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Watch Your Language! Reducing Stigma by Recognizing the Power of Language

Speaker(s):

Rachel Taube, MSW and Brenden Christensen, MSW

Presentation: Stigma is real and impacts lives– whether it prevents someone from reaching out to provide to support to someone in a mental health crisis, or prevents someone from seeking the treatment they deserve. Stigma is reflected in how many people talk about mental health problems. Statements like “That’s crazy” or “She’s so OCD” can stigmatize and minimize mental health problems. Join us to learn more about stigma and understand the research on this topic. You will take away practical strategies to combat stigma and raise awareness of mental health problem, including some of the strategies used in Mental Health First Aid. Whether you’re a seasoned professional, a person with lived experience, a community member or all of the above– join us to reflect on your own use of language and join the movement to end stigma.

Objectives:

  • Describe the structure and research surrounding of stigma.
  • Reflect on their own use of language that might be stigmatizing.
  • Discuss practical strategies and knowledge about programs to combat stigma.

Slides and Handouts:

Taube- Watch your language

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Introduction to Somatic Experiencing: A Psychophysiological Approach to Resolving Trauma

Speaker(s):

Rebecca Ehrke, PsyD

Presentation: Somatic Experiencing (SE), developed by Dr. Peter Levine, is a potent psychobiological approach to resolving symptoms of trauma and chronic stress. SE offers a framework to assess where a client is “stuck” in the survival responses of “fight, flight or freeze”. SE provides clinical tools to resolve these fixated physiological states that underlie many trauma symptoms. Participants will gain a basic understanding of how trauma affects the autonomic nervous system, how SE supports resolution of trauma symptoms and learn a few tools to support nervous system regulation.

Objectives:

  • Develop a basic understanding of Somatic Experiencing and why it is highly effective in the treatment of trauma-related psychiatric disorders.
  • Review a few basic tools to support physiological and emotional regulation in those who are experiencing symptoms of trauma and other stress-related conditions.
  • Define how psychological and physiological symptoms of PTSD occur as a result of being “stuck” in fight, flight or freeze survival responses.

Slides:

Ehrke_SE intro training Tantara

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The Integration of Mindfulness in the Treatment of Addictions, Trauma and Anxiety Disorders

Speaker(s):

Robert Cox, MA, PLPC

Presentation: Trauma underlies every addiction. The research is increasingly bearing out this fact. In addition, PTSD and anxiety disorders are nearly always underpinned by trauma. Mindfulness is a technique that can be used to rewire those trauma responses. By learning to sit with emotions and observe them, recognizing where they come from and their purpose by slowing and releasing the limbic region, we can retrain the brains automatic response to those trauma events. This presentation will cover the latest in neuroscience and the effects of mindfulness on the treatment of these issues.

Objectives:

  • Identify the ways that trauma relates to addictions, PTSD and other anxiety disorders and mental illnesses.
  • Identify and discuss the process of trauma, memory storage and recall involved in the brain.
  • Discuss the ways that mindfulness can begin to heal the mind in conjunction with other therapies.
  • Use several Mindfulness exercises in assisting individuals with trauma, PTSD and comorbid disorders in gaining emotional regulation and building resistance to triggers and relapse.

Slides:

Cox_Robert_MIndfulness Treatment for Addiction and Trauma

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Treating People with Intellectual Disabilities and Sex Offending Behavior

Speaker(s):

Sharon Robbins, PhD and Lee Ann McVay, PsyD

Presentation: Treating people with intellectual disabilities and sex offending behavior is a challenge. This presentation will include a variety of issues in treatment. Terminology in intellectual disabilities is at times different than terminology used when working with sex offenders. Offense characteristics are different in people with intellectual disabilities and sex offending behavior. Specific diagnoses related to sex offenders may present differently in sex offenders with intellectual disabilities. Assessment based treatment is important in addressing the sex offending behavior. Consideration of risk is more complicated and individualized. Comprehensive treatment planning on an individualized basis is important for successful treatment.

Objectives:

  • Identify terminology issues associated with people with intellectual disabilities and sex offending behavior.
  • Explain how functional behavior analysis can be applied to sex offending behaviors.
  • Recognize treatment needs for people with intellectual disabilities and sex offending behaviors.

Slides:

Robbins_Treating People with Intellectual Disabilities and Sex Offending

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Medication Assisted Treatment: Not Just a Safety Net, a Part of Integrated Treatment

Speaker(s):

Rick Strait, MS, LPC, Heather Williams, BS and Scott Kerby, MA, LPC

Presentation: Our presentation will cover practical tips on how to into incorporate medication assisted treatment (MAT) into your treatment. We will give examples of what MAT is and what MAT is not, and that education is power, both for the professional and the consumer. We will share some of the obstacles we had to overcome and are still overcoming when we first starting encouraging MAT in our co-occurring program. These barriers included educating consumers, educating doctors, as well as dealing with resistance from other staff members and some support groups. We will give examples on helping to determine if someone would benefit from MAT, helping the consumer communicate with doctor about MAT, and how to use Motivational Interviewing to help consumers who may benefit from MAT, but that are struggling with ambivalence. We will give examples of overcoming personal biases towards MAT and how to be an advocate/educator of MAT at your agency. We also will cover how MAT can be a wonderful part of a consumer’s treatment, but that it is not a cure in of itself; providing tips to help encourage and keep consumers engaged, who may feel like they no longer need counseling because they have MAT.

Objectives:

  • Suggest different tips or ways to roll with resistance and educate on MAT (prescribers, staff, families, consumers, etc.)
  • Summarize how to continue to use motivational interviewing and outreach with consumers who are using MAT and no longer feel they need other parts of treatment.
  • Review facts about what MAT is and how to use that information to help reduce discrimination towards MAT.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Strategic Interventions for Engaging Resistant Adolescents

Speaker(s):

Amanda Gregory, MA, NCC, LPC

Presentation: Adolescents are one of the toughest populations to engage in therapy. Clinicians encounter multiple obstacles while serving this population such as dysfunctional family dynamics, mandated treatment expectations, developmental trauma, attachment needs, brain development, and attention issues. This presentation will provide a road map illustrating how to facilitate engagement by building and maintaining trusting relationships by utilizing experiential interventions. Attendees will learn how to build and maintain trusting relationships with highly resistant adolescents by providing empathy, attunement, playfulness, safe boundaries, empowerment, and cultural sensitivity. Attendees will also learn how to implement multiple individualized experiential interventions designed to promote adolescent engagement. This presentation will include demonstrations of the interventions, opportunities for attendees to practice these interventions, and intriguing case studies.

Objectives:

  • Identify obstacles which hinder engagement when providing treatment for resistant adolescents
  • Develop how to build and maintain a trusting relationship by utilizing the following interventions: empathy, attunement, playfulness, safe boundaries, empowerment and cultural sensitivity
  • Practice and implement individualized experiential interventions designed to promote adolescent engagement

Slides:

Gregory_Strategic Interventions for Engaging Resistant Adolescents A Gregory

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Past, Present and Future Supports for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities

Speaker(s):

Cla Stearns, PhD

Presentation: The presentation will describe emerging trends in the supports available for individuals with developmental disabilities, including the national push for true integration into the community.  These trends will be presented in the context of historical attitudes and service delivery models.  The recent federal emphasis on elimination of coercion, expectations of participation in the workplace, and the advancement of opportunity for a typical life will be discussed.  The presentation will also address the reality of co-occurring disorders and the increased emphasis on individuality of supports based on the individual’s interests, abilities, and desires.  Future trends, including a move from diagnosis-based services to function-based services will also be discussed.

Objectives:

  • Explain the trajectory of service provision from institutional congregate care through distributed congregate care and on to individual supports provided in the general community based on personal interests, goals, and functional ability.
  • Encourage of a view of supports that moves past diagnosis-based approaches to one based on the interaction between an individual and the community environment.
  • Recognize the fundamental right of all individuals to the opportunity for a typical life and what this concept means for the traditional view of supports.

Slides:

Stearns_Past Present and Future Supports for Individuals

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Welcoming the LGBTQ population into your Professional Scope

Speaker(s):

Shelly Farnan, PhD

Presentation: This presentation is designed to increase Cultural Competence in working with the LGBTQ Population in an environment that is dynamic, supportive, genuine, and fun. The needs of LGBTQ patients and their families are often overlooked, neglected, or minimized by providers. Often this oversight is rooted in lack of training, lack of experience, and provider comfort level. The goal of this training is to portray realistic representations of the multifaceted LGBTQ experience to promote a realistic understanding and develop comfort and confidence in recognizing and meeting unique needs. Participants who attend this training will gain knowledge, skill, ability, and interest in working with the LGBTQ population. This presentation offers opportunities to obtain the language providers need to respect and empower patients, to become an inclusive practice, to build confidence in developing relationships necessary to nurture healing and growth, and to obtain useful LGBTQ resource information.

Objectives:

  • Describe the importance of incorporating sexual orientation and gender identity into the professional relationship
  • Describe healthcare needs and barriers to care for the LGBTQ population
  • Identify Best Practices in creating a safe and welcoming environment for LGBTQ people and in treating LGBTQ patients

Slides:

Farnan_2017 Spring Institute

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Counselors and Probation Officers: Dancing or Wrestling? Tips for Collaborative Practice

Speaker(s):

Adriatik Likcani, PhD and Lori Burk, BCJ

Presentation:  Participants will learn tips for collaborative practice between Service Agencies and Probation and Parole, and between counselors and probation officers. The presentation will discuss collaborative practice at the micro, mezzo and macro level. The presenters will: a) focus on debunking myths and misunderstanding that exist among professionals on both sides about each other; b) present the underlying philosophies of the two distinct disciplines and the areas of overlap; c) focus on the necessity for collaborative practice and the benefits for clients, their families and the community when there is strong mutual working relationship; and, d) highlight practical tips and skills for collaborative practice. Presenters have a long history of working together on establishment of services for clients (micro level), development of local coalitions and a recovery oriented system of care (macro level) to increase collaboration and reduce stigma, and on advocacy issues related to services and policies that effect clients and their families. We will use humor to share about bottlenecks and “wrestling” moments throughout the past 14 years of working with each other in the same community. We will share about our misconceptions, the mistakes we learned from, how we handled conflicts, strategies we used to resolve issues, and tips for agency administrators, counselors and probation officers to strengthen their collaboration for the benefit of their clients, families, and the community. The topics that will be addressed in this session are commonly taking place daily in practice and we hope to shed some light on these issues through our honest and open discussion about our journey. Our experiences are not unique compared to others, but our journey is unique for achieving the level of respect, collaboration and success in programs and services for clients and their families, and for establishing tips and guidelines for successful collaborative practices.

Objectives:

  • Review the importance of strong recovery oriented systems of care and collaborative practice between service agencies and probation and parole, and between probation officers and counselors.
  • Describe the distinct roles and common factors between probation and parole officers and counselors.
  • Review a variety of tips and interventions to develop and/or maintain strong working relationships and enhance the recovery oriented system of care for the benefit of clients, their families and the community

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Hiding in Plain Sight: Treatment Considerations for Males Who Have Been Sexually Abused, Part 1

Speaker(s):

James Smith, MEd, LPC  and Greg Holtmeyer, MEd

Presentation: This presentation will expose participants to a personal journey from victimization to recovery and give insights into road blocks that are specific to men who have been sexually abused. The presentation will discuss treatment considerations that are specific to men.

Objectives:

  • Present a first-hand account of a man who has thrived after experiencing sexual abuse.
  • Recognize the effects of sexual abuse that are specific to men.
  • Identify modifications in treatment approaches that lead to greater success and healing for men.

Slides:

Smith_Holtmeyer_Hiding in Plain Sight