When a Loved One Won’t Seek Mental Health Treatment: How to Promote Recovery and Reclaim Your Family’s Well-Being

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Tuesday, June 11, 2024 1:00 pm

- 2:00 pm ET

Drs. Alec Pollard and Melanie VanDyke explain why some people behave in ways that are incompatible with recovery and how the family’s response sometimes makes the situation worse and offered suggestions for how to deal effectively with a psychiatrically impaired loved one who won’t seek help. Psychiatric illness afflicts 20% of the population and its impact often extends well beyond the individual diagnosed. Problems related to anxiety or depression in one person can jeopardize the physical health, psychological well-being, and socioeconomic stability of the entire family. The burden is especially difficult for families when the impaired individual appears to be doing little or nothing to get better.

Drs. VanDyke and Pollard are co-authors of the recently published book, When a Loved One Won't Seek Mental Health Treatment: How to Promote Recovery and Reclaim Your Family's Well-Being (New Harbinger Publications).

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Presenter(s) Biography

Melanie VanDyke, PhD

Melanie VanDyke, PhD is a licensed psychologist at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and the Center for OCD & Anxiety-Related Disorders at Saint Louis Behavioral Medicine Institute. Dr. VanDyke specializes in treating anxiety-related disorders such as social anxiety, panic, hoarding, and OCD. She was awarded Missouri Psychological Association’s Psychologist of the Year in 2023 and serves as the Chair of the Evidence-Based Practice Committee. Dr. VanDyke is the Missouri Representative to the American Psychological Association’s Council of Representatives. She was awarded Special Recognition for her contributions to the Public Education Committee for the Anxiety and Depression Association of America. Dr. VanDyke has authored numerous research articles, book chapters, and educational materials for professionals, patients, and families. She was a co-investigator on the family well-being consultation research project and a co-author of the newly released book, When a Loved One Won’t Seek Mental Health Treatment: How to Promote Recovery and Reclaim your Family’s Well-Being. Dr. VanDyke supports interprofessional healthcare professionals through training, consultation, and supervision.

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C. Alec Pollard, PhD

Dr. Pollard is Founding Director of the Center for OCD and Anxiety-Related Disorders at Saint Louis Behavioral Medicine Institute and Professor Emeritus of Family and Community Medicine at Saint Louis University School of Medicine. He is a licensed psychologist who works with a range of obsessive-compulsive and anxiety-related disorders, with a special interest in obstacles that inhibit the pursuit of recovery or interfere with effective participation in treatment. He is on the Scientific and Clinical Advisory Board of the International OCD Foundation and chairs the organization’s Training Subcommittee, including a national training initiative called the Behavior Therapy Training Institute. Dr. Pollard is former chair of the Clinical Advisory Board of the Anxiety and Depression Association of America and has authored over 100 publications, including 3 books – The Agoraphobia Workbook, Dying of Embarrassment: Help for Social Anxiety & Phobia, and When a Loved One Won’t Seek Mental Health Treatment: How to Promote Recovery and Reclaim Your Family’s Well-Being.

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