E17: How BU’s Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation is Making a Difference

This episode provides a conversation with Dori Hutchinson, Director of Services at Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation (CPR) and a Clinical Associate Professor at Sargent College. Dr. Hutchinson shared how CPR helps students and people worldwide struggling with mental health to recover and develop resilience. Dori S. Hutchinson, Sc.D. has worked at the Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation at Boston University since 1984. Dr. Hutchinson has developed and implemented recovery-oriented service initiatives that assist people who have mental illnesses to assume their rightful roles as students, employees, residents and members of their communities. She provides training nationally to organizations and providers who wish to deliver recovery-oriented services and conduct relevant program evaluations. Dr. Hutchinson has worked more recently in developing mental health promotion services on campuses that assist students with serious mental illnesses to succeed in all domains of their lives as college students, as well as college suicide prevention programming that creates caring academic communities. About the Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation:  The Center is a research, training, and service organization dedicated to improving the lives of persons who have psychiatric disabilities. It offers a variety of wellness courses that support the treatment, rehabilitation, and recovery efforts of adults and college students alike. Over the last 40 years, the Center has helped to shift the paradigm in mental health services to a recovery orientation. The moderator of the podcast is Dr. Karen Jacobs ([email protected]), who is the Associate Dean, Digital Learning and Innovation, a Clinical Professor and the Program Director for the on-line post-professional doctorate in the occupational therapy program at Sargent College. Marial Williams ([email protected]), a Boston University entry-level occupational therapy doctoral student, composed the music for the podcast.