2025 MERIT Institute Recovery Conference
The MERIT Institute will hold its first virtual Recovery Conference on Thursday, October 23 & Friday, October 24, 2025. The Conference will be hosted on Zoom. It will begin at 9am on Thursday and 10am on Friday, ending at 430pm EDT on both days. You are free to select the events you’d like to attend and are not required to be present for all presentations.
Presentations
Laura Faith, PhD, HSPP - Richard L. Roudebush VAMC (1.0 CE) Thursday, October 23 9:00-10:00am EDT
Meaning Making in Psychotherapy: Utilizing Narrative and Intersubjective Approaches
John Hanson Högberg, Licensed Psychologist - University of Gothenburg Psychiatric Institute, Sweden (1.0 CE) Thursday, October 23 10:15-11:15am EDT
Metacognition in Opioid Maintenance Patients
Bethany Leonhardt, PsyD, HSPP - Sandra Eskenazi Mental Health Center, Indiana University School of Medicine (1.0 CE) Thursday, October 23 11:30am-12:30pm EDT
Metacognitive Reflection and Insight Therapy for Early Psychosis: Adaptations and Insights
Yael Holoschitz, MD & Deborah Cabaniss, MD - Columbia Psychiatry, New York State Psychiatric Institute (1.0 CE) Thursday, October 23 1:00-2:00pm EDT
Mourning & Psychosis: Finding Connections Between Recovery Frameworks and Psychoanalytic Theory
Melissa Uehling, PhD - Emory University (1.0 CE) Thursday, October 23 2:15-3:15pm EDT
Creating Shared Realities in Psychosis Treatment: An Ethnographic Study of the Clinician-patient Relationship
Pegah Seif, MD - Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School (1.0 CE) Thursday, October 23 3:30-4:30pm EDT
Does Insight Improve During the Course of Psychosis?
Ron Unger, LCSW - Center for Family Development (1.5 CE) Friday, October 24 10:00-11:30am EDT
A Compassionate Approach to Working with Distressing Voices
Jeremy Ridenour, PsyD, ABPP - Austen Riggs Center, Erikson Institute for Education, Research, & Advocacy (1.0 CE) Friday, October 24 11:45am-12:45pm EDT
Shame and Stigma in the Psychotherapy for Psychosis
2025 MERIT Institute Annual Business Meeting Friday, October 24 1:00pm-2:00pm EDT
All members (including those who received 2026 membership with their registration) are encouraged to attend and discuss the work done in the last year, future directions, ways to get involved, and hear from each of the MERIT Institute committees about their ongoing endeavors. During the business meeting, we will also be honoring this year's recipients of the Paul Lysaker Research Award.
Evan Myers, PhD - Boston Medical Center (1.0 CE) Friday, October 24 2:15pm-3:15pm EDT
Disorganization and Disintegration in Schizophrenia: Metacognitive Capacity and Speech Content Across Levels of Conceptual Disorganization
Ashley Schnakenberg Martin, PhD - Yale University School of Medicine, VA Connecticut (1.0 CE) Friday, October 24 3:30pm-4:30pm EDT
Promoting Self-directed Recovery from Psychosis Through Group-based Metacognitive Reflection and Insight Therapy (MERITg) and Implications for Future Research
Continuing Education
The Indiana Psychological Association (IPA) has graciously agreed to collaborate on Continuing Education credits. IPA is approved by the Indiana State Psychology Board and Indiana Behavioral Health Board to provide Category 1 continuing education for psychologists, LSW, LCSW, LMFT, LMHC, LMFTA, LCAC and LAC. The Indiana Psychological Association maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Licensees must judge the program’s relevance to their professional practice. All presentations (other than the Business Meeting) will be Category I CE eligible with a total of 10.5 CEs available.
American Psychological Association rules require that credit be given only to those who attend the entire workshop and complete evaluations for each individual session. Those arriving to the workshop more than 15 minutes after the scheduled start time or leaving early will not receive CE credits. Partial credit cannot be given.
If you are not licensed in Indiana, please check your state's CE requirements to ensure IPA sponsored CEs are approved.
Registration and Continuing Education Fees
- MERIT Institute Members (Professional and Student) - Free
- Non-Members - $75 (includes 2026 MERIT Institute membership)
- Indiana Psychological Association members - $55
- Continuing Education (up to 10.5 CEs available) - $125*
*Please note that this is an additional fee if you would like to receive Continuing Education credit.
MERIT Institute and Indiana Psychological Association members must use the code provided by your organization in order to access the discounted rates.
We are committed to making the Recovery Conference accessible to everyone who wishes to attend. If you are experiencing financial hardship or have accommodation needs, please contact the MERIT Institute Programming Committee.
All MERIT Institute programming is provided at no cost to student members. Students are asked to apply for free membership in order to qualify.