Professional Training Resources and Consultations with Dr. Yoman
Dr. Yoman provides consultation and in-service training for professionals to promote effective human services. Training and consultation are responsive to client, staff, and management needs and the realities of the service system.
Dr. Yoman can help with:
- Program development
- Program outcome evaluation and feedback
- Mental health recovery services
- Empowering clients in the process and outcome of recovery
- Writing measurable goals linked to service outcomes
- Integrating and optimizing peer support services
- Individualized collaborative service planning
- Engaging families in support of services
- Staff training and implementation planning for evidence-based care
- Life skills assessment and training
- Using group interaction to enhance services
- Transferring treatment gains to new settings and maintaining them over time
- Conceptualizing and trouble-shooting treatment difficulties
- Diagnosis and its role in service planning
- Screening for mental health problems
- Clinical interviewing and therapy process skills
Implementing Evidence Based Practices
There is much talk in the mental health field about evidence-based practices. While evidence exists for many mental health practices, various scientific bodies have developed specific standards of evidence required for the designation of a practice as “evidence-based”(see Chambless et al., 1998; APA Division 12 Website on Research-Supported Psychological Treatments). The idea behind such standards is to disseminate those practices which have had significant and reliable effects on outcomes. Fulfilling the promise of such practices is challenging, in that one must preserve the potency of interventions amidst the demands of applied settings. Paralleling this process, development of a system for identifying and tracking valued outcomes provides important guideposts for effective practice.