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Report on Implementation of the Emotion Regulation Skills System for Cognitively Challenged Clients

Speaker(s):

Nina Chastain, MSW, LCSW

Presentation: Dialectical Behavior Therapy has been proven to be a treatment of choice for clients with severe emotional dysregulation problems. However, for clients who also have intellectual disabilities, the treatment is not always as successful.  Julie F. Brown, MSW, PhD, Director of Program Development at The Justice Resource Institute’s Integrated Clinical Services in Rhode Island, developed a DBT-Informed Skills System that addresses difficulties intellectually disabled clients face. She recognized that intellectually disabled clients “require an adequate, synthesized framework or system to teach skills to clients in a form that they can understand, apply, and generalize.”  Dr. Brown developed The Skills System over the course of many years of working with her own clients and providing comprehensive DBT.  Three key elements were integrated: (1) the work of James Gross, PhD., in emotion regulation; (2) cognitive load theory (Sweller, 2010); and (3) ongoing collaboration with her own clients.  Ms. Brown ended up with a Skills System framework that helps clients know which skill to choose and how many skills to implement given his or her level of emotion in each situation.  This presentation will highlight some of the main differences of the skills and the System tools that Julie Brown carefully and effectively developed.  The participants will hear how cognitively-challenged clients in a residential psychiatric hospital setting who had previously been treated using traditional, comprehensive DBT encountered and reacted to the new DBT-Informed Skills System.  The lessons learned from implementing the model will also be shared along with data highlighting important areas of change for the clients.

Objectives:

  • Review some of the fundamental knowledge of behavioral health and disability.
  • This training describes in a nutshell established approaches of DBT and the new treatment of DBT-informed therapy for cognitively challenged clients.
  • Provide an overview of the Skills system in order for learners to see if this treatment approach would work for their population.
  • Describe how complex emotion regulation challenges are broken down into manageable problems using a series of steps that people at many different skill levels can apply.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The Re-Examination of Psychopathy and Antisocial Personality Disorder

Speaker(s):

Mark Moore, MA, LPC, NCC and Rachel Colwick, MA, LPC, NCC

Presentation: The presentation will consist of a contemporary review of the literature involving psychopathy and antisocial personality disorder, along with their relationships to substance abuse and sexually violent predators. Further, the similarities and differences between psychopathy and antisocial personality disorder will be discussed; as well as, what is considered best practice in terms of clinical interventions or strategies for working with these populations. Specifically, but not limited to, the presentation will address the challenges professionals might face in working with these populations in variety of settings such as clinical outpatient or inpatient, prisons, hospitals, and other medical facilities, to name a few.

Objectives:

  • Interpret the differences and commonalities between psychopathy and antisocial personality disorder
  • Recognize the prevalence among different populations (i.e. sexual offenders, non-sexual offenders, and substance abuse) within a variety of professional settings
  • Explain what is considered best practice regarding clinical strategies or interventions in working with these populations
  • Define the common countertransference reactions professionals will face and the skills to manage them

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Cooper, Caroline, CMPS

Caroline S. Cooper is Certified Missouri Peer Specialist (CMPS), having passed her exam in August 2016. She works part time as a peer rehab specialist for Truman Behavioral Health-Employment Services. She has led volunteer support groups and provided one-on-one support for individuals with emotional/behavioral health issues for many years. Caroline is also a writer and has a blog series titled “Memoirs of Mental Illness” in which she shares inspirational stories from individuals who live with mental illness. Their testimonies demonstrate that hope, treatment, recovery plans, and perseverance can lead to a full, productive life. Caroline has a Bachelor of Music and a Master of Bible & Theology. Caroline and her husband have been married for almost 34 years and have 4 children and 2 grandchildren.

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Supervision and the Code of Ethics

 

 

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Supervision and the Code of Ethics *Ethics Hours

Speaker(s):

Terri Cooley-Bennett, MSW, LCSW and Caroline Cooper, CMPS

Presentation:  Mental Health Professionals supervise in different capacities: for licensees, students, and employees. Sometimes they are clinical supervisors only or employment supervisors only and sometimes have a dual role.  How do Ethics Codes impact the supervision experience?  What types of ethical dilemmas arise for the supervisor?  What do various ethics codes say about supervision?  All of this will be covered in this presentation which meets the Ethics Requirement for Social Workers, Substance Abuse Professionals, Certified Counselors and possibly others.

Objectives:

  • Several Codes of Ethics including NBCC and NASW will be reviewed that relate to supervision of employees, students, licensees including social workers, counselors, etc.
  • Ethical dilemmas in regards to supervision in a behavioral health setting or substance use treatment setting will be discussed and ways for appropriately managing these dilemmas
  • Supervision strategies will be discussed in order to facilitate the prevention of ethical violations

Slides:

Cooley Bennett_Cooper_20170601 STI SUPERVISION AND THE CODE OF ETHICS

Cooley-Bennett- NASW CODE OF ETHICS AND INTERDISCIPLINARY TEAMS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Sexual and Gender Diversity in a Healthcare Setting: Providing Affirmative Care

Speaker(s):

Ryan Cox, PhD

Presentation: This presentation is designed to provide working knowledge of the unique needs, and various disparities, affecting the LGBT community when seeking healthcare, both physical and mental. Transgender individuals have differing needs, and face differing barriers, than do lesbian, gay, and bisexual individuals. This is delineated within the presentation, with time spent focused on both. Some of the topics addressed include: terminology and its ever-changing landscape; specific disparities, both physical and mental, experienced by transgender and LGB individuals; the difference between being “LGBT friendly” and “LGBT affirming”, and what it means, exactly, to be affirming; how to create an affirming practice; how to broach, and talk about, the topics of sexual and gender identity, and further, why that is important; as well as challenging participants to examine and reconsider some of their own assumptions and biases, maybe even assumptions they may hold about themselves. The presentation is intended to be between 45-60 minutes, with time for discussion and Q & A afterwards.

Objectives:

  • Gain a better and working understanding of the unique needs and challenges facing the LGBT population when attempting to access healthcare of any kind.
  • Understand what being transgender means, including differentiating it from sex, gender and sexual orientation.
  • Gain tips for speaking to patients and clients about sexual orientation, gender identity, and describe why it is important to do so.

Slides:

Cox_Ryan_STI2017

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

Speaker(s):

Rachel Jones, MEd, LPC

Presentation:  Caring for others is hard work. Healthcare providers and human service professionals can sometimes grow tired with the demands of the job and exposure to trauma. This presentation will help professionals learn to recognize the warning signs of Compassion Fatigue and how it impacts their personal and work life. It will also help those in Administration/Management recognize how Compassion Fatigue impacts the workforce and organization. Learning how to change attitudes about stress and developing self-care plans can make a difference. Participants will walk away with ideas about how to create a culture in their organization that promotes awareness of Compassion Fatigue and strives to help employees achieve Compassion Satisfaction.

Objectives:

  • Discuss how the support that professionals provide to clients and families with behavioral health, substance use, trauma and disabilities needs impacts their personal and work life.
  • Site recognize warning signs and symptoms of Compassion Fatigue and understand approaches and techniques to create Compassion Satisfaction and wellness.
  • Recognize the impact Compassion Fatigue has on an organization and understand approaches and strategies to support employees that experience compassion fatigue and create a workplace culture of Compassion Satisfaction.

Slides:

Jones_Compassion Fatigue Training

Jones-Self-Care Plan

Jones-Organizational Self-Care Plan

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Recovery Works

Speaker(s):

Christine White, LPN, CMPS

Presentation:  This presentation will present facts from Christine’s road to recovery. She has BPD, severe anxiety, OCD and Bi-Polar along with manic depression. She will give symptoms of each illness, meds that were effective and non-effective along with treatment approaches. Some treatment approaches she will discuss are therapy 1:1, group therapy, DBT and Shock treatments.

Objectives:

  • Identify concepts and emotions while dealing hands on with a mental health diagnosis
  • Explain and give rationale towards different behaviors associated with mental illness
  • Describe skills that can be utilized to assist with management of a behavioral issues

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents: Identification, Treatment and Prevention

Speaker(s):

Christopher Maglio, PhD

Presentation: Anxiety and anxiety-related disorders are being diagnosed in children and adolescents at alarming rates and at earlier and earlier ages. Unfortunately, anxiety is all too often not diagnosed or misdiagnosed in children and adolescents due to the differing symptoms or characteristics of childhood/adolescent anxiety and anxiety in adults. This presentation will begin by focusing on differentiating between childhood/adolescent anxiety and anxiety in adults to assure an accurate diagnosis. A variety of individual and family treatments/interventions and techniques will be addressed and explored in regard to different types of anxiety experienced by children/adolescents as well as anxiety associated with different locations/environments. Methods for the prevention or/or minimization of anxiety in children/adolescents will be addressed as will various explanations for why anxiety is being seen in younger and younger children. Numerous case studies and examples will be utilized throughout the presentation and a list of resources will be provided.  Participants will be encouraged to share their experience and expertise in regard to this area.

Objectives:

  • Provide a clear and concise description of childhood/adolescent anxiety that differentiates it from adult anxiety.
  • Describe interventions that can be implemented at school, at home, and in public that have been shown to decrease anxiety and that are appropriate based on child’s/adolescent’s reports.
  • Describe prevention strategies that have been implemented in public, at home, and at school that have been shown to minimize anxiety in children/adolescent

Slides:

Maglio_MIMH 2017 Spring Training Conference Presentation-Anxiety Maglio

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Anxiety Disorders-Are We Doing Enough to Help?

Speaker(s):

Tresa Dame, MSW, LPN

Presentation:  This presentation will cover at how a person with anxiety disorder feels; treatments used; if treatments are effective; and discuss if we can change our interactions to decrease the anxiety in an anxious person. This presentation will cover a description of anxiety/panic/agoraphobia, anxiety and how it affects a person from the person’s point of view, ways anxiety is treated (inpatient and outpatient), medications used to treat these disorders, and substance use among the persons. There will also be a group discussion about if treatments are really effective and if it warrants a disability. We will also have a group discussion about ideas and thoughts on better ways we can interact with these folks.

Objectives:

  • Anxiety Disorder/Panic/Agoraphobia will be discussed and a general knowledge of all three will be learned including person’s attitudes towards, definitions, and statistics.
  • Substance use among the persons with the disorders will be discussed.
  • It will be established how often those who have the disorder(s) are disabled by the disorder.

Slides:

Dame_Anxiety Disorders Are We Doing Enough to Help

 

 

 

 

 

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What Are They Using Now?! Understanding the Current, Constantly Shifting Drug Trends

Speaker(s):

Bob James, MA, LPC

Presentation:  Current drug trends are ever changing. Counselors, social workers, nurses, doctors, police officers, deputy juvenile officers, Judges all need to know these trends to spot problems and provide early intervention. How has marijuana changed since the mid-1990s? What is Wax, Dips, Bars, Sizzurp, Robotrippin? How is the internet used by teens looking for information? Why is synthetic Marijuana so popular and abundant? This Presentation answers these questions for the professional, and provides an open forum for questions that need to be asked.

Objectives:

  • Review the four categories of mood altering chemicals, and what each does to the bodies central nervous system.
  • Describe the process of making and distributing Synthetic Marijuana, and its prevalence in our community today.
  • List 5 over the counter medications that people abuse regularly to get high.
  • List possible consequences and signs of usage from using synthetic and research chemicals.

Slides:

James_What are they using now