Speaker

Seth Arkush

Seth Arkush MSW, LCSW, MBA

Partner, Integrated Care Concepts

Seth Arkush earned his Master of Business Administration degree at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA, and obtained his clinical training at Fordham University where he earned his Master of Social Work degree. Soon thereafter, he earned his clinical social work license (LCSW). In addition to his psychotherapeutic work at ICCC, for the past 10 years Seth has worked clinically with: urban youth; as an in-home therapist for at-risk children and families; children and families in crisis through Children’s Mobile Response; and as the Clinical Specialist leading a team of therapists for Therapeutic Family Visitation Services serving families in the Division of Child Protection & Permanency system (formerly known as DYFS).

From the mid 1970s through the mid 1980s, Seth worked his way through college on a suicide and crisis hotline and in a youth services program that served runaway youths and their families. In his senior year, Seth wrote a grant that got funded to develop a men’s counseling program. After graduating, he worked for the Juvenile Division of the NJ Department of Corrections serving incarcerated youth. From the mid 1980s through the early 2000s, Seth held positions of increasing responsibility in corporate budgeting and financial analysis, and eventually became a consultant for at-risk companies.

Seth holds a post-graduate certification in Child/Adolescent Mental Health from Rutgers University and is a certified trainer of the Strengthening Families Program.

Seth's Presentations

keynote

An Integrated Mental Health Wellness Care Plan

Integrating the Caring Collaboratively

Join us for lunch to explore how integrated mental health care can work to create a care plan that is truly integrated and innovative in approaching whole person, whole body and mind wellness. A multi-disciplinary panel of approaches involving psychiatry, psychotherapy, eco therapy, trauma informed yoga, sand play, art therapy, and breath work will explore a case presentation together in a grand rounds format. The panel will be demonstrating a practice model that moves integrated mental health care, from the periphery of “complementary and alternative” to the front-line treatment of choice. An outpatient “plus” level of care, where an integrated mental health team works to provide a client multiple sessions per week working collaboratively with the client and each other.

The grand rounds format will be utilized, where a complex client presentation, including intersectionality as a key element, will be examined first though the individual lens of each discipline. Following will be an active discussion of how the team would work to synthesize a comprehensive and cohesive wellness plan building and complimenting on the work of each discipline.

Together is always more, there are so many parts to the human experience, it is easy to become overwhelmed when working alone in support of a client so desperate for recovery. The panel will demonstrate the profound benefits of working collaboratively, where traditional western medicine meets holistic and expressive approaches under the same sky and in the same healing universe. The human condition is multiple, no symptom or suffering happens without many conditions also being present- our approaches need to mirror this truth effectively.

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