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Medical Imaging Research in Psychology and Psychiatry: A picture is worth a thousands words, but is it really telling you anything?

Speaker(s)

David Tate, PhD

Imaging studies meant to inform diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment utilize medical imaging methods that are often difficult to interpret and utilize in practical ways.  This training will improve the average clinicians ability to access this literature in an appropriately critical manner by providing clinical providers with basic skills and knowledge that will be useful in interpreting imaging research in psychological and psychiatric patient populations.  We will discuss types of imaging studies and basic imaging measures in the context of several important studies of psychiatric and psychological diagnosis such as PTSD, schizophrenia, traumatic brain injury, and drug addiction.
Learning Objectives:
1.  Attendees will understand and be able to define basic medical imaging methods and terms commonly used in the research literature.
2.  Attendees will be able to demonstrate these basic medical imaging methods and terms using current psychological and psychiatric research literature.
3.  Attendees will understand the basic biological information revealed with imaging methods in the context of depression, PTSD, schizophrenia, and drug addiction.

Slides in PDF format

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Supported Education for Youth with First-Episode Psychosis

Speaker(s)

Sarah Swanson, LSW, CRC

Although many young people are uninterested in mental health treatment, they do want to pursue education and employment. That makes makes IPS a natural tool for engagement. And by intervening early, practitioners can prevent youth from abandoning their career goals and heading down the path to a life of disability. Supported education, including both short-term certificate training programs and college degrees, prepares youth to earn a living wage and escape a life of poverty. More than that, education and employment offer youth hope as they struggle with the implications of managing a serious, long-term illness. (IPS stands for Individual Placement and Support, the evidence-based approach to helping people with serious mental illnesses with employment.)

Swanson Keynote Missouri- Spring Training Institute – Slides in PDF format

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The Impact of Parental Substance Use on Young Children and Teens

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Megan Keller, MS

Substance use disorders have been found to affect the whole family, not just the person that is using or drinking. Children of an addicted parent are at much higher risk for addiction themselves. This presentation will bring more light onto how this is a family disease and, in particular, how young children and teens can be helped through their own recovery. Concepts that will be shared are Warning Signs, the 5 Cs, At-risk Kids, the Reaction Spiral, Effects of Stress, How Adults Can Help and the importance of a Safety Plan. This will be an interactive presentation utilizing worksheets, Power Point, and class participation.

Keller The Impact of Parental Substance Use on Young Children and Teens – Slides in PDF format

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Dynamics of Breathing for Stress Reduction

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Colleen Loehr, MD

This workshop will include breathing and mindful movement exercises to reduce stress. The workshop will include Coherent Breathing exercise to increase heart rate variability and overall wellbeing. Highlights of research studies about the benefits of qigong, mindfulness, and pranayama (breathing exercises) will be reviewed. Participants will be able to practice the exercises to help reduce stress and ‘burn out.’ Participants will also be able to teach these beneficial practices to clients. Information about resources for ongoing practice will be provided. The presenter will also describe experiences teaching these exercises to mental health patients at Fulton State Hospital.

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Always Turned On: Sex, Porn and Love Addiction in the Digital Age

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Richard Young, MSW, MDiv, LCSW, CSAT, CMAT

The goal of this program is to present up to date information on how digital technology is impacting sexual behavior, dating, and intimacy among people of all ages. We will discuss how technology is generating a “new breed” of sexually addicted individuals whose brains get literally hijacked by an unlimited online world. The goal of the presentation is to give clinicians information on how to assess and learn tools and resources to assist clients in their treatment and recovery from compulsive sexual and relational behaviors. Special emphasis will be given to treatment for spouses/partners who have been betrayed by their partner’s behaviors and address the trauma that these individuals often experience as a result.

Young Always Turned On 5-1-16 – Slides in PDF format

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Effective Collaborations to incorporate MAT and enhance the Continuity of Care for Corrections Involved clients

Speaker(s)

Stephen Doherty, MEd

Marta Nolin, PhD

This presentation will provide an overview of the integration of medication assisted treatment (MAT) into the full continuum of substance use disorder treatment for offenders incarcerated in and/or supervised by the Missouri Department of Corrections. The presentation will underscore the collaboration established and in place between numerous state agencies and private treatment providers that has been essential to enhance treatment processes over the continuum from in-custody to community based treatment. Included in the presentation will be an overview of the various MAT projects and steps necessary in implementation and challenges, lessons learned, steps toward expansion and preliminary evaluation outcomes. The presentation will include representatives from the various disciplines who contribute to the success of this project toward reducing recidivism of offenders with substance use disorders including the Departments of Corrections and Mental Health, Probation and Parole, in-custody and community based medical services, in-custody and community based SUDS treatment providers and academia involved in research and evaluation of the project.

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Technology-Assisted Care for Substance Use Disorders

Speaker(s)

Scott Kerby, MA, LPC

This workshop aims to improve awareness of and receptivity to using Technology-Assisted Care (TAC) for the treatment of Substance Use Disorders (SUDS). This workshop will help identify effective TAC interventions and introduce participants to two validated TAC interventions that are available. The presentation will identify strategies and approaches for adoption and integration of TAC into routine clinical practice, and explore implementation and integration challenges that exist (cost, reimbursement, security, etc…).

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Medication Assisted Treatment-Prescription Drug and Opioid Addiction (MAT-PDOA) Grant

Speaker(s)

Mark Shields, MEd, LPC

Tim Rudder, BSW

Tara Crawford, MA

Missouri’s Medication Assisted Treatment-Prescription Drug and Opioid Addiction (MAT-PDOA) grant. The purpose of this grant is to increase capacity and provide accessible, effective, comprehensive, coordinated/integrated, and evidence-based medication assisted treatment (MAT) and other recovery support services to individuals with opioid use disorders seeking or receiving MAT. Goals of the grant are to: 1) increase the number of individuals receiving MAT services with pharmacotherapies approved by the FDA for the treatment of opioid use disorders; 2) increase the number of individuals receiving integrated care; and 3) decrease illicit drug use at 6-months follow-up.

Shields MAT PDOA STI 2016.05.05 – Slides in PDF format

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Competency to Stand Trial and Intellectual Disability: Examining the Likelihood of, and Factors Influencing, Restoration of Competence to Proceed to Trial

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Christopher Robertson, PhD

Shawn Anderson, PhD

Defendants diagnosed with Intellectual Disability and committed to the Missouri Department of Mental Health as Incompetent to Stand Trial at two hospitals in western Missouri were examined to determine likelihood of competency restoration following treatment. The influence of demographic, criminal, psychological, and treatment variables on restoration was also examined. The background, method, results, and implications/future directions (including methods of restoration treatment) of this study will be presented.