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Grainger, Rachel, MSW, LCSW

Rachel Grainger is a licensed clinical social worker currently practicing at Citizens Memorial Healthcare. Rachel attended Missouri State University to receive her BSW and then returned to complete the MSW program. Rachel has spent her eight-year career in healthcare with CMH. She worked in the main hospital assisting with care for Med/Surg, ICU, OB, ER and Geriatric psych patients. Rachel was a part of the Behavioral Assessment Team for CMH ED for 4 years completing acute psychiatric screenings and assisting with inpatient psychiatric care placement or outpatient resources. She worked as a hospice and home health social worker as well as bereavement coordinator for CMH Homecare services for 4 years. Rachel has also been an adjunct instructor for Bolivar Technical College and Southwest Baptist University. Courses taught include Child Abuse & Neglect, Gerontology, Neurodevelopmental Disorders, HBSE I, HBSE II, and Lifespan Development. Rachel is currently a therapist at Butterfield Park Medical Clinic in Bolivar, MO providing outpatient counseling for individuals age nine to adulthood.

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Applications of CBT with Kids: Basic Strategies for Making the Move to Child Therapy

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Swopes, Rachael, PhD

Rachael M. Swopes is a licensed clinical psychologist. She earned a doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Dr. Swopes completed a child clinical psychology internship at Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C., and a psychology residency at Behavioral Healthcare of Rural Missouri, Inc., Stockton. Dr. Swopes specializes in applying evidence-based practice to the treatment of childhood trauma and behavior disorders. She has advanced training in Trauma-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) and is a certified therapist for Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT). Other areas of specialty include childhood traumatic grief, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), cognitive restructuring for trauma exposed adults, assessment and treatment of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and behavior disorders, sleep management therapy for sleep disorders and trauma, developmental and IQ testing, and risk assessments (such as suicide and cutting). Dr. Swopes is currently in full time practice at CMH Pediatric Clinic in Bolivar, Missouri.

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Applications of CBT with Kids: Basic Strategies for Making the Move to Child Therapy

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Applications of CBT with Kids: Basic Strategies for Making the Move to Child Therapy

Speaker(s):

Rachael Swopes, PhD

Rachel Grainger, MSW, LCSW

Presentation: This presentation will focus on applying cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), in therapy work with young children (ages five to adolescence). Presentation is intended to provide basic strategies for how certain CBT skills (e.g., teaching coping skills, teaching thought restructuring) might look in a child setting. This presentation is intended for those who are already somewhat familiar with CBT and with therapy in general, but perhaps are considering expanding their work to include children. Presentation will pull from established techniques from play and behavioral therapies, as well as the clinician’s knowledge and experience as a child psychologist. Presentation will also include perspectives from an LCSW transitioning from adult to child work. This presentation is not intended to provide full training in CBT, but hopes to provide an overview of CBT-based techniques to better inform practice with children.

Objectives:

  1. Define evidence-based practice and cognitive behavioral therapy
  2. Describe at least three specific methods for teaching feelings identification and coping skills to young children
  3. List at least three differences between adults and children to be aware of when working with child clients

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Keynote Address – Addiction: A Futurist’s Perspective

Speaker(s):

Omar Manejwala, MD

Presentation: Healthcare, in general, and addiction treatment specifically, are poised to experience dramatic shifts over the next 5-10 years. Increasing payer pressure to capture, report and improve outcomes, and to control costs and alter the trajectory of the illness will result in wholesale shifts in the way addictions are managed.  Broader societal goals of increasing access to care, improving the efficacy and utilization of screening, prevent the onset of these disorders, and manage the widespread criminalization of substance use disorders can be achieved if philosophical objections and technological hurdles can be negotiated. 

In this talk, a futurist’s perspective on addiction will be presented, with an eye to briefly describing the forces that led us to our current state, and describing changes that might allow us to navigate to improved global addiction outcomes. In particular, an emphasis on broader, well-defined principles of healthcare innovation and their potential application to addiction will be discussed.  Attendees will leave with a broader perspective on how they themselves can participate in defining the future of addiction treatment.

Objectives:

  1. Describe several trends in addiction epidemiology, prevention and treatment, and describe potential future trajectories.
  2. Appraise sociopolitical forces that may serve to shape future approaches to addiction management
  3. Estimate/predict the role of “big data” in defining future approaches to addiction management
  4. Forecast potential technological innovations and their impact on addictions, including, for example, the Internet of Things.
  5. Review the central features of healthcare innovation and propose how these might manifest in the future of addiction prevention and treatment.

 

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Psychogenic Polydipsia

Speaker(s):

Fei Cao, MD, PhD

Presentation:

This case report was from a patient who was a long-term resident from the Center of Behavioral Medicine (CBM) with the primary diagnosis of Schizophrenia, alcohol use disorder, Stimulant use disorder (methamphetamine), Hallucinogen use disorder (LSD), and Cannabis use disorder. He stayed in the CBM for years without remarkable physical complaint initially. One day he went to Gastroenterology (GI) clinic with CBM staff for routine work-up after treating his asymptomatic hepatitis C, and he told the gastroenterologist that he was craving for water with epigastric pain. Further work-up revealed he had mild bilateral hydroureteronephrosis through abdominal CT and chronic hyponatremia through repeated comprehensive chemical panel (CMP). Further monitoring indicated he had approximately 15 L urine output every day. Then he was diagnosed with Psychogenic polydipsia by multiple-discipline team using deprivation test with and without desmopressin. This presentation’s goals are to introduce clinical features of Psychogenic polydipsia, its gold diagnostic test and differential diagnosis, and its management plan (especially for patients with chronic and/or severe mental illness). 

Objectives:

  1. Introduce clinical features of Psychogenic polydipsia.
  2. Understand the diagnostic criteria for Psychogenic polydipsia and its related differential diagnosis.
  3. Understand the comprehensive approaches to manage Psychogenic polydipsia

 

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Cao, Fei, MD, PhD

Dr. Fei Cao finished his MD and Ph. D combined program in Tongji Medical school, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, one of the top medical schools in China. His clinical and research interests initially focused on interventional pain management. In 2009, Fei went to MD. Anderson Cancer Center at Houston, Texas, to seek his postdoctoral training of comprehensive management for advanced cancer pain. In 2010, he moved to the Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, and continued his research in pain and other neurodegenerative diseases. Under the supervision of some top neuroscientists in the USA, Fei gradually realized integrated approaches with further understanding underlying neurological and psychiatric mechanisms would be the only solution for chronic pain management in the long run. Then Fei switched his clinical interests to clinical neuroscience (Psychiatry).

Currently Fei is a second-year resident working at Department of Psychiatry, the University of Missouri in Kansas City. He is planning to apply for pain fellowship after his residency training and his career goal is to help patients with chronic pain through an integrated neuropsychiatric way. 

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Psychogenic Non-Epileptic Seizures

Psychogenic Polydipsia

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Psychogenic Non-Epileptic Seizures

Speaker(s):

Fei Cao, MD, PhD

Presentation: This case report was from a patient who was seen by neurologists at Truman medical Center with seemingly intractable seizure activities on the maximal dosing of multiple anti-seizure medication trials. After long-term follow up and multiple-time EEG testing, patient was finally diagnosed with Psychological non-epileptic seizure (PNES), also known as pseudo-seizure in the layman’s term. The presentation’s goals are to introduce some background knowledge about PNES, highlight the difference between PNES and epilepsy, and upgrade the new diagnostic criteria of PNES from DSM-V and novel management approaches. The presentation aims to reach a wide audience of practitioners in the field and helps them further understand PNES, which may be severely underestimated and unrecognized among patients with mental illness.

Objectives:

  1. Introduce clinical features of PNES
  2. Understand the DSM-5 criteria for PNES and related Conversion Disorder
  3. Upgrade new approaches to manage PNES

 

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Successfully Implementing a Statewide Roll-out of an Evidence-Based Family Strengthening Curriculum Series in a Community Reentry System

Speaker(s):

Ted Strader, MS

Christopher Kokoski, BS, CPS

Presentation: Learn how the evidence-based Creating Lasting Family Connections® (CLFC) Curriculum Series developers successfully conducted a statewide roll out as the focal point of the Children of Incarcerated Parents (COIP) project. The Series includes the Original CLFC Program for youth and adults, the CLFC Marriage Enhancement Program for re-entering couples and the CLFC Fatherhood Program: Family Reunification for men and their families. The overarching goal of COIP is to mobilize service systems throughout the state to build resiliency, develop resistance skills for substance use and address trauma in children of incarcerated parents and their families using the CLFC Curriculum Series. CLFC developers trained professional and passionate grass roots community members through the Urban Minority Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Outreach Program (UMADAOP), a federation of 11 agencies across Ohio strategically poised to fulfill the ambitious goals of the project. Come learn how this can be done!

Objectives:

  1. Identify the key components of an effective statewide roll-out of an evidence-based program in a community reentry system
  2. Describe the essential elements of an effective statewide rollout of an evidence-based approach to serve reentry men, women and their children
  3. Apply insights on lessons learned from the state-wide scaling of evidence-based programs
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Kokoski, Christopher, BS, CPS

Christopher Kokoski is certified as a Master (or National) Trainer of the Creating Lasting Family Connections® (CLFC) Curriculum. He is a Certified Prevention Specialist (CPS) who has played a critical role in bringing over 3 ½ million dollars of prevention services to Louisville, KY. In 2015, he was recognized as the Certified Prevention Specialist of the year for the state of Kentucky. After visiting Brazil and Mexico, and living in Germany for three years, he developed a deep passion for touching the lives of people of different cultures. Christopher has presented at local, state and national conferences on a wide range of topics including behavioral change, body language, HIV prevention, substance abuse prevention, storytelling and more. His publications include co-authoring articles published in peer-reviewed journals, the CLFC Fatherhood Adaptation Guidebook (Resilient Futures Network, LLC, 2012), several novels and numerous articles. For more information, please visit our website at www.copes.org.

Presentation(s): 

Successfully Implementing a Statewide Roll-out of an Evidence-Based Family

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Strader, Ted, MS

Ted Strader is the Executive Director of COPES, Inc. and the Managing Partner of the Resilient Futures Network, LLC.  He is a proud husband and father and a nationally recognized author, curriculum developer, trainer, motivational speaker, and publisher on topics related to fatherhood and marriage programming, parenting skills, family strengthening, and the prevention of substance abuse, violence and prison recidivism.  His highly acclaimed Creating Lasting Family Connections® curriculum series is used throughout the U.S. and several other countries. This program held three separate listings on the previously active National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices (NREPP), three separate listings in the Encyclopedia of Couple and Family Therapy and is recognized on several other national and international best practice lists.  In his book, “Building Healthy Individuals, Families, and Communities: Creating Lasting Connections”, published in 2000, he introduced the concept of “Connect-Immunity”.  Strader credits his theory of “Connect-Immunity” for his success in designing effective programs across multiple fields of study leading to numerous published articles in peer reviewed journals and inclusion on best practice lists.  In 2013, Mr. Strader was named one of the Top 100 Leaders in the U.S. by the John C. Maxwell Leadership Team. 

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Successfully Implementing a Statewide Roll-out of an Evidence-Based Family