Speaker Meetings
Six times each year, we present bi-monthly speaker meetings on a wide variety of topics. These meetings are a great way to get out and meet others with similar family situations. You do not need to be a NAMI member to attend these free speaker meetings.
We appreciate any help with set-up, snacks and clean-up.
Please contact our office at 831-824-0406 or anastasia@namiscc.org
Please contact our office at 831-824-0406 or anastasia@namiscc.org
Speaker Meeting - Ask the Doctor
Wednesday, Sept 19, 2018
6:30 to 7:00 Meet and Greet
7:00 to 8:30 Program & Q/A
Live Oak Senior Center
1777 Capitola Road
near 17th Avenue
6:30 to 7:00 Meet and Greet
7:00 to 8:30 Program & Q/A
Live Oak Senior Center
1777 Capitola Road
near 17th Avenue
Family members, individuals with a mental illness, healthcare providers, and all other community members are welcome and encouraged to attend. No cost.
Ask the Doctor
Come to learn and ask your questions of Dr Rique Brister, psychiatrist.
De-mystifying brain chemistry - “It’s just a wave. It’s not the water!”
Understanding how different chemistry affects perception and behavior helps to banish forever the stigma behind these imbalances and the belief if you have this different chemistry you are somehow less than. Dr. Brister helps people strive for true happiness; not just dealing with this glitch. To quote Jimmie Dale’s county western song “It’s just a wave. It’s not the water.”
This talk will begin with dopamine and hallucinations and will take other questions from the audience.
About Rique Brister, M.D.
Rique Brister, M.D. studied psychobiology in grad school then switched to medicine to become a psychiatrist. She started practicing in 1984, focusing on biochemical changes with depression, anxiety, bipolar, OCD and schizophrenia. Dr. Brister is very familiar with family struggles regarding a loved one going through these episodes. She was a foster mom for 12 yrs to traumatized children and her biological child has OCD. Dr. Brister also has a sister with Bipolar. Dr, Brister is currently the Medical Director at Good Samaritan Hospital, former Medical Director at Telecare in Santa Cruz. She also has done addiction work, inpatient, outpatient and partial hospitalization.
We appreciate any help with set-up, snacks and clean-up.
Please contact our office at 831-824-0406 or anastasia@namiscc.org
Ask the Doctor
Come to learn and ask your questions of Dr Rique Brister, psychiatrist.
De-mystifying brain chemistry - “It’s just a wave. It’s not the water!”
Understanding how different chemistry affects perception and behavior helps to banish forever the stigma behind these imbalances and the belief if you have this different chemistry you are somehow less than. Dr. Brister helps people strive for true happiness; not just dealing with this glitch. To quote Jimmie Dale’s county western song “It’s just a wave. It’s not the water.”
This talk will begin with dopamine and hallucinations and will take other questions from the audience.
About Rique Brister, M.D.
Rique Brister, M.D. studied psychobiology in grad school then switched to medicine to become a psychiatrist. She started practicing in 1984, focusing on biochemical changes with depression, anxiety, bipolar, OCD and schizophrenia. Dr. Brister is very familiar with family struggles regarding a loved one going through these episodes. She was a foster mom for 12 yrs to traumatized children and her biological child has OCD. Dr. Brister also has a sister with Bipolar. Dr, Brister is currently the Medical Director at Good Samaritan Hospital, former Medical Director at Telecare in Santa Cruz. She also has done addiction work, inpatient, outpatient and partial hospitalization.
We appreciate any help with set-up, snacks and clean-up.
Please contact our office at 831-824-0406 or anastasia@namiscc.org
Click here to view materials and recordings of past Speaker Meetings.
Recording of Dual Diagnosis
Recording of: BEFORE, DURING AND AFTER CRISIS
Presented by:
Pam Rogers-Wyman, Adult Chief of Services, Santa Cruz County Behavioral Health
Family members, individuals with mental illness, health care providers and all other community members are welcome and encouraged to attend at no cost.
People with a serious mental illness often lead lives characterized by recurrent, significant crises. These crises are not the inevitable consequences of mental disability, but rather represent the combined impact of a host of additional factors, including lack of access to essential services and supports, poverty, unstable housing, coexisting substance use, other health problems, discrimination and victimization. Communities across the country struggle with these issues.
At our next Speaker’s Meeting, Pam Rogers-Wyman will offer strategies and services available before, during and after a crisis. We will learn about what is available now, plans for the future, as well as a wish list of ways to fill the gaps if funding became available. Pam will also describe Laura’s Law and other Assisted Outpatient solutions..
People with a serious mental illness often lead lives characterized by recurrent, significant crises. These crises are not the inevitable consequences of mental disability, but rather represent the combined impact of a host of additional factors, including lack of access to essential services and supports, poverty, unstable housing, coexisting substance use, other health problems, discrimination and victimization. Communities across the country struggle with these issues.
At our next Speaker’s Meeting, Pam Rogers-Wyman will offer strategies and services available before, during and after a crisis. We will learn about what is available now, plans for the future, as well as a wish list of ways to fill the gaps if funding became available. Pam will also describe Laura’s Law and other Assisted Outpatient solutions..
