Rachel Jones is a Licensed Professional Counselor in the State of Missouri and holds a Master’s of Education degree in Educational, School and Counseling Psychology from the University of Missouri-Columbia, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Sociology from University of Missouri-Columbia.

Rachel is the Director of Children’s Services at Burrell Behavioral Health – Central Region, where she has been employed for nine years. She is also an Adjunct Faculty Member for Columbia College where she teaches a human services course and has been in that role for eight years.

Rachel has provided training on Compassion Fatigue and Compassion Satisfaction in various settings over the last four years. She is committed to providing awareness, information and techniques to human service professionals to improve their quality of work and home life, as well as encourage organizations to promote awareness of Compassion Fatigue and strive to help employees achieve Compassion Satisfaction.

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Compassion Fatigue: How Caring for Others Impacts the Professional and the Organization

Christine White, LPN, CMPS believes that life is the best teacher if you allow it to be. White is in active recovery for her own mental illness, and she is an advocate towards mental health. She has been trained in NAMI and regularly holds support groups. She has a nursing license and is currently enrolled in classes to earn a degree in Social Work.

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Recovery Works

Tresa Dame began working with the elderly as a Nurses Aide with a part-time job. She moved to a full-time job and a Certified Nurses Aide. She then went on to a Certified Medication Aide. She then earned Licensed Practical Nurse in 1996 and began working with the elderly population. She then moved on to the psychiatric community in 1998 where she found her first love. She worked at Fulton State Hospital for almost 10 years with the chronically mentally ill and with the forensic community there. While at Fulton she helped with every job there except cooking and cleaning. She assisted the aides when they needed help, she assisted the RNs when they needed it, and she assisted the clients when they needed it. She worked with the physicians to ensure our clients had the best medications and care possible.

She decided she needed to do something more to help these folks than to just pass medication, so she went back to school and earned a Bachelor Degree in Social Work from William Woods University. She immediately returned to school at the University of Missouri in Columbia and earned my Masters in Social Work. She moved from Fulton to the community mental health scene where she saw many folks who were still ill, many with a diagnosis including anxiety. She worked with these folks to develop coping skills and ways to manage anxiety so that they could go to the store without anxiety attacks or sometimes just get through the day without a major panic attack.

Her oldest son has severe anxiety, panic disorder, and agoraphobia; and she personally lives with anxiety in her home daily. He also has Persistent Depressive Disorder (dysthymia). So, this compounds their issues. This gives her not only experience with clients, but experience with her own family with anxiety. And although he deplores the public, he does not mind her talking about him for examples as he feels it may help in some way.

She currently works as a Licensed Practical Nurse at an Elementary School. She loves working with people, no matter the age, no matter the problem! We all need a helper!

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Anxiety Disorders-Are We Doing Enough to Help?

Bob holds a Masters in Counseling from Webster University and is a Licensed Professional Counselor. Bob James has been working as the counselor in the Juvenile Detention Center for 12 years. During that time, he has also done drug education for youth in the community. Working with this population exposes Mr. James to up to the minute drug trends, attitudes and experiences of the youth in St. Louis County. Prior to the detention center, Mr. James worked at a school for at risk youth, where he did individual, group and family therapy with the residents. Prior to that Bob was an addictions counselor.

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What Are They Using Now?! Understanding the current, constantly shifting drug trends

Kathy Revell has had more than thirty-five (35) years’ experience in the healthcare industry, twenty-five (25) of which were in the psychiatric and chemical dependency field. She has held clinical and management positions in both inpatient and outpatient settings where she also did individual and family counseling. In addition, she has over thirteen (13) years of experience in the managed mental health care industry including product and network development, provider contracting and education, utilization management, appeals processes, case management design, reimbursement issues and quality improvement. Her managed care experience included multiple product design and operations including PPO, HMO, self-insured, and specialty products. She has been vice president of clinical operations for a mental health Medicaid HMO. In addition to being a registered nurse and nationally certified substance abuse counselor (NCAC II), she is a certified professional in healthcare quality (CPHQ). A published author, she holds a bachelor’s degree in nursing and a master’s degree in human relations and business. From 2001 to 2014 she was Vice President/Senior Consultant at REVELL INC. In July of 2014 she became an Independent Quality Advisor allowing for more flexibility in her schedule. Ms. Revell’s consulting specialties include organizational assessment and change, interpersonal communication, provider contracting, policy and procedure development, managed care case management design, and healthcare quality improvement.

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Reducing Resistance in Dyadic Conversations: Applications in Administrative and Clinical Settings

Roger A. Revell is a consultant, trainer, author and trusted advisor. After twenty-five years as president of REVELL, INC., he closed the company in the summer of 2014 to pursue other interests. Until his consulting career began in 1984, he was responsible for the work of up to four hundred people. Revell has a master of business administration (MBA), and has been a senior officer of a Fortune 500 company. He brings clarity to clients around issues of leadership, organizational change, performance management, and planning. In recent years, working with CEOs, he has done extensive projects regarding mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and the creation of strategic partnerships. Clients regularly comment on his expertise at working with change and conflict, and in helping them learn to deal effectively with these and other workplace issues.

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Reducing Resistance in Dyadic Conversations: Applications in Administrative and Clinical Settings

Dr. John Dandurand is a provisionally licensed psychologist and works in a rural Community Mental Health Center in Missouri. He has worked with caregivers in residential settings and consulted with behavioral management day programs.

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Behavioral Approaches to Intervention for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities

Dr. Jocelyn Towler is the executive director of Peak Performance Training Centers, an Adult Day Behavioral Program, located in the greater Los Angeles area. She has designed and implemented the center’s current behavioral program.

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Behavioral Approaches to Intervention for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities

Dr. Paul Boyle is a licensed psychologist and behavior consultant with over 30 years of experience working with individuals with developmental disabilities and their caregivers in a variety of settings in the great Los Angeles area.

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Behavioral Approaches to Intervention for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities

Stacey Barton, MSW, LCSW graduated from the Brown School of Social Work at Washington University. For over ten years, she has coordinated of the Huntington’s Disease Society of America Center of Excellence at Washington University School of Medicine including clinical care, research, genetic testing, health education, support groups, and more.  She was recognized by Social Work Today Magazine as a 2012 Dedicated and Deserving Social Worker and by the HDSA with the 2012 Patient and Family Service Award.  She is active in the Huntington Study Group and also coordinates several research studies.

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Beyond Confidentiality: Ethical Considerations in Genetics