Paradise Ballroom ABC

Speaker(s): Susie Arbo

Description:

“Living Your Best Life!” is an energizing and motivating presentation, focusing on how to be the best version of yourself you can be. Whether you work in community mental health, a substance abuse field, a school, private practice, a prison, or a hospital setting, “Living Your Best Life” is designed to help even the most seasoned clinicians and administration professionals continue to learn to care for themselves mentally and emotionally and find joy in their career.  

This motivating session will focus on self care, time management skills, stress reduction, and learning to find a balance between your work and home life.  With the demand being so high since the pandemic in mental health professions, we don’t want to see our fellow colleges burnout.   This presentation will give attendees valuable tools they can use immediately in their professional and personal life, which in turn, not only helps themselves, but also benefits the people they live and work with.  This is an empowering presentation that will inspire mental health professionals to feel positive about their life and rekindle and enhance their passion for this caring profession. 

Objectives

• After participating in the session, attendees will have learned 10 self care strategies.  
• After participating in this session, attendees will learn 5 coping strategies to manage stress and their time effectively.  
• After participating in this session, attendees will learn 5 techniques to help them identify balance between personal and their professional life. 

Room Parasol I

Speaker(s): Multiple

Description:

Stop by anytime during this session time to ask DMH questions.  Answers will be from experts in the following departments.

• Children’s Services
• Community Operations
• Support Services
• Integrated Care
• Operations
• Prevention and Crisis Services
• Quality and Compliance
• Recovery Services
• Research & Data Analysis

Paradise Ballroom A

Speaker(s): Nesbitt, Donna, BA

Description:

This presentation serves to examine the unique intricacies regarding substance use and recovery among the LGBTQIA+ population. This includes examining specific contributing factors to the prevalence of substance use disorders in the community, barriers to receiving proper treatment, and protocols agencies can implement within their own programs so as to better serve high-risk individuals. The hope is to increase competency regarding inclusivity and guide in providing an affirmative space so that it may encourage others to seek help.

Objectives

•  Define the various subgroups within the LGBTQIA+ population.
• Review the history of the LGBTQIA+ population.
• Explore contributing factors to substance use disorders among the LGBTQIA+ community.
• Identify barriers to accessing effective and competent treatment programs for recovery.
• Develop agency protocols aimed at increasing inclusion, affirmation, and retention of LGBTQIA+ clients.

Room Wingate 60-61

Speaker(s):

Description

In child sexual abuse cases the Non-offending Partners are frequently omitted from the formal assessment process, although they play a major role in the safety and psychological well-being of the victims and their siblings. In general, they are referred for parenting classes, parenting capacity assessments, and/or counseling, without a formal assessment of their knowledge, role, and attitudes regarding the sexual abuse.

Objectives

• • Discuss the decision-making progress of the nonoffender.
  • Review the formal assessment process
  • Apply information to case planning and treatment referrals

Room Wingate 62-63

Speaker(s):

Description

This presentation will focus on not only ASAM implementation with success, barriers and challenge discussion but also on how agency electronic health record enhancements have improved clinical experience, supervision monitoring and data entry.

Objectives

• • Discuss ASAM to assist each other
  • Discuss EHR that can help with ideas on how it can assist staff
  • Assist other agencies with ideas on clinical supervision on ASAM

Room Nautical Wheeler

Speaker(s):

Description

Robert is the author of “The Life Recovery Method: Autism Treatment From a Trauma Perspective” and in the last 7 years he has discovered much about regulation and IDD in general. Often both emotion and sensory input come as energy signals that we feel in the body. The inability to process these signals accurately causes confusion and drives the individual into the Limbic region of the brain. Learning to aid in the processing of these signals and using proven techniques we can support individuals with IDD in a fuller, more regulating way.

Objectives

• • Describe the areas of the brain that drive meltdown responses to stimulus
  • Identify at least 3 methods of helping to calm the brain once escalated
  • Utilize methods of practice to begin rewiring the brain
  • Describe the benefits of bilateral stimulation in the brain

Room Paradise Ballroom B

Speaker(s):

Description

Suicide is the number one cause of death in US jails and the third cause in prisons. Inmates are among the highest risk group for suicide worldwide.
Suicide is a major public health issue. We have the highest rate of incarceration among the developed countries. Only 4.4 % of people in the world live in the US. However, 22.4 % of all incarcerated people in the world are in the US jails and prisons.
The emotional and financial consequences and legal ramifications of suicide are staggering. Millions of dollars are paid out to the survivors.
How can deaths by suicide behind bars be prevented; how can we save lives; how can the stakeholders of jails and prisons avoid lawsuits?
This course is for the correctional officers, mental health professionals such as psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, physicians, nurses, therapists, and mental health workers, who work in these facilities and come into direct contact with inmates who could potentially take their lives. In my view, these professionals are the eyes and ears of suicide prevention.
The course is also directed to administrators such as Sheriffs, Wardens, Chief administrators of prisons, shift commanders, trainers and policymakers.
This highly informative, instructive and inspiring course pulls from my 20 years of clinical experience, research on suicide in correctional settings and expert consultations on lawsuits.

Objectives

• • Discuss the what, how and why of inmate suicide
  • Separate myths from facts of custodial suicide
  • Identify risk and protective factors to prevent suicide and save lives
  • Describe how to perform proper suicide screening and suicide risk assessment
  • Describe ways on how to be the eyes and ears of suicide prevention, monitoring, and treatment of suicidal inmate
  • Discover how to navigate policies, procedures and practices to avoid lawsuits
  • Review basic principles of legal decision-making in medical negligence and deliberate indifference lawsuits

Room Parasol II

Speaker(s):

Description

When we think about self-care we often visualize vacations, spa days, dinner out, and maybe even that morning cup of coffee. While these strategies are important, in this presentation we will go deeper. Let’s talk about strategies to improve your work day, advocate for your needs, prevent burnout and fatigue, and recover from the difficult and essential work that you do.

Objectives

• • Define burnout and compassion fatigue.
  • Discuss the detrimental effects of burnout and compassion fatigue on mental health care professionals.
  • Describe key strategies for mindfulness and flow state.
  • Identify a personalized essential self-care plan to prevent and work-related distress.
  • Utilize tools to advocate for wellbeing in your workplace.

Room Paradise Ballroom C

Speaker(s):

Description

This presentation focuses on treatment and diagnosis of individuals with schizophrenia starting with a description of the schizophrenia spectrum. The presentation uses real examples to help clarify the schizophrenia spectrum and how to diagnose individuals. The end of the presentation includes an interactive segment with three fabricated case examples to provide the listeners with the opportunity to come up with assessment questions in order to reach an accurate diagnosis.

Objectives

• • Define the schizophrenia spectrum.
  • Discuss the importance of communication and wrap-around services.
  • Discuss the meaning of success to clients.
  • Practice assessing and diagnosing clients.
  • Take an empathy-first approach with clients.

Room Paradise Ballroom A

Speaker(s):

Description

Behavioral Activation is a psychological treatment approach that helps us connect with and routinely involve ourselves in personally rewarding activities. Many mental health problems can make it challenging to concentrate on, engage in, and appreciate positive experiences. This is sometimes called “reward dysregulation” by scientists and may involve parts of the brain that process emotions. First developed and still used as a very effective treatment strategy for depression, clinical research now shows that this approach can help with a range of mental health concerns such as PTSD, anxiety, chronic pain, eating disorders, distressed relationships, along with others.

Objectives

• • Describe the rationale for behavioral activation as a transdiagnostic change process
  • Explain the culturally – responsive features of behavioral activation.
  • Identify within-session strategies to improve effectiveness of BA.

Room Paradise Ballroom B

Speaker(s):

Description

Ethics are paramount in guiding professional practice. There is a broad understanding of how ethics guide practice with clients; however, that is not the sole focus of professional codes of ethics. The focus is often multi-pronged, and can be just as varied as our approaches with clients, in the workplace, and within systems. The focus of this presentation will be on the ethics of competence. How as professionals do we navigate being a practitioner, a peer, a supervisor, an employee, and the many other things that will be asked of us in our roles? Understanding how competence intersects with all of these roles will better prepare you to approach your work from a new perspective.

Objectives

• • Define the ethics for various professionals as they relate to competence
  • Describe how competence makes us more effective in our various roles
  • Discuss how our practice affects others
  • Identify the traits and skills that lend to competent practice
  • Utilize multiple techniques to improve professional competence

Room Paradise C

Speaker(s):

Description

This presentation will first provide a definition of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and discuss relevant research on the association between exposure to multiple ACEs and numerous negative physical, emotional and mental health outcomes in adulthood. The presentation will examine exposure to ACEs through the lens of the Family Stress and Resilience theoretical framework. This approach highlights the role and value of enhancing protective factors to promote resiliency in the context of exposure to ACEs. This presentation will describe modern approaches to addressing the impact of adverse childhood experiences and discuss prevention and intervention implications for clinical and mental health practitioners.

Objectives

• • Define adverse childhood experiences (ACEs)
  • Describe the negative effects of exposure to ACEs in adolescence and adulthood
  • Identify relevant protective factors to the harmful effects of exposure to ACEs
  • Describe approaches for addressing the effects of ACEs

Room Parasol I

Speaker(s): Multiple

Description:

Stop by anytime during this session time to ask DMH questions.  Answers will be from experts in the following departments.

• Children’s Services
• Community Operations
• Support Services
• Integrated Care
• Operations
• Prevention and Crisis Services
• Quality and Compliance
• Recovery Services
• Research & Data Analysis

Room Wingate 60-61

Speaker(s):

Description

Dr. Robert J. Meyers and Jane Ellen Smith’s CRAFT (Community Reinforcement and Family Training) has long-been known for its positive outcome measures when executed in individual and family settings as it pertains. We, at IMF Counseling in mid-Missouri, have been offering and facilitating the CRAFT approach in a group setting for the past three years with excellent results.
Mimicking a family system, the CRAFT approach is easily adaptable to a group therapy setting, providing not only education and behavioral strategies for loved ones, but real-time support to participants; this increases the quality of life for all involved.
This presentation will equip learners with tools, anecdotal examples, and a shortened mock group session so they can better facilitate the CRAFT model in their respective settings.

Objectives

• • Identify the three main goals of the CRAFT model
  • Practice the differences in executing CRAFT strategies in a group setting vs. individual therapy
  • Connect with other participants around the strengths and weaknesses of group therapy in general

Room Wingate 62-63

Speaker(s):

Description

Engage in reflection of conceiving, believing, and achieving Simple Dreams. Begin to recognize the power of small victories in establishing life satisfaction.

Objectives

• • Mindfully identify a Simple Dream with focus and clarity.
  • Recognize 3 constructs effecting achievement.
  • Review 3 neurological elements supporting positive changes.
  • Define meaningful processes and self-talk.

Room Nautical Wheeler

Speaker(s):

Description

This session will outline the efforts of DMH’s Office of Disaster Services to promote preparedness for individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. The new preparedness guidebooks for individuals and providers will be introduced and demonstrated, showing the easy steps that will lead to completing individualized plans.
The presenter will also discuss the differential responses of those with I/DDs to emergencies.

Objectives

• • Discover the Preparedness Guidebooks for individuals with I/DDs and Providers
  • Introduce the Guidebooks into emergency planning in all settings
  • Consider the reactions of individuals with I/DDs to emergencies

Room Paradise Ballroom B

Speaker(s):

Description

In 2022, approximately 50,000 Americans tragically lost their lives to suicide, and a concerning majority—over half—chose to end their lives with firearms. Recognizing the gravity of this issue, the U.S. Surgeon General underscores the importance of integrating lethal means safety into a comprehensive public health strategy aimed at preventing suicides. Addressing firearm suicide prevention in rural Missouri poses a unique challenge, as communities deeply entrenched in shooting sports view interventions as potentially antagonistic. Embarking on a groundbreaking initiative, the Safer Homes Collaborative, supported by grant funding from the Missouri Foundation for Health, unites the expertise of the Missouri Institute of Mental Health and the Family Counseling Center. Together, they are dedicated to elevating awareness about lethal means safety strategies that can delay, deter, and prevent suicide.

Objectives

• • Gain a profound understanding of the novelty inherent in a learning grant, specifically aimed at exploring innovative methods to integrate lethal means safety into a comprehensive public health approach to suicide prevention.
  • Explain how the collection of qualitative data is undertaken to assess and appraise the evolving mental frameworks of stakeholders actively involved in firearm suicide prevention.
  • Detail the insights gained in crafting messaging and media campaigns when tackling sensitive topics, emphasizing the lessons learned in navigating challenging subject matter.
  • Acknowledge the insights gained, barriers encountered during implementation, and the proactive approach taken to transform challenges into opportunities and reshape strategies.

Room Parasol II

Speaker(s):

Description

This presentation is interactive and includes background information on the concept of self-awareness and how we can use both internal and external self-awareness to create a purposeful life.

Objectives

• • Identify the benefits of self-awareness.
  • Discuss ways to enhance your personal self-awareness.
  • Utilize effective ways to develop external self-awareness.
  • Explore your personal potential.

Room Paradise Ballroom C

Speaker(s):

Description

You will get to see and feel your client’s dynamics and issues in a whole new perspective through experiential techniques, visual displays, metaphoric imagery, and playful exercises that reveal important and often hidden dynamics. The use of emotional space and body posturing may create emotional sculptures that suggest what needs and directions your client may require. What is exciting is that the visual or metaphoric images are undeniable and extremely beneficial for awareness and growth.

Objectives

• • Reveal and utilize emotional spacing effectively.
  • Describe the benefit and use of visual props to illustrate dynamics and stresses.
  • Utilize metaphoric imagery exercises to playfully reveal powerful emotions and dynamics in relationships.
  • Utilize experiential techniques and exercises for therapeutic growth and genuine changes.

Room Leeward 74-75

Speaker(s):

Description

This presentation will review the historical evolution of corrections based SU treatment services in Missouri, the current transitioning and development of these services, and the future expectations for these services, to include the important role of MAT.

Objectives

• • Describe the historical evolution of SU treatment interventions in Missouri Corrections
  • Identify the current status of these services
  • Describe the important role of MAT within these services
  • Identify the present behavioral health model focus being implemented within corrections-based services

Room Paradise Ballroom A

Speaker(s):

Dr. Naaman Lauderdale

Description

We are providing an in-depth practical intervention mode.

Objectives

• • Bring awareness to the importance of Cultural client-centered needs.
  • Provide practical culturally competent interventions.
  • Providing systematic approach that can be adapted.

Room Wingate 60-61

Speaker(s):

Description

This presentation will review and summarize relevant research on the effects of social media use on adolescent well-being and mental health. The presentation will contrast research findings on social media use with the portrayal of the effects of social media in popular press and media. The presentation will describe research that explores different factors such as motivation to use social media influences the effects of social media more than the amount of time spent on social media. The presentation will then discuss the potential beneficial effects of social media use for adolescence. Lastly, the presentation will provide research-based strategies and recommendations for parents and others working with adolescents for minimizing the harm of social media use, while maximizing potential benefits.

Objectives

• • Describe the association between adolescent social media use and adolescent well-being and mental health.
  • Name several factors that influence the association between adolescent social media use and adolescent well-being.
  • Identify and describe the positive and beneficial effects of social media use for adolescents.
  • Identify research-based strategies and recommendations for safe(r) social media use in adolescents.

Room Wingate 62-63

Speaker(s):

Description

This session is intended for behavioral health workers who wish to learn more about how experiencing traumatic events, either directly or indirectly, as a first responder reacting to an emergency or crisis situation may impact their professional and personal well-being.

Objectives

• • Define and discuss the impact of trauma, vicarious trauma, and burnout on professional and personal wellbeing
  • Identify compassion fatigue and burnout warning signs
  • Describe individualized self-care and resiliency strategies to mitigate the damaging impacts of trauma and associated stress responses

Room Nautical Wheeler

Speaker(s):

Description

Individuals with IDD are living longer than they ever have before.
In the U.S., the population of people over 60 who have a developmental disability is projected to increase from an estimated 173,000 in 1995 to 332,900 by the year 2025. Until recently, a shortened life span was expected for people with ID, and services and research were geared toward serving children.
75% of Adults with DD are in the 40 to 60 year age group *9,000 individual currently – projected to grow to 30,000 in next ten years. Individuals with IDD are most likely will to be served in the community. Because of this older people with developmental disabilities comprise a relatively unstudied group. Furthermore, individuals with IDD and Dementia are also relatively unstudied.
The prevalence of Dementia is 4x higher in IDD population than the general population.
Adults with Down Syndrome are at a higher risk of dementia and show a significantly elevated prevalence with advancing age. Early onset and more rapid progression of the disease (5-7 years) with more cognitive and adaptive functioning losses are more evident with Down syndrome. Prevalence of dementia doubles every 5 years between 45-60 years and is often the reason for referral is different for the IDD population than general population (e.g. a behavior change, like “He’s hitting people,” or “He’s incontinent.”). Almost half of the individuals that meet criteria go undetected/undiagnosed.

Objectives

• • Discuss disability awareness
  • Define the dementia umbrella
  • Discuss dementia in the IDD population
  • Review assessing dementia in IDD
  • Review treatment and recommendations for IDD and dementia

Room Paradise Ballroom B

Speaker(s):

Description

Suicide slipped into the top ten as far as causes of death in the United States (CDC, 2016). Deaths among school-aged children and teens continue to be on the rise; so much so, that suicide has statistically risen to the second leading cause of death among people aged 10-34. Suicide traumatizes those left in its path and how to navigate the grief following a suicide is both tricky and scary. This presentation reviews precipitating factors in youth who die by suicide, as well as risk factors and red flags for youth who attempt it in hopes of informing prevention efforts moving forward. How to best screen kids for suicidality, as well as how to talk to youth who express suicidal thoughts shall also be highlighted. Additionally, this presentation covers common grief reactions in those working through the death of a loved one to suicide and how to best support those individuals.

Objectives

• • Examine 10,000 pediatric suicides to determine factors, causes, and warning signs
  • Identify red flags in suicidal youth
  • Learn how to directly talk with youth who express suicidality
  • Explore steps to take following the suicide death of a student

Room Parasol II

Speaker(s):

Description

Embark on a transformative exploration of somatic therapies and trauma in this presentation, where the focus extends beyond conventional cognitive approaches. We will delve into a deeper understanding of the nervous system, unraveling the complexities of the trauma response, and moving beyond mere cognition into the profound healing wisdom of the body. Participants will be able to define the innate threat response cycle and its role in fostering resilience and facilitating a comprehensive healing process that recognizes the body as an integral player in the narrative.
In this journey, participants will learn about key concepts of interoception and proprioception as they explore the internal landscape of sensation and movement through experiential exercises. Building a profound relationship with the body becomes a cornerstone, unlocking the wisdom and intellect inherent in the body. The presentation serves as a roadmap for participants to venture into nuanced realms, cultivating a deeper understanding of the body’s language. Through gaining an understanding of the importance of attuning to the nervous system in therapy and supporting clients in redefining their relationship with the bodies, participants will be empowered to guide clients toward profound self-discovery and restoration, transcending the boundaries of traditional talk therapy.

Objectives

• • Define “somatic” therapies: Establish a professional understanding of the term within a conceptual framework.
  • Analyze the phases and methods of completing the threat response cycle for fostering resilience and comprehensive healing.
  • Describe 3 somatic interventions that can be used in clinical settings

Room Paradise Ballroom C

Speaker(s):

Description

Bibliotherapy will be defined and participants will learn how to use a 4 stage process in order to maximize books in their profession.

Objectives

• • Define bibliotherapy
  • Discuss bibliotherapy begginnings and how it is used now
  • Identify how to maximize your experience with books using a 4 stage process: identification, catharsis, insight and universilization
  • Discuss how bibliotherapy may help your profession

Room Leeward 74-75

Speaker(s):

Description

While the philosophy of harm reduction is generally welcomed and supported by industry professionals and the population alike, implementing harm reduction interventions is complex and often misunderstood. What does it look like – in practice – to approach a client from a harm reduction framework? Do we, as clinicians, approve or enable substance use and process addiction behaviors as we work from a place of compassion and curiosity?
Join us as we work together to understand and welcome our own professional and personal biases as they pertain to harm reduction. Let’s work together to provide a place for respect, dignity, and autonomy for those who are struggling with acute or chronic substance use disorder, eating disorders, and/or complex mental health challenges.

Objectives

• • Describe what harm reduction means and how it is applied in counseling practice
  • Identify systemic and micro barriers to providing compassionate and client-centered treatment
  • Practice real-time harm reduction interventions within the presentation
  • Connect with other professionals to learn how to utilize the harm reduction philosophy in our respective workplaces

Room Paradise Ballroom A

Speaker(s):

Description

This presentation will cover history of the LGBTQIA+ community, diversity within the community, and how to make your practice or organization more inclusive. While the topic range is broad, the presentation is meant to appeal to learners from all different backgrounds and knowledge bases. Through learning about history, diversity, and inclusion, you will be more aware of any implicit biases that exist. The goal is to meet participants at any point in their journey of cultural awareness, competency, or humility.

Objectives

• • Review LGBTQIA+ History
  • Discuss the diversity present in the LGBTQIA+ community
  • Identify ways to make your practice more inclusive
  • Review statistics and how those experiences may affect the LGBTQIA+ community
  • Dispel stigma and myths regarding the LGBTQIA+ community

Paradise Ballroom ABC

Speaker(s): LJ Punch, MD

Description:

Power4STL is the home of The Bullet Related Injury Clinic and The T, a holistic harm reduction program. During this presentation, founder and executive director, Dr. LJ Punch, will share the Power4STL theory of trauma and approach to holistic healing care. This includes a narrative shifting approach to the impact of bullets and needles in the lives of communities experiencing acute and chronic violence.

Objectives

• Identify the unique impact of community violence
• Define Bullet Related Injury
• Acknowledge symptoms of broken trust
• Identify opportunities to create a healing environment for those experiencing community violence

Paradise Ballroom ABC

The Department of Mental Health, Division of Behavioral Health, is recognizing three Outstanding Performers for Housing, Supported Employment, and Recovery Support Services.  These awards go to agencies that exemplify the DMH Mission of serving, empowering, and supporting Missourians to live their best lives.

Landmark Recovery Center prioritizes reaching people where they are at and providing support to build their recovery capital for long term recovery success. They distribute NARCAN; visit local shelters; provide transportation; offer numerous support groups and individualized peer coaching services; and offer various pro-social activities such as art classes, sporting tournaments, float trips and barbecues.  Many of the services provided are designed to provide support to the entire family.

Landmark Recovery Center has been successful in creating numerous partnerships to better serve and unite the local recovery community. The partnerships include Probation & Parole Officers using their RCC space to connect clients to their services; the local Cole County Jail Pretrial Services utilizing staff for release resources and connections to treatment; collaboration with local treatment providers; a strong partnership with National Alliance for Mental Illness; weekly attendance at local municipal court; attending resource fairs at local prisons; and creating a Recovery Week with the local Treatment Court team. Additionally, Landmark has contracts in place to provide peer services for the Callaway County Drug Treatment Court and family services for the Callaway Family Court.  Landmark has founded the Capital City Recovery Coalition where community partners meet every other month to discuss community issues and is working towards becoming an official chapter of the Missouri Coalition of Recovery Support Providers.

This year’s Outstanding Performer for Supported Employment Award goes to Burrell Behavioral Health – Springfield.

Burrell Springfield has been an Individual Placement and Support provider for over six years. They have consistently scored in the highest range of fidelity, which is the exemplary range.  They have strong leadership support that has instilled a culture of employment throughout the agency.  The leadership and guidance provided by the IPS supervisor has been highly praised.

Their team was one of the first to qualify for an abbreviated fidelity review process, which is reserved for only the highest performing teams with lower turnover.  At their last review, the program was highlighted for their integration and collaboration with the treatment team, strong documentation, and creative strategies for supporting people with the career goals.  Their annual employment rates have consistently been higher than state and national averages.

Their employment program really embodies the spirit of “Employment is Recovery.”

Room Leeward 76-77

Speaker(s): 

Sandra Reese, BS

Description: 

Objectives

• List at least two reasons why employment is a critical mental health intervention
• List at least three reasons why employment isn’t seen as a central focus of the public mental health system.
• List four strategies for how to promote employment within the public mental health system.

Room Nautical Wheeler

Speaker(s): 

Kathleen Deppeler, BA

Description: 

Objectives

• Participants will understand how a tiered framework relates to people, interventions, and organizations
• Participants will understand how a tiered framework improves outcomes community wide
• Participants will know how to access free PBS resources from the Department of Mental Health to improve relationships, behaviors, and environments through positive practices.

Room Paradise Ballroom B

Speaker(s): 

Terri Cooley-Bennett, LCSW, LSCSW, CCDP-D, TTS

Description: 

Objectives

• Provide overview of common ethical principles related to behavioral health practice
• Discuss trends and current research regarding ethical complaints in counseling practice and behavioral health with a focus on private practice
• Examine strategies and best practices for preventing and managing complaints and ethical dilemmas in practice

Room Paradise Ballroom A

Speaker(s): LJ Punch, MD, TJ Barber ATR, LPC, Indigo Hann, Sandra Mayen, Amy Miller

Description: 

During this session we will introduce our Are U OK? campaign which serves as an invitation to reframe the concept of drug use into a framework of trauma. This session will present a hands on experience of responding to trauma, overdose, and stress through a sensory experience to include acudetox acupuncture, relaxation techniques, and training on how to approach conversations around overdose risk. #TraumaIsTheRealDrug

Objectives

• Learn the history of acudetox
• Name three sources of sensory input for relaxation
• Identify the presence of trauma in day to day habits
• Experience deep relaxation

Room Leeward 74-75

Speaker(s)

Description

I will discuss early child interventions that I have worked and continue to work on.

Objectives

• Identify successful elements of Early Child Positive Behavior Supports Initiative in Boone County
• Understand Child Parent Psychotherapy
• Describe elements of Positive Parenting program

Room Wingate 62-62

Speaker(s)

Description

Objectives

• Describe how the ECHO model is used for patient-centered education and training.
• Identify ECHO opportunities for self, peers, and organization.
• Identify ECHO opportunities for self, peers, and organization.

Room Parasol II

Speaker(s):

Description

Writing is a therapeutic exercise that can help an individual process experiences, express emotions in a healthy way, and record events for future reference. Writing can also aid someone in drawing out memories of the past that may need to be addressed and resolved. In this presentation, Caroline S. Cooper, a published writer on mental health topics, will teach session attendees about different styles of writing and how they can benefit an individual moving through the recovery process. Caroline will also share how writing played a crucial role in her recovery as an example. During the presentation, attendees will have opportunities to participate in writing exercises to practice some of the material presented. A handout will be provided for notes and will contain a summary of the different styles presented.

Objectives

• Discuss how to approach writing without fear
• Write a poem to express feelings in a healthy way
• Use a journal to record their recovery journey
• Share personal experience as a way to heal and encourage others

Room Pardise Ballroom C

Speaker(s)

Description

As we go through life, we experience the deaths of friends, parents, siblings, and life partners. Other losses can be related to health, moves, and loss of roles that have been important parts of personal identity. This workshop features clinical strategies to support clients’ healthy grieving processes and management of daily life tasks. Screening and assessment tools are reviewed to aid clinicians in distinguishing normative grief reactions from prolonged grief disorder, with implications for treatment planning and implementation. An emphasis will be on grief therapy strategies that are responsive to the needs of culturally diverse clients. Case examples are provided to support the efforts of practitioners from a range of disciplines (e.g., social work, counseling, marriage and family therapy, nursing, clinical psychology) in busy clinical practices.

Objectives

•Describe differences between normative grief reactions, depression and DSM-V-TR Prolonged Grief Disorder

•Select 3 strategies to support healthy grieving

Room Parasol I

Speaker(s)

Description

The presentation will focus on discussing the historical context of aggression contagion within inpatient forensic settings. Research at the Fulton State Hospital has identified that aggressive incidents are often “contagious,” meaning incidents are not randomly spread across the year but clustered temporally. This presentation will examine the presence of aggression contagion within all programs at Fulton State Hospital. Additionally, the presentation will describe the clinical presentations associated with aggression contagion. Lastly, presenters will provide examples of aggression contagion and interventions utilized to reduce the impact of this phenomenon on aggression within inpatient units.

Objectives

• Define aggression contagion within inpatient forensic settings.
• Identify patterns of aggression contagion based on clinical presentation.
• Identify interventions that target aggression contagion.

Room Leeward 76-77

Speaker(s): 

Sandra Reese, BS

Description: 

Objectives

1. List at least two ways that employment can help people recover from substance use disorders.
2. Describe two common myths and facts regarding co-occurring disorders.
3. List four strategies that IPS practitioners use to help people work despite substance use disorders.

Room Paradise Ballroom C

Speaker(s)

Description

Objectives

• Identify the main components of the IFS model and apply them in practice
• Utilize IFS interventions in practice as they pertain to risky behaviors
• Practice somatic exercises while discussing complex trauma case studies

Room Parasol I

Speaker(s): 

Ali Mahmoud, MD

Description: 

Objectives

• Obtain knowledge on history of psychedelic therapy from the past to the present time
• Define psilocybin pharmacology
• Discuss therapeutic benefits of psilocybin especially in treatment resistant depression
• Discuss “assistant therapy ” and its phases

Room Paradise Ballroom B

Speaker(s): 

Terri Cooley-Bennett, LCSW, LSCSW, CCDP-D, TTS

Description: 

Objectives

• Provide overview of common ethical principles related to behavioral health practice in an agency setting
• Define Vicarious Liability and discuss the variety of ways that professionals and clinicians can be held accountable for Vicarious Liability or “imputed negligence”
• Consider potential ethical dilemmas that arise from Vicarious Liability and introduce options for managing the dilemma
• Examine strategies and best practices for preventing and managing complaints and ethical dilemma in practice

Room Leeward 74-75

Speaker(s)

Description

Objectives

• Define infant and early childhood mental health
• Define infant and early childhood mental health
• Describe ways in which professionals can support the wellbeing of young children
• Identify the importance and long-term outcomes of optimal early health

Room Wingate 60-61

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This workshop will examine effective interventions used to help clients work through past adverse childhood experiences or trauma.

Objectives

• Define the difference between adverse childhood experiences and trauma
• Define the difference between adverse childhood experiences and trauma
• Describe the impact of adverse childhood experiences and trauma on the individual.
• Discuss the relationship between adverse childhood experiences and depression.

Room Wingate 62-62

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• Recognize the culture and assessing the needs of the environment
• Identify barriers to successful change and strategies to overcome that resistance
• Engaging the right stakeholders and building a strategy for sustainable change

Room Nautical Wheeler

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This presentation delves into the realms of First Episode Psychosis (FEP) and Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD). Attendees will gain a clear understanding of both conditions. We will cover prevalence statistics, explore recent research findings, and introduce models of care tailored to individuals with co-occurring FEP and IDD. Practical strategies to integrate into patient care will be highlighted, equipping healthcare professionals with valuable insights to enhance support for this unique population.

Objectives

• Define First Episode Psychosis
• Understand the wide spectrum of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
• Implement compassionate and adaptive strategies in care for individuals with concurrent FEP and IDD

Room Parasol II

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Description

When someone is experiencing a significant mental health challenge like psychosis, depression or bipolar disorder it can feel as if a wall has been placed between them and everyone else. This is incredibly painful both for the person living with the mental health condition and for those who love them. This workshop will explore strategies to break through those clouds while also exploring the lived experience of mental illness.

Objectives

• Describe how mental health conditions can affect someone’s communication style
• Discuss strategies for connecting with someone experiencing paranoia, hearing voices or having other mental health symptoms
• Utilize recovery-oriented strategies to encourage strengths

Room Paradise Ballroom C

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• Describe the building blocks of psychosis spectrum disorders
• Evaluate psychosis — establishing the threshold
• Discuss the importance of early identification and intervention

Room Parasol I

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• Discuss the historical stigmatization of gender diverse individuals as related to the psychiatric community
• Analyze the prevalence of mental health disorders in this community, current thoughts towards psychiatry from transgender and gender nonconforming individuals and how we can improve
• Integrate the role of a mental health provider in aiding those seeking gender affirming care

Room Leeward 74-75

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This presentation aims to increase understanding of infant mental health within the context of the foster care system. It explores the lasting effects of early trauma on both parental functioning and child development, emphasizing the intergenerational transmission of trauma. Practical strategies to support parents and caregivers in meeting case plan requirements are discussed, highlighting the importance of trauma-informed approaches and individualized support.

Objectives

1. Increase knowledge and understanding of infant mental health in the context of the foster care system
2. Explore the long-term impact of early trauma on parental functioning and child development
3. Identify strategies to support parents/caregivers in meeting case plan requirements

Room Wingate 60-61

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Objectives

• Describe the 5 Steps of the Family Wellbeing Approach (FWBA)
• Describe the 4 factors that can contribute to recovery avoidance
• Identify 2 common family responses that can make recovery avoidance worse

Room Wingate 62-63

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“You don’t know, what you don’t know!” This phrase fits so many therapists and case managers that start into the field of mental health and those that supervise them. This presentation is for new therapists, new case managers, and those that supervise them. We will look at the key things that new staff need to be taught and how to teach it to them. We will build strategies to help new staff learn to adjust to the “real world” of clinical work from their academic view. We will also help supervisors gain knowledge and skills to help new staff grow into the field and not leave it prematurely. We will also provide good strategies for those that are licensure supervisors for PLPCs and LMSWs.

Objectives

• Identify things that new staff do that need to be addressed up front.
• Identify things that new staff do that need to be addressed up front.
• Help new staff grow into the field instead of leaving it too soon.

Room Parasol II

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• Describe the Homeless System
• Review Evidence Based Practices
• Identify systematic challenges

Room Paradise Ballroom A

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Room Leeward 76-77

Speaker(s):

Luetjen, Chad

Description

Presentation on services offered at Missouri Job Centers for jobseekers and employers. With details and discussion on Job Center Service Delivery, Services for Job Seekers, Services for Employers, WIOA Title I, and WIOA Title II. As well as an over view on Work Opportunity Tax Credits, Federal Bonding Program, and Job Center partner agencies.

Objectives

1. Define job center services for Jobseekers
2. Define job center services for employers
3. Describe educational and training opportunities available for jobseekers and employers

Room Paradise Ballroom A

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Description

Objectives

• Utilize short stories relevant to uncertain times to provide guidance
• Unpack the themes or archetypes of stories for sharing the right one at the right time
• Discuss how stories may be relevant to navigating real life situations