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Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital
Center for Psychiatry and Behavioral Healthcare
invites you to attend its presentations to the healthcare community.
April 25
May 9
Wednesday, April 25
12:00 to 1:30 p.m.
Burtness Auditorium
Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital (get directions)
A buffet lunch and beverages will be provided.
No RSVP or advance registration is required.
Affirming Therapy with Bisexual Clients
Tania Israel, PhD
Associate Professor,
Department of Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology, UCSB
Bisexuals are gaining greater visibility in the media, and youth are increasingly identifying as bisexual. Despite such indicators of apparent acceptance of bisexuality, societal stereotypes and individual biases are widespread. Furthermore, bisexuals are at risk for psychological and behavioral problems and encounter negative experiences with mental health service providers. This presentation will provide an overview of theory and research on bisexuality, including attitudes, psychological patterns, life experiences, and mental health services. Dr. Israel will help attendees increase their awareness of bisexuality and apply bisexual-affirming practices in counseling and psychotherapy.
At the conclusion of the presentation participants will be able to:
- Identify societal and individual biases about bisexuality
- Describe mental health experiences of bisexual people
- Apply current theory and research on bisexuality to client conceptualization
- Generate bi-affirming approaches to counseling and psychotherapy<
Tania Israel is an Associate Professor in the Department of Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Dr. Israel is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, Past-President of the Society of Counseling Psychology (SCP), and recipient the SCP Section for the Advancement of Women 2011 Woman of the Year Award and the SCP Section for LGB Awareness Early Career Award. Her scholarship focuses on interventions to support the mental health and well-being of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) individuals and communities; privilege and oppression; intersections among gender, ethnicity, and sexual orientation; and social justice.
Wednesday, May 9
12:00 to 1:30 p.m.
Burtness Auditorium
Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital (get directions)
A buffet lunch and beverages will be provided.
No RSVP or advance registration is required.
Ancient Wisdom and Healing Universals
David Cumes, MD
Psychologist, Santa Barbara
"Out there beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing -
there is a Field - I will meet you there"
~ Rumii
There is a difference between healing and curing. A patient can be cured and not healed and can heal in spite of not being cured. Furthermore, someone who is healed is also more likely to be cured. The ultimate healer is nature. Here we can encounter first hand all the polarities that need to be balanced in order to find harmony of body, mind and spirit. Ancient wisdom can help us better understand the microcosm of nature and an understanding of energy anatomy can deepen our appreciation of the bio-energy of D.N.A. and its importance in healing. Other topics such as the Inner Healer, placebo versus nocebo, the concept of a "Field" of healing information not localized in space and time, distant diagnosis and healing, the miracle of spontaneous remission of disease and why shamanism matters, will all be discussed.
Participants will learn about:
- The ideal interaction between the four variables of healing; healer or physician, patient, place and Field
- Energy anatomy and its relationship to nature and archetypal symbols
- Nocebo or medical hexing, how it is inadvertently practiced and can be avoided
- Factors which make healing, curing and even spontaneous remission of disease more likely to occur.
- How ultimately the challenge of disease can lead to personal transformation and inner peace even if one is not cured.
David Cumes, MD, received his surgical training in Johannesburg and has taught at Stanford Medical Center. After extensive travel, which included time with the Bushmen and shamans in Peru and South Africa, Dave was initiated as a sangoma or medicine man in South Africa in 2002. He is the author of five books Inner Passages Outer Journey; The Spirit of Healing; Africa in my Bones; Healing Trees and Plants of the Lowvel; and Messages from the Ancestors-Wisdom for the Way.
He is a bridge between Western medicine and indigenous healing wisdom maintaining his surgical practice while also practicing as a sangoma out of his home. His roots are in Africa and his quest is to bring the primal essence of these methods back to the West.
Continuing Education Units
- Physicians: The Santa Barbara County Consortium for CME designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1 hour AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s) . Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. This credit may also be applied to the CMA Certification in Continuing Medical Education.
- Course meets the qualifications for 1 hour of CE credit for MFTs and/or LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences (Provider # PCE 741) and Provider approved for 1 contact hour for RNs by the California Board of Registered Nursing (Provider #00252), through the Education Department, Cottage Health System. Free of charge for CHS Employees and professionals affiliated to Cottage Health System. Others: $15 unit.
All Grand Rounds invitations are now sent by e-mail. If you would like to receive notices by e-mail, and you haven’t already done so, please send your e-mail address to psychgrandrounds@cottagehealthsystem.org. Please use “Grand Rounds” in the subject line.
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