Beyond Well Science- Alita Taylor, What is Open Dialogue?

Beyond Well Science is focused on mental health providers and improving the standard of care for people in crisis. BWS is hosted by five-time Emmy award-winning Journalist and Author, Sheila Hamilton     In this week’s episode, BWS talks with Alita Taylor, founder of Open Dialogue Washington. Alita has a fourteen year background working in emergency psychiatry.   Taylor practices psychotherapy in Washington, remaining licensed in California, holding a Masters of Arts in Clinical Psychology with an emphasis in Marriage and Family therapy from Pepperdine University. The Open Dialogue approach is both a philosophical/theoretical approach to people experiencing a mental health crisis and their families/networks and a system of care, developed in Western Lapland in Finland over the last thirty years. BWScience talks with Alita about how Open Dialogue teams work to help those involved in crisis to be together and to engage in dialogue. 

Beyond Well Science is focused on mental health providers and improving the standard of care for people in crisis. BWS is hosted by five-time Emmy award-winning Journalist and Author, Sheila Hamilton     In this week’s episode, BWS talks with Alita Taylor, founder of Open Dialogue Washington. Alita has a fourteen year background working in emergency psychiatry.   Taylor practices psychotherapy in Washington, remaining licensed in California, holding a Masters of Arts in Clinical Psychology with an emphasis in Marriage and Family therapy from Pepperdine University. The Open Dialogue approach is both a philosophical/theoretical approach to people experiencing a mental health crisis and their families/networks and a system of care, developed in Western Lapland in Finland over the last thirty years. BWScience talks with Alita about how Open Dialogue teams work to help those involved in crisis to be together and to engage in dialogue.