Teach Recovery
Learn To Help People With Mental Illness Lead a Rewarding, Productive Life.
Teach Recovery
We teach about cognition, motivation and behavioral approaches to help people with severe mental illness lead productive lives. Our educational modules are self-paced, engaging and informative.
About Us
Teach Recovery aims to provide mental health professionals with information about cognitive health in people with psychiatric disorders. There is increasing recognition that cognition is vital to optimal independent functioning, but little information about how to best address it in clinical practice. Clinicians want to be able to recognize cognitive problems and their impact among people with psychiatric illness. They want a strong foundation of knowledge for successful implementation of recovery-oriented cognitive interventions.
Teach Recovery was designed for mental health professionals from the fields of psychiatry, psychology, nursing, social work, counseling and occupational therapy who are involved in the clinical care of people with psychiatric disorders. Learners will have access to a range of training materials that are firmly based on research and years of clinical expertise. By using a web-based platform, learners across the globe will have access to an informative, illustrative and interactive set of courses that bridge clinical science and clinical practice, Teach Recovery empowers professionals and mental health agencies to integrate effective cognitive intervention approaches with routine clinic practices, and thus optimize mental health service outcomes for the clientele they serve.
Our Mission
Our mission is to provide mental health professionals ongoing access to information so they can gain knowledge about addressing cognitive health as it relates to psychiatric recovery. Through education, Teach Recovery empowers the mental health professional to change lives.
Our Team
Alice Medalia, PhD
- Professor of Medical Psychology; Director of Psychiatric Rehabilitation
Tiffany Herlands, PsyD
- Clinical Director, The Lieber Clinic; Director of Rehabilitation, Columbia University Psychiatry, Eastside; Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Alice Saperstein, PhD
- Writer
Course 1: Cognitive Dysfunction in People with Psychotic Disorders
Course 1 focuses on defining areas of cognitive dysfunction in people with psychotic disorders and helping learners to recognize how problems manifest.
Course 2: Cognitive Remediation for People with Psychiatric Disorders
The focus of Course 2 is on clinical approaches to addressing cognitive dysfunction across a range of psychiatric disorders.
Course 3: Executive Functioning Training
In this lecture you will learn about a CBT oriented group therapy to target a set of cognitive skills called Executive Functions.
Teach recovery is a non-profit educational platform provided through The Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University Irving Medical Center with generous funding from Frank and Patricia Zarb.