an evidence-based cognitive remediation intervention for SMI. Wojtalik will also present initial findings and future directions from a recently developing path of research on the Clubhouse Model of Psychosocial Rehabilitation for SMI. 

Event Location

Mandel School | Noble Commons

11235 Bellflower Road

Cleveland, OH 44106

OR 

Livestream

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