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Best Practices: Sexuality When Working with ID/DD Youth

Nautical Wheeler

Speaker(s):

Hicks, Dawn, MA, BCBA

Description

This presentation will address best practices regarding sexuality when working with ID/DD youth. We will discuss agency and practitioner responsibilities and how to navigate resources for sexuality and ID or ASD. Abuses committed in the name of ABA will be reviewed along with the direction ABA is going and how to remain ethical when practicing. We will determine who dictates acceptable behavior and how that may vary by person, setting and context. Lastly, we will describe behavioral techniques to reduce problem behavior and increase desired behaviors.

Objectives

Attendees will be able to identify which person/level/organization to contact when seeking specialized services
Attendees will be able to list a minimum of three different ways ABA can be abusive
Attendees will be able to list a minimum of three examples of ethical ABA
Attendees will be able to describe a minimum of three ways to reduce problem behavior and/or increase desired behavior

Benson Presentation

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Teresa Cooley-Bennett, LCSW, LSCSW, CCPD-D, TTS

Ms. Terri Cooley- Bennett is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (MO), a Licensed Specialist Clinical Social Worker (KS), a Co-occurring Disorders Professional-Diplomate, and a Tobacco Treatment Specialist. She is a doctoral student at the Tulane University School of Social Work (TSSW). Ms. Cooley- Bennett is experienced in homelessness, mental illness, integrated treatment, substance use, sexual exploitation, trauma, and poverty. She currently works at Swope Health in the Behavioral Health Department. Ms. Cooley-Bennett has over 20 years of experience as a presenter, workshop leader, and educator and is a board member the Missouri Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW). She is trained with the National NASW Office of Ethics and Professional Review and is an active member of the ethics committee for the Missouri NASW. She is a presenter on ethics training organizations such as the Missouri Coalition for Behavioral Healthcare, the Missouri National Association of Social Workers, the University of Kansas School of Social Welfare Continuing Education Program, the Missouri Credentialing Board, and others. She provides field instruction for social work students, clinical supervision for professionals seeking licensure, and has held Adjunct Professor positions for City Vision University Addictions Counseling Program and the University of Kansas School of Social Welfare.

Presentation(s):

Ethics, Research, and Vulnerable Populations

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Ethics, Research, and Vulnerable Populations

Paradise Ballroom C

Speaker(s):

Teresa Cooley-Bennett, LCSW, LSCSW, CCPD-D, TTS 

Description

In behavioral healthcare and research, professionals typically work with vulnerable populations. Research shows that when practitioners work with vulnerable populations, the tendency to experience more intense ethical dilemmas arises. Cultural competence, the client’s right to self-determination and autonomy, acting in the client’s best interest, informed consent, boundaries, and confidentiality are essential ethical considerations when working with vulnerable populations.
In this workshop, participants will look at common ethical principles and applications to guide practice when providing services to vulnerable populations. Prevention and management, appropriate decision-making, and best practices will be reviewed regarding ethical dilemmas, whether in practice or research.

Objectives

Participants will define common ethical principles in their work with vulnerable populations

Participants will identify common ethical dilemmas that occur in specific populations with vulnerabilities

Participants will describe processes for making ethical decisions that will aide in the prevention of ethical violations

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Missouri Job Center Services

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

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The Intersection of Play Therapy and EMDR to Address Children’s Trauma

Leeward 76-77

 

Speaker(s):

Schmitz, Sara, MEd, LPC

Description

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a well researched and valid method of working with clients to reduce trauma symptoms. Children experience trauma just as adults do, although they may not show it in the same ways. This presentation will explore how children demonstrate the effects of trauma that may go unnoticed, as well as exploring the specific ways that EMDR can be tailored to work with children using play therapy techniques. This presentation will use psychoeducation and case studies to demonstrate the myriad of ways that EMDR can be adapted to working with children.

Objectives

1. Review the 8 phases of EMDR.
2. Discuss how play therapy can be helpful for children.
3. Describe techniques combining both play therapy and EMDR.
4. Review the symptoms of trauma in children.

Schmitz Presentation

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Teaching New Staff New Tricks

Windgate 60-61

 

Speaker(s):

Honeycutt, Nathan, MS, LPC

Description

“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

1. Review what new staff do that need to be addressed?
2. Dicuss what are the best ways to teach those skills to new staff?
3. Discuss how to help new staff grow into the field instead of leaving it too soon?

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YOU GOT TO DO SOMETHING “Balancing Your Life”

Leeward 74-75

 

Speaker(s):

Brooks, Estelle, MSW

Description

The Wheel of Life is a simple, yet powerful concept that can help you move from feelimg stuck in your current state of living to have a vision for a more balanced and purposeful life. Usimg the Wheel of Life visual worksheet gives participants an immediate overview of how balanced their current life is at this moment.

Participants will learn how to identify their six most important areas, create a vision for each area and develop plans for action that lead to a well-balanced life with greater energy, happiness, love, and meaning.

Objectives

1. Consider each area of your life and assess what’s off balance
2. Assess the amount of attention you’re currently devoting to each area.
3. Identify the areas that need attention, it’s time to plan the actions needed to work on regaining balance

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Habit Reversal Training, What Is It and How Is It Done?

Windgate 62-63

 

Speaker(s):

Raynor-McClanahan, Carolyn, MSW, LCSW

Description

The presentation will describe the history of HRT as well as what disorders HRT is most used in treating. The presentation will then break down HRT application into four parts, 1) awareness training, (2) competing response practice, (3) habit control motivation, and (4) generalization training. Each part will be explained and examples of how application of skills can be applied in treatment will be demonstrated. Resources for information on HRT will also be provided.

Objectives

1. Identify the origin of Habit Reversal Training.
2. Identify three mental health disorders where Habit Reversal Training has been an effective treatment modality.
3. Describe the four components of Habit Reversal Training.
4. Describe how the four components are applied during treatment.

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Five Years of Missouri’s Medication First Approach to Opioid Use Disorder: What We’ve Learned and Where We Go From Here

Paradise Ballroom B

 

Speaker(s):

Winograd, Rachel, PhD

Description

The overdose death crisis across the United States continues to worsen, despite some glimmers of hope in certain regions and in certain strategies. In Missouri, the State Targeted and State Opioid Response (STR/SOR) grants initiated in 2017 supported the development and implementation of the Medication First approach to opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment and demonstrated positive initial results. Medication First for OUD is a “low-barrier” treatment approach and is analogous to the Housing First approach to chronic homelessness; both prioritize rapid and permanent access to life-saving resources (housing for homelessness and treatment medications, particularly buprenorphine and methadone, for OUD).

Early findings from the first 18 months of Medication First implementation across Missouri’s state-funded substance use disorder treatment programs found uninsured clients enrolled in STR/SOR programs were more likely to receive medications for OUD (MOUD), to receive them faster, and to be retained in treatment significantly longer than uninsured clients enrolled in non-STR/SOR programs. However, subsequent analyses covering years 2019-2022 yield less straightforward results. For example, medication utilization has decreased within STR/SOR programs while increasing in non-STR/SOR programs (plateauing at approximately 60% of all uninsured clients combined receiving any form of MOUD), and disaggregation by race reveals notable racial disparities in treatment retention across timepoints.
This presentation will review statewide findings from STR/SOR treatment programs from the last five years, offer insights into why low-barrier MOUD treatment continues to be difficult to access and implement, reflect on lessons learned through Medication First dissemination, and provide tangible recommendations for Missouri’s future substance use treatment funding and programming endeavors.

Objectives

1. Describe a summary of broad trends of Missouri’s STR/SOR treatment outcomes from the last five years
2. List three specific barriers to implementing and sustaining low-barrier medical treatment for opioid use disorder within specialty substance use disorder treatment programs
3. Identify two strategies for reducing racial disparities and improving opioid use disorder treatment outcomes for Black individuals in Missouri

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Psychotherapy with Black Clients: Rumbling with Theory, Feelings, and Meaning-Making PART 2

Parasol I

 

Speaker(s):

Boddie, Courtney, PhD

Thompson-Gibson, Lisa, MA, MA

Description

From theories of human development (Erickson, Piaget, Kohlberg, Vygotsky) to models of personality and change (Freud, Rogers, Beck, Ellis), most clinicians are taught from a euro-centric worldview. As grounded in Ellis and Deitz’s (2018) contribution of community and environmental factors to the ACES framework, it is imperative that we rumble with the conceptual and affective gaps a euro-centric perspective creates when attempting to work with specific communities, like Black-identified clients.

Expanding on the previous year’s presentation advocating for updates to the ACES framework, part one will support participants in conceptualizing discrimination as a broad community/environmental factor that can disrupt human development and examining the influencing role of discrimination in early childhood development (e.g., access to resources, help-seeking tendencies, development of self-regulatory processes, parenting practices).

In part two, participants will be supported in examining personal biases that are a byproduct of under-education on and underexposure to Blackness. Through the use of art-making, participants will explore personal feelings and meaning to prepare for the refinement of clinical skills.

Objectives

1. Critically examine the clinical implications of the absence of Blackness in the training of mental health providers
2. Grapple with feelings that may impede capacity to humanize Black clients
3. Explore personal meaning surrounding counseling Black clients

Boddie Presentation