Master Clinician Series 2025: April: Metacognitive Reflection and Insight Therapy (MERIT): A recovery-oriented psychotherapy framework for working with individuals experiencing psychosis

Friday, April 18, 2025, 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM, A Live Webinar

Recent research has suggested that recovery from serious mental illness (SMI) is a complex process that involves recapturing a coherent sense of self and personal agency. This poses important challenges to existing treatment models. While current evidence-based practices are often designed to target symptoms and specific skill deficits, they often are less equipped to address issues of subjectivity and self-experience. In this presentation, we will discuss Metacognitive Insight and Reflection Therapy (MERIT), a treatment approach that is explicitly concerned with self-experience in psychosis. This approach uses the term metacognition to describe those cognitive processes that underpin self-experience and posits that addressing metacognitive deficits will aid persons diagnosed with SMI in making sense of the challenges they face and deciding how to effectively manage them. This presentation will discuss a conceptualization of metacognition and its role in SMI and recovery. We will then present an overview of the MERIT practice framework, offering practical considerations for incorporating MERIT into existing clinical practices.

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Full Course Bundle Affiliate (12 sessions) $1,310.00
Full Course Bundle Non-Affiliate (12 sessions) $1,545.00
Affiliate Individual Session (each session) $120.00
Non-Affiliate Individual Session (each session) $140.00 

AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (4.00 hours), APA Continuing Education credits (4.00 hours), ASWB Continuing Education (ACE) credits (4.00 hours), Non-Physician Participation Credit (4.00 hours)

1. Recognize metacognitive deficits in individuals experiencing psychosis
2. Explain the role of metacognition in promoting recovery from psychosis
3. Summarize theory and practice components of MERIT
4. Describe similarities and differences between participants’ existing therapy approach and the integrative framework of MERIT
5. Incorporate MERIT elements into their existing clinical practice.

In support of improving patient care, Stanford Medicine is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. 

Credit Designation 
American Medical Association (AMA) 
Stanford Medicine designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 4.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM.  Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. 

ASWB Approved Continuing Education Credit (ACE) – Social Work Credit 
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, Stanford Medicine is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. Social workers completing this activity receive 4.0 general continuing education credits. 

American Psychological Association (APA) 
Continuing Education (CE) credits for psychologists are provided through the co-sponsorship of the American Psychological Association (APA) Office of Continuing Education in Psychology (CEP). The APA CEP Office maintains responsibility for the content of the programs.

Cancellation Policy
We will accept full cancellations up to 7 days prior to the start of the workshop. Please send cancellation requests to [email protected]

Stanford University School of Medicine reserves the right to cancel or postpone this program if necessary.

Accessibility Statement
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Cultural and Linguistic Competency
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For activity related questions, please contact
     Name: Aline Rocha
     Title: Training Manager 
     Email: [email protected]

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Mitigation of Relevant Financial Relationships

Stanford Medicine adheres to the Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education.

There are no relevant financial relationships with ACCME-defined ineligible companies for anyone who was in control of the content of this activity, except those listed in the table below. All of the relevant financial relationships listed for these individuals have been mitigated.