Sascha Altman DuBrul, MSW


Education

Silberman School of Social Work, New York, NY

Masters of Social Work, Clinical Degree, June 2016

 

Prescott College, Prescott, AZ

Bachelor of Arts, Psychology/Human Development, 2012

Training Certificates

Internal Family Systems Level 1 Training Program, Menlo Park, California, 2019

Introductory Intensive in Dialogic Practice The Institute for Dialogic Practice, NYC, 2016

Intentional Peer Support Teacher Training Burlington, Vermont, 2016

 

Needs Adapted Treatment Model (NATM) Introductory Training. Parachute Program Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), NYC 2016

 

Alternatives to Suicide Facilitator Training  Western Mass Recovery Learning Community   Northhampton, MA 2015

Intentional Peer Support Level 1 Training Berkeley, California 2014

 

Somatics and Trauma Certification Generative Somatics Oakland, California 2013

Drama Therapy For Therapists  Armond Volkas  Berkeley, California 2013

Gestalt Awareness Practice   Esalen Institute, 2012

Hatha Yoga Teachers Training Sivananda 2009


 

Selected Publications

DuBrul, S. A., & Delman, J. (2018). Creating High Integrity Peer Support in Early Psychosis Programs.

 

DuBrul, S. A. & McNamara, J. (2018). OnTrack Maps Workbook

Andersen, J., Altwies, J. B., Brown, C., Cole, K., Davidow, S., DuBrul, S. A., ... & Lewis, B. (2017). Mad Resistance/Mad Alternatives: Democratizing Mental Health Care. In Community Mental Health (pp. 47-64). Routledge.

 

DuBrul, S. A. (2017). OnTrackNY Peer Specialist Manual. Center for Practice Innovations.

 

DuBrul, S. A. (2016). Tearing Apart the DSM-5 in Social Work Class. Mad in America

 

DuBrul, S. A. (2015). Transformative Mutual Aid Practices (T-MAPs).

DuBrul, S. A. (2015). Los Creativamente Inadaptados – The Alternatives to Psychiatry Movement in Chile/Argentina.  

DuBrul, S. A. (2015) Cracks in the Biopsychiatric Armor: Redefining Mental Illness Together.

 

DuBrul, S. A.  (2014). The Icarus Project: A counter narrative for psychic diversity. Journal of Medical Humanities, 35(3), 257-271.

DuBrul, S. A. Maps to the Other Side: The Adventures of a Bipolar Cartographer. Microcosm Press. 2013.

 

The Icarus Project. (2010) Mindful Occupation: Rising Up Without Burning Out

 

DuBrul, S. A. (2010) Unraveling the Biopsychiatric Knot: A Future History of the Radical Mental Health Movement.

 

DuBrul, S. A. (2007) Gravel Angels and the Social Freak Brigade: The Icarus Project Comes to Virginia Tech.

 

The Icarus Project. (2006/2013) Friends Make the Best Medicine: A Guide to Creating Community Mental Health Support Networks.

 

The Icarus Project. (2004) Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness: A Reader and Roadmap of Bipolar Worlds.

 

DuBrul, S. A. (2002). The Bipolar World. San Francisco Bay Guardian.

 

Recent Papers Presented and Invited Lectures

DuBrul, S. (2019) First Episode Psychosis and Peer Support. ISPS Conference, Brighton, UK

DuBrul, S. (2019) Extreme Experiences – Mental Illnesses or Dangerous Gifts? ISPS UK Manchester, UK

DuBrul, S. (2019) Creative strategies for peer support engagement. Mind in Camden. London, UK.

DuBrul, S. (2018) Advancing Early Psychosis Clinical Care in the U.S.: Innovations from the Field “Youth/Peer Participation and Leadership in Early Intervention Services & Research: Towards the Future: What Makes a 'Peer'? Deconstructing Young People's Perceptions of Shared Experiences & Identities to Inform Peer Support in Early Intervention” IEPA Conference

DuBrul, S. (2018, October). What Makes a 'Peer'? Deconstructing Young People's Perceptions of Shared Experiences & Identities to Inform Peer Support in Early Intervention. In EARLY INTERVENTION IN PSYCHIATRY (Vol. 12, pp. 36-36). 

Hamilton, S., Santiago, R., Serrano, A & DuBrul, S. (2018) Peers as Change Agents: Building Our Collective Power, NYAPRS Annual conference, Ellenville, New York September 2018

 

Serrano, A., Lopez, L & DuBrul, S. (2018) The Power of Language: Observations, Ideas and a Journey NYAPRS Annual conference, Ellenville, New York September 2018

 

Serrano, A., Hamilton, S  & DuBrul, S. (2018) Opportunities and Challenges to Integrate Peers in Clinical Teams, ACT and Beyond, NYAPRS Annual conference, Ellenville, New York September 2018

 

DuBrul, S. (2018) Peer Workers as Change Agents: The Next Level of Mental Health Collaboration. 12th Annual Conference for NYC Working Peer Specialists, July 2018, New York, New York 2018.

 

DuBrul, S. (2018) A Celebration of Dangerous Gifts. Institute for the Development of Human Arts. June 2018

 

DuBrul, S. (2018) Culture Shift: The Power of Peer Workers on ACT Teams, An Introduction for Team Leaders, New York City Monthly Team Leader Meeting, New York City April 16, 2018

 

DuBrul, S. (2018) Understanding the Peer Workforce: An Important Discussion for Care Managers in New York State, New York State Case Management Coalition Annual Conference, Saratoga, New York on April 7, 2018

 

Thorning, H., Altman DuBrul, S., Lopez, L., Armingron, S., Hartlieb, K., Eteminan, S., Lipton, N. Peers on Assertive Community Treatment Teams: Convergent and Divergent Perceptions of Role, Interprofessional Collaboration and Community Integration. Paper presentation SSWR, 22th Annual conference Washington, DC., January 2018

 

DuBrul, S. & Serrano, A. ACT: Developing an Intentional Learning Community of ACT Team Peer Specialists, the ACT Institute OUR TURN Initiative Role-Based Training for New Shelter Teams December 7, 2017

 

DuBrul, S. Lopez, L. Ranaghan. D., & Thorning, H. (2017) Keeping our Peerness: Opportunities and Challenges to Integrate Peers in Clinical Teams, ACT and Beyond. NYAPRS Conference,

September 2017.

 

DuBrul, S. & Lopez, L. (2017) Focus on Peer Specialist/Clinician Working Relationships: The Next Level of Mental Health Collaboration. 11th Annual Conference for NYC Working Peer Specialists, July 2017.

 

“Engaging Young People in Coordinated Specialty Care for a Recent Onset of Psychosis: OnTrackNY’s Efforts to Integrate Peer Support in CSC Locally and Nationally” (With Nev Jones at ISPS) (2017)

“Developing and Implementing Radical Peer Support in Specialized Early Psychosis Programs” (2017)

“De-institutionalization and Self Determination” Institute for the Development of Human Arts (IDHA) (2017)

“Creative Collaborations in Uncertain Times: Transforming the Mental Health System While Holding Onto Our Visions” Independent Living Inc. (2016)

“The North American Mad Movement” Keynote Presentation at Hearing Voices World Congress Madrid, Spain (2015)

 

“Connecting the Dots” Disability Incarcerated Conference.  Berkeley, California (2015)

 

“Navigado el Espaco Entre Locura y Brillo.” Alternativas a la Psyciatria Conference  Santiago, Chile (2015)

 

“Mapas Locos.” Buenos Aires, Argentina (2014)

 

“Mad Maps: A Community Dialogue.” Bluestockings (2014)

 

Kent State  Keynote: “Navigating the Stigma Trap: Creating and New Language and Culture of Psychic Diversity” (2014)

 

“Wounded Healers and Social Workers” Sarah Lawrence School of Social Work Keynote Address (2014)

 

“The Icarus Project: Alternative Visions and Actions” Voices from the Emotional Underground Troy, NY (2014)

 

“Navigating Brilliance and Madness” (2014) Hunter College High School Ted Ex

 

Current Memberships

ISPS The International Society For Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis

http://www.isps.org/