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Barnabas Health Behavioral Health Center's Psychiatric Symposium Educates Healthcare Professionals

Barnabas Health Behavioral Health Center’s Psychiatric Symposium Educates Healthcare Professionals

In an effort to improve awareness for those who have suffered a trauma-inducing experience, Barnabas Health Behavioral Health Center hosted a Psychiatric Symposium on Thursday, October 10, where more than 85 health professionals learned about new treatment options to facilitate recovery.

Eric Arauz, the event’s keynote speaker and author of An American’s Resurrection, shared his personal account of spending 20 hours in restraints while being treated at a psychiatric facility and how he overcame the traumatic experience. He also spoke about his work bringing recovery interventions to the inpatient setting.

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Healthcare providers learned about new, trauma-related approaches to care and how mental and substance abuse disorders can often be linked to past traumatic experiences. Expert lecturers included Iris L. Carter, MHS, Donald E. Erwin, Ph. D. and Audrey Leah Kelly, Ed. D., APNC.

About Barnabas Health Behavioral Health Center

The Barnabas Health Behavioral Health Center offers an extensive array of high-quality, clinically-focused programs. These programs include a 100-bed acute care psychiatric facility which provides inpatient and intensive outpatient programs for adults and older adults diagnosed with psychiatric and dual disorders.  At the Barnabas Health Behavioral Health Center, the multidisciplinary staff includes experienced professionals in nearly every facet of behavioral health care. This allows the provision of truly customized and highly specialized treatment tracks, as well as programs for the dually diagnosed.

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For more information or to make a referral to the Barnabas Health Behavioral Health Center, please call 800.300.0628. 

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