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Zarrow Mental Health Symposium opens early bird registration through August 19th

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🌟Here’s your chance to attend a nationally-recognized mental health conference at a special low rate🌟 🎉 Calling all mental health professionals, advocates and supporters! Secure your spot at the 30th annual Zarrow Mental Health Symposium by registering early and enjoying exclusive benefits! This year’s theme is Life Stages: Mental Health Across a Lifetime. 📅 Date: […]

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The Zarrow Symposium Call for Presentations deadline is extended

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If you missed the April 9th deadline, you have a few more days! The Call for Presentations deadline has been extended to April 15th. See below for more information. The theme for this year’s event is Life Stages: Mental Health Across a Lifetime. We are seeking 60 and 90 minute breakout session proposals where you can

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Zarrow Mental Health Symposium opens its call for presentations

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Join us as we explore the many influences throughout our lifetime that can shape our mental health, impact our resilience, and support our recovery. The 2024 theme for our Zarrow Mental Health Symposium is “Mental Health Across a Lifetime.” Mental Health Association Oklahoma is seeking symposium presentation proposals from presenters around the globe interested in sharing information

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Juli Leber and Emily McPherson on the Mental Health Download

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Happy New Year, friends! The first Mental Health Download episode of 2024 is live, and it’s a timely one. According to the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, the rate of unintentional drug overdose deaths increased 67% from 2019 to 2021, and methamphetamine was involved in nearly two-thirds of those tragic occurrences.

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NEAR Science: Beyond ACEs, a fascinating area of mental health

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With very little exception, our entire staff attends a monthly training which serves to augment our understanding of the organization, the mission we strive to fulfill and the people we serve. Each session proves valuable, offering a layer of insight previously unknown, and each one is dotted with “aha” moments that are critical in adapting

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Zarrow Now: Dr. Kara Bagot discusses trends in adolescent addiction and the impact of digital and mobile technologies

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Dr. Kara Bagot closed out our 2023 Zarrow Mental Health Symposium keynote sessions with a fascinating, if not jarring, presentation on trends in adolescent addiction. Keeping with the modern world in which we live, she spoke not just of substance use, but also of technology addiction, as well as the impact of covid on trends

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Zarrow Now: Dr. Xiaosi Gu expounds on the use of AI in mental health

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Our second keynote for the 2023 Zarrow Mental Health Symposium: New Horizons in Brain Science was Dr. Xiaosi Gu. Dr. Gu’s presentation, entitled Computational Psychiatry: Can AI Solve the Mental Health Crisis? blended decades of extensive research with the emerging and intricate technology of Artificial Intelligence. Unexpected at the start was her declarative that this

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Zarrow Now: Dr. Xavier Amador’s relationship with his brother was the foundation for LEAP

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MHAOK is honored to have Dr. Xavier Amador as our first keynote speaker of the 2023 Zarrow Mental Health Symposium: New Horizons in Brain Science. His presentation aptly shares a name with his best-selling book, “I AM NOT SICK! I don’t need help!” It was compelling, educative and filled with ‘aha moments.’ Like most good

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Susan Magsamen discusses ‘your brain on art’

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With the 2023 Zarrow Mental Health Symposium less than ten days away, we are thrilled to release another keynote speaker conversation on the Mental Health Download, our podcast dedicated to exploring homelessness, mental illness, suicide, incarceration and innovative tools for addressing these challenges. Today, we featured Susan Magsamen, founder and executive director of the International

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Dr. Xavier Amador sheds insight on the effects of anosognosia

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We’re less than one month from the 2023 Zarrow Mental Health Symposium, and we are so excited to be talking to many of this year’s presenters on the Mental Health Download, our podcast dedicated to exploring homelessness, mental illness, suicide, incarceration and innovative tools for addressing these challenges. Today, Mental Health Association Oklahoma’s Chief Programs

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