Our book, "Healthy Living with Bipolar Disorder" is now available for free! Just e-mail us here and we will e-mail you a copy! 
Please share your thoughts and feelings about the book with us! 

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A BIG THANK YOU TO OUR 2013 GALA SPONSORS!

Lisa & Steve Altman
Lynn & Fred Muto
Debby & Hal Jacobs        
Robin & Hank Nordhoff   
Marie & Merrel Olesen
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June Lecture with Kristen Dahlin

On June 13, 2013 at 5:30 pm, International Bipolar Foundation will be holding their free monthly mental health lecture with Kristen Dahlin on, “Treating Severe Mood Dysregulation with Dialectical Behavior Therapy.”

Kristen Dahlin, M.A. graduated with Honors (B.A.) from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She earned a Master’s degree in Psychology at the California School of Professional Psychology (CSPP) at Alliant International University and is currently completing a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at Alliant. Ms. Dahlin has extensive training in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and cognitive behavior therapy interventions for mood, anxiety, and personality disorders. She has previously held positions at Community Research Foundation’s Vista Balboa Crisis House and Rady Children’s Hospital, where she has worked with adults, children, adolescents, and families. She is currently a Psychological Assistant (# PSB36427) at the DBT Center of San Diego, where she conducts individual DBT therapy and DBT skills groups under the supervision of Dr. Milton Brown (PSY 20785).

Date: Thursday, June, 13, 2013

Social: 5:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Lecture: 6:00 pm- 7:00 pm

Location: Sanford Children's Research Center, Building 12
10905 Road to the Cure
San Diego, CA 92121

Event and parking are free!
R.S.V.P. to areitzin@internationalbipolarfoundation.org
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May Webinar with Leslie Morrison

Title: Behavioral Restraint and Seclusion

Join us for a Webinar on May 23, 2013 at 9:00 am PST.

Space is limited, reserve your Webinar seat now at:
https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/120707254

Leslie Morrison is the Director of Disability Rights California’s (DRC) Investigations Unit. She directs investigations of allegations of abuse and/or neglect involving persons with disabilities, with the focus being systemic reform. She is a national expert on the use of restraints and seclusion for behavior management. She has conducted a number of investigations into injuries and deaths resulting from the use of restraint in a variety of settings, including treatment facilities, community residential facilities, and schools. She has authored legislation to reform restraint and seclusion practices CA.

Leslie was a member of a federal advisory committee for grants awarded to states to reduce and eliminate restraint and seclusion practices in state facilities. Leslie is an attorney and used to be a registered nurse with a graduate degree in psychiatric nursing.

Title: Behavioral Restraint and Seclusion

Date: Thursday, May 23, 2013

Time: 9:00 am - 10:00 am PST

After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar.

System Requirements
PC-based attendees
Required: Windows® 7, Vista, XP or 2003 Server
Mac®-based attendees
Required: Mac OS® X 10.5 or newer
Mobile attendees
Required: iPhone®, iPad®, Android™ phone or Android tablet 
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June Webinar with Dr. Descartes Li

Title: Electroconvulsive Therapy

Join us for a Webinar on June 20, 2013 at 9:00 am PST.

Space is limited, reserve your Webinar seat now at:
 https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/223154414

Dr. Descartes Li is a Professor of Psychiatry at University of California, San Francisco. He is the co-Director of the UCSF Electroconvulsive Therapy Service as well as the Director of the UCSF Bipolar Program. His work involves teaching both UCSF Psychiatry residents as well as UCSF medical students. He has been in clinical practice since 1997 and also speaks Mandarin Chinese.

Dr. Li gives numerous talks and presentations in both academic and community settings. His areas of interest include bipolar disorder, electroconvulsive therapy, cultural psychiatry, and suicide.

Descartes Li has a Master Educator certificate from the Association for Academic Psychiatry and completed a two-year Faculty Fellowship in Educational Scholarship (UCSF Department of Psychiatry). In 2008, he received the Award for Excellence in Teaching from the UCSF Academy of Medical Educators (UCSF). He is a dedicated teacher and public speaker.
 

Title:  Electroconvulsive Therapy

Date: Thursday, June 20, 2013

Time: 9:00 am - 10:00 am PST

After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar.

System Requirements
PC-based attendees
Required: Windows® 7, Vista, XP or 2003 Server
Mac®-based attendees
Required: Mac OS® X 10.5 or newer
Mobile attendees
Required: iPhone®, iPad®, Android™ phone or Android tablet

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June Webinar with Dr. Lloyd Sederer

Title:  A Tale of Two Families - Helping a loved one with a mental illness

Join us for a Webinar on June 12, 2013 at 9:00 am PST.

Space is limited, reserve your Webinar seat now at:
https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/561927662

LLOYD I. SEDERER, M.D., is Medical Director of the New York State Office
of Mental Health (OMH), the nation's largest state mental health system. As New York's “chief psychiatrist”, he provides medical leadership for a $3.7 billion per year mental health system which annually serves over 700,000 people and includes 24 hospitals, 90 clinics, two research institutes, and community services throughout a state of ~ 19 million people.

Dr. Sederer is an Adjunct Professor at the Columbia/Mailman School of Public Health.

Previously, Dr. Sederer served as the Executive Deputy Commissioner for Mental Hygiene Services in NYC, the City’s “chief psychiatrist”. He also has been Medical Director and Executive Vice President of McLean Hospital in Belmont, MA, a Harvard teaching hospital, and Director of the Division of Clinical Services for the American Psychiatric Association.

In 2013 Dr. Sederer was given the Irma Bland Award for Excellence in Teaching Residents by the American Psychiatric Association, which in 2009 recognized him as the Psychiatric Administrator of the Year. He also has been awarded a Scholar-in-Residence grant by the Rockefeller Foundation and an Exemplary Psychiatrist award from the National Alliance on Mental Illness. He has published eight books and over 350 articles and reports in professional and lay publications including TheAtlantic.com, The New York Times, The International Herald Tribune, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Commonweal Magazine and The Boston Business Journal. He is Medical Editor for Mental Health for the Huffington Post/AOL, where over 150 of his posts and videos have appeared in recent years.

His new book, The Family Guide to Mental Health Care (Foreword by Glenn Close), is for families of people with mental illness. His next book, co-authored with Jay Neugeboren and Michael Friedman, The Diagnostic Manual of Mishegas (The DMOM), a parody, will be released on the same day as the DSM 5.
Dr. Sederer’s website is www.askdrlloyd.com.

Title: A Tale of Two Families - Helping a loved one with a mental illness

Date: Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Time: 9:00 am - 10:00 am PST

After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar.

System Requirements
PC-based attendees
Required: Windows® 7, Vista, XP or 2003 Server
Mac®-based attendees
Required: Mac OS® X 10.5 or newer
Mobile attendees
Required: iPhone®, iPad®, Android™ phone or Android tablet