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Keynote: A Spectrum of Clinical and Practical Applications Derived from Behavior Analysis

Paradise Ballroom AB

 

Speaker(s):

Friman, Patrick, PhD

Description

The core idea of behavior analysis is revolutionary in that attributes the source or cause of problem behavior not to the misbehaving person him or herself but to what has happened to that person over the course of their life up to the exhibition of the behavior. This is one of the most powerful idea ever invented by mankind for understanding, knowing, and dealing with human behavior, especially when it is a problem (because it seeks not to fix the blame but rather seeks to fix the problem instead). And virtually everything this idea touches improves. It has revolutionized approaches to habit disorders, incontinence, addictions, delinquency, and numerous other major concerns of our time. Still, the idea has only begun to be harnessed. Not only can it be used to improve the lives of clients in need, but it can also be used to improve the lives of their providers, and indeed the lives of all people. This talk will describe several options derived from behavior analysis the application of which could exert a powerful beneficial influence on everyday life.

Objectives

1. Attendees will be able to describe the core idea of behavior analysis.

2. Attendees will be to describe a way to use emotion to enhance persuasion.

3. Attendees will learn ways to enhance motivating consequences

4. Attendees will be able to describe a way to use choice to reduce inappropriate responses to aversive circumstances

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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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Not Broken: Empowering Young Adults with a Mental Health Diagnosis

Leeward 76-77

 

Speaker(s):

Gerlach, Jennifer, MSW, LCSW

Description

Young adults facing significant mental health challenges such as Bipolar Disorder or a First Episode of Psychosis are often difficult to engage. Still, the research suggests that early intervention can be pivotal in encouraging a full recovery. In this workshop we will explore roadblocks to engagement from an ACT and Recovery-Oriented Cognitive Therapy lens as well as strategies to improve sense of empowerment in this population

Objectives

1. Define empowerment as well as what it means in a clinical setting
2. Utilize strategies to assist clients experiencing psychosis and other symptoms take back a sense of self-agency
3. Describe how mental health conditions and coercive treatment strategies can be disempowering
4. Employ strategies deriven from ACT and Recovery-Oriented Cognitive Therapy to Understand Beliefs underlying a lack of sense of self-agency

 

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Ethics of Self Care

Paradise Ballroom C

 

Speaker(s):

McAndrew, Craig, MA, LPC, LCAC, LMHC

Description

Self Care is essential for our performance of Counseling duties as well as to preserve our ethics. If we are feeling burned out, then we may have already come close to that ethical line or maybe even crossed it without realizing it. This presentation is focused on us making our self care a priority so we don’t approach that line.

Objectives

1. Review ethical guidelines
2. Review common ethical violations
3. Review what self care is
4. Describe what creating a practice of self care looks like

McAndrew – Boundaries

McAndrew – 12 steps for therapists

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Compassion Fatigue for Behavioral Health Workers

Leeward 74-75

 

Speaker(s):

Sandidge, Isaac, MA

Description

This course is intended for behavioral health workers who wish to learn more about how experiencing traumatic events, either directly or indirectly, as a first responder reacting to an emergency or crisis situation may impact their professional and personal wellbeing. Taught through a behavioral health (mental health and substance use) lens, the instructor will incorporate lecture, PowerPoint and activities.

Objectives

Define and discuss the impact of trauma, vicarious trauma, and burnout on professional and personal wellbeing
Identify compassion fatigue and burnout warning signs
Describe individualized self-care and resiliency strategies to mitigate the damaging impacts of trauma and associated stress responses

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Help That Helps: Understanding Adverse Childhood Experiences

Wingate 62-63

 

Speaker(s):

Clary, Pam, PhD, MSW

Frye, Jana, MSW, LCSW

Description

This presentation will provide an overview of the ACE Study which is the largest study of its kind, with over 17,000 participants. It was developed and co-sponsored by Kaiser Permanente (managed care consortium) of San Diego, California, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia in the early ‘90s. Dr. Vincent Felitti and Dr. Rob Anda are the co-principal investigators of the ACE Study. In addition, specific helps (tools) will be discussed including the four resiliency factors that make a difference and help begin to create self-healing communities.

What’s predictable is preventable – because of recent discoveries in neuroscience, epigenetics, epidemiology, and resilience studies, we can understand how protection, prevention, and resilience promotion can profoundly improve health, safety & productivity, and reduce public and private costs now and for generations to come.

It should be noted that both Professor Frye and I are Master ACEs Trainers. We have permission to use the slides developed for this presentation.

Objectives

1. Discuss ACEs and its impact to our communities
2. Identify four resiliency factors used to build self-healing communities.
3. Identify four resiliency factors used to build self-healing communities.

Clary- Frye Presentation

Clary-Frye Form