Armed with the latest data, information, and best practices, along with his over 30 years of experience, Dr. Michael McGee can personalize a clinical training session that will transform the way you approach patient care. Each topic is designed to reinvigorate you and your team, providing you with strategies that help you connect with your patients on a deeper, more meaningful level to enact positive change in their lives.
Personalized Workshops, Keynote Speeches, and Breakout Sessions
From Award Winning Psychiatrist and Author Dr. Michael McGee
Supporting clients on their journey to personal growth requires a personalized approach, and so does managing your practice.
That’s why every clinical training session is personalized just for you.
Dr. Michael McGee offers workshops, keynote presentations, conference breakout sessions, and webinars that tackle a wide range of topics. From technical knowledge and implementation to taking a deep dive into the psyche of patients and clinicians, his Be Well, Do Well approach to clinical care will arm you with the knowledge and inspiration you need to make an even bigger impact on patient outcomes.
Each presentation is organized below according to its major topic area, but trainings can be mixed, matched, and customized to meet your needs.
Clarifying ASAM Criteria
The American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) has created the most comprehensive set of guidelines for the placement, continued stay, transfer, and discharge of patients who are experiencing an addiction, with and without co-occurring conditions.
It is the most widely used criteria for providing outcome-oriented and results-based care when treating addiction.
But, how does that translate to actual care? What is the ASAM Criteria and how can you integrate it into your practice?
Clarifying ASAM Criteria courses are designed to arm you with the knowledge you need to use it confidently and effectively in your practice.
What Using the ASAM Criteria Really Means
Skill-Building and Systems Change
Skill-Building in the ASAM Criteria
Using the Criteria in a Managed Care Environment
Improving Skills and Systems to Implement The ASAM Criteria
Understanding The ASAM Criteria
Principles and Practices
How to Work Effectively with Insurance Payers
and Utilization Review Using The ASAM Criteria
Helping People Change
There's much more to the therapeutic process than knowledge of conditions and treatment strategies. Helping patients create real, true, lasting change in their lives includes harnessing feelings of alliance and allegiance. When they feel like you care and they believe the time they spend with you is valuable and meaningful, you can help even the most difficult to reach patients.
It doesn't mean trying harder to empathize or putting up with unengaged behavior either. With the Helping People Change courses, you can learn detailed techniques that you can rely on time and time again to help clients open up so you can help them help themselves.
Motivational Interviewing 101
The Basics on Engaging People into Treatment
Difficult to Reach Patients and Clients
How Motivational Interviewing Helps
How Motivational Interviewing Can Help Begin The Change Conversation
With Customers In Integrated Health, Substance Use Disorders & Behavioral Health
Helping People Change
What You Can Do to Make or Break the Therapeutic Alliance
Helping People Change
How The ASAM Criteria Can Help
Motivating and Engaging Hard-to-Reach People
into Accountable, Collaborative Treatment
Sticks and Stones
Words and Terms that Will Help You Ruin a Therapeutic Alliance
Co-Occurring Disorders
Treating one mental health disorder is a challenge, but the challenges increase exponentially with each co-occurring disorder. Strategies and techniques that work for one suddenly don't work when you're also facing others concurrently.
Trainings on co-occurring disorders focus on teasing apart these challenges and making them more manageable. With special trainings on co-occurring mental health disorders as well as addiction, you can learn how to best support your patients, regardless of how complex their mental health challenges are.
Co-Occurring Disorders
Clinical Dilemmas in Assessment and Treatment
Integrated Co-Occurring Disorders Services
Assessment, Staff, Skills and Systems Issues
Recovery Management
What Do You Really Mean and Walking the Talk about Recovery
Integrated Co-Occurring Disorders Services
How The ASAM Criteria Promote Integrated Care
Why Integrating Mental Health and Addiction Services is Hard
and What to Do About It
Person-Centered Services and Treatment Planning
It's easy to get lost in the operation of your practice and approach patient care from your point of view as a provider. But, that can lead to poor patient outcomes because you're not taking a patient-centered approach to treatment planning.
This series of trainings enables you to focus on building skills and developing treatment plans that center completely on the patients you're serving. When you learn to focus on person-centered services, your patients will experience better outcomes, and you'll learn to walk the talk, which will help you build more meaningful connections with those you treat.
Skill Building in the Therapeutic Alliance
and Collaborative Treatment and Documentation
How to Develop Treatment Plans that Make Sense to Clients
Improving Documentation and Clinical Use of the Treatment Plan and Progress Notes
Person-Centered Services
What Do You Really Mean and Walking the Talk
Discovery, Dropout Prevention versus Recovery, Relapse Prevention
Doing Treatment and Change, not Doing Time
Understanding Addiction
As new research has been published and new methods of treatment are being conducted, we're learning that addiction is so much more than a brain disease. In order to truly support those who are struggling with an addiction, practitioners have to arm themselves with the latest knowledge.
That's what this series of trainings aims to do. Filled with information that will profoundly change the way you view addiction, each one will provide you with the knowledge you need to help your patients more deeply than you've ever done before.
What They Never Taught You in School About Substance Use and Addiction
and What to Do About It
Slips, Slides and Sobriety
Dealing with Relapse
What They Never Taught You in School About Substance Use and Addiction
Addiction: It Isn’t All a Brain Disease
Getting Back to Biopsychosocial
Organizational Development
Your passion is helping patients, but with such a singular focus on patient care, your practice can start to show cracks. Without the right organizational strategies, it can crumble under the weight of conflicts, burnout, and other challenges.
With over 30 years of experience and armed with the latest information and research, Dr. Michael McGee offers a few different trainings that will help you maintain a healthy mindset and a healthy team, even in the midst of helping those with the most challenging addictions and mental health issues.
Compassion Fatigue, Communication, Conflict, Coping
How to Keep the Behavioral Health Team Healthy
Maintaining a Healthy Team
Communication, Conflicts, and Coping
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How to Survive and Thrive During Integration Implementation
Justice Services and Treatment
Working with patients who require court ordered mental health treatment poses intense challenges. Patients aren't always engaged and relapse always feels like it's just around the corner. You are left feeling like you’re helping your patients do their time, but they aren’t actually experiencing lasting change.
There is hope when treating challenging patients in the court system when you receive the right support.
From learning how to deal with patients who aren't participating to knowing exactly what to say when working with law enforcement and court teams, Dr. Michael McGee's justice-involved treatment trainings will provide you with actionable knowledge you can use in your practice. You’ll leave the training inspired to continue making a difference in your community.
Moving Beyond Compliance to Lasting Change
How The ASAM Criteria and Evidence-Based Practices Can Help
Moving Away from Cookie Cutter Care
What Individualized Treatment Really Means
Doing Time or Doing Change?
Collaborating for Accountable Treatment and Recovery
Don't Give Treatment a Bad Name
What You Need to Know and Do to Work with Mandated Clients
What to Do When Participants Aren’t Really Participating
Doing the Minimum to Comply, Poor Attendance, Using Substances
Discharge, Suspend or Sanction?
Improving Skills and Systems to Deal with Relapse, Continued Use and Continued Problems
Five Key Principles in Helping People Change
Implications for Policies and Practices in Drug and Treatment Courts
Words Matter
Terminology that Inhibits Successful Outcomes and What to Say if in a Court Team, Law Enforcement or Treatment
Improving Communication and Multidisciplinary Team Work
How to Communicate and Integrate Treatment and Case information
One-Day and Multi-Day Trainings,
Online or In-Person,
That Are Completely Customized According to Your Needs
No matter what the size of your team or the challenges you’re facing, Dr. Michael McGee can personalize a training session just for you.
Each one includes from-the-heart techniques based on Dr. McGee’s Be Well, Do Well approach that supports wellness and clinical skill among clinicians as the first step to wellness among patients. You will return to your practice with knowledge and strategies that will reinvigorate your mindset so you can bring even better care to those you serve.
