MERIT FREE MONTHLY LIVE WEBINARS
Metacognitive Reflection and Insight Therapy (MERIT) is a form of integrative individual psychotherapy that seeks to assist adults diagnosed with psychosis to make sense and meaning of the challenges and possibilities in their lives and to find ways to manage these and direct their own recovery.
MERIT supports people's recovery by helping them make sense of their experiences and discovering a sense of personal agency and self-determination. The MERIT clinician assesses the person's metacognitive capacity and offers interventions that help in improving metacognitive capacity.
We wish to invite practitioners working in the field of mental health to join us for a monthly group discussion, during which we will invite eminent clinicians who work from a MERIT framework, to share their learnings and expertise in promoting recovery in people with serious mental illness.
MERIT Monthly Live Webinars
Monthly Live WebinarsÂ
These webinars are sponsored through the generosity of Richmond Fellowship QueenslandÂ
Date:Â 1st Thursday of each month.Â
Time:Â 9.30 am to 10.30 am or 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm (AEST) Brisbane time. Times may vary depending on local and international presenter's time zone.
Each month, we will invite different experts to provide input on the essential elements of MERIT and engage in a general discussion of its applications.
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MERIT Free Live Webinars - 2025 Dates
Date: 27 March 2025
Time: 9.30 - 10.30 am (AEST)Brisbane time
Topic: Eliciting the Agenda in Relation to MERIT
Presenter: Jay Hamm PsyD
Jay Hamm, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist at Sandra Eskenazi Mental Health Center in Indianapolis, IN. He provides MERIT to adults diagnosed with serious mental illness and actively trains graduate students and community mental health workers in MERIT. He is the author of more than 50 peer-reviewed articles and several book chapters on metacognition, MERIT, recovery, and psychotherapy supervision
Date: 1 May 2025
Time: 9.30 - 10.30 am Brisbane time (AEST)
Topic: Philosophical Foundations Informing MERIT
Presenter: Dr John Lysaker, Professor of Philosophy at Emory University
John Lysaker is a Chair in the Department of Philosophy at Emory University. His research explores topics in aesthetics, ethics, metaphilosophy, philosophical psychology, and the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson. His current projects focus on the nature of philosophical writing, the sense of self in schizophrenia, Brian Eno's 'Music for Airports,' and the nature of friendship. More
