News

April 30, 2002
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Carol Carrithers, Vice President
Marketing and Communications
502-589-8600(W) or 245-5782 (H)

Seven Counties Services Sponsors Workshop
about Improving Mental Health Outcomes for Older Adults

Seven Counties Services’ Training Institute, in conjunction with the University of Louisville Noble H. Kelly Psychological Services Center, the Kentucky Psychological Association and Dr. Elizabeth Moran Fitzgerald, Inc., will present:

Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) in the Treatment of Late Depression
9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Friday, May 10
The Inn at Jewish Hospital
105 West Jefferson St.
Louisville, KY

Participants will become familiar with current research on the use of IPT in successfully treating older adults as well as the basic therapeutic goals, strategies, and techniques of IPT. In addition, the presenter will share cases of depressed older adults treated with IPT, and provide the opportunity for participants to apply IPT to their clinical work.

The workshop will benefit nurses, psychologists, social workers, counselors, marriage and family therapists, mental health professionals, nursing home staff, and long-term care professionals.

Presenter Gregory A. Hinrichsen, Ph.D., is the Associate Director of Psychology, Geriatric Psychiatry Division, Long Island Jewish Medical Center. He also serves on the faculties of Albert Einstein College of Medicine and St. John’s University. He serves as a member of the Mental Health and Aging Network of the American Society on Aging, and as a member of the American Psychological Association’s Presidential Task Force on Aging. Dr. Hinrichsen is the author of Mental Health Problems and Older Adults (ABC-CLIO, 1990), and is a contributing author to The Encyclopedia of Adult Development (Oryx Press, 1990).

The workshop registration fee is $119 per person. A 10% discount is available for Kentucky Psychological Association members. For more information regarding continuing education credits and to register, contact Seven Counties’ Training Institute at 502-589-8600.

Seven Counties Services, Inc. is a private, non-profit corporation that provides planning, prevention, treatment and support in the areas of mental health, alcohol and other drug abuse, and mental retardation and other developmental disabilities in Jefferson, Bullitt, Shelby, Spencer, Henry, Oldham, and Trimble counties. It is Kentucky’s largest comprehensive mental health center, and one of the nation’s largest. More than 1,400 clinical and administrative staff members provide services to approximately 30,000 persons each year.