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This presentation focuses on current best-practices in the field of sex offender risk assessment, and methods for identifying treatment targets.
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This session will provide an overview of group counseling to include basic considerations in providing group counseling by answering the questions of why, who, what, when and where!
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This presentation will review risk factors for experiencing opioid overdose events and will highlight how multiple distinct types of clinical pictures lead to increased risk. Specifically, pathways reflecting “pure” substance misuse histories, mismanagement of acute or chronic pain treatments, respiratory illnesses, and comorbid mental and physical health conditions will be reviewed, with attention paid to the unique vulnerabilities of individuals with each presentation. Guidance on how to most effectively discuss and protect against opioid overdose within various health care settings will be provided.
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This skill-building workshop will address ethics in the clinical relationship. A partial list of topics includes: Eight Principles that Can Help with Ethical Decision Making in the Clinical Relationship; Achieving Clinical Excellence; The Impact of the Counselor’s Unfinished Business on Ethical Decisions; The Use of Countertransference as a Tool to Achieve Excellence in the Clinical Relationship and to Avoid Ethical Dilemmas; Establishing Healthy Boundaries; Addressing Multiple Relationships with Clients; Strategies for Avoiding Burnout and Compassion Fatigue to Avoid Ethical Violations in the Clinical Relationship; Six Strategies for Leading an Ethical Life and the use of the NASW code of ethics to address ethical dilemmas presented via case vignettes in an interactive manner. This promises to be a fun learning experience.
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Clinicians from Fulton State Hospital will discuss using creative expressions (such as art, movement, and writing) with individuals, groups and in campus-wide projects to facilitate recovery, healing and understanding of client experiences. Discussion will cover using supplemental artistic activities in groups and individual therapy, both as learning and expressive tools; methods to encourage clients to develop upon personal interests in the arts; and how creative expressions can help clients manage emotional dysregulation, work through trauma histories, distract from residual psychotic symptoms, and build personal competencies despite mental and physical disabilities. Workshop attendees will view examples of clients’ individual art, group projects, and campus-wide expressions such as FSH’s Pillows of Hope. And best of all, attendees will participate in live expressive activities in the workshop!
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Creative Healing Bedsworth and Reed Lohmeyer – Slides in PDF format
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Catherine Adams, LMSW, ACSW, CAADC
RAISE-NAVIGATE is a Coordinated Specialty Care model for early intervention for psychosis. This model provides a team approach to wellness and recovery and recognizes the important and necessary role that families play in their loved one’s recovery. This session will review the Family Education component of NAVIGATE and will focus on areas such as engagement and retention of families, need for education and information, building on family’s resilient qualities, utilizing a shared decision-making approach and tailoring the intervention for each individual family.
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Richard Young, MSW, MDiv, LCSW, CSAT, CMAT
The goal of this program is to present up to date information on how digital technology is impacting sexual behavior, dating, and intimacy among people of all ages. We will discuss how technology is generating a “new breed” of sexually addicted individuals whose brains get literally hijacked by an unlimited online world. The goal of the presentation is to give clinicians information on how to assess and learn tools and resources to assist clients in their treatment and recovery from compulsive sexual and relational behaviors. Special emphasis will be given to treatment for spouses/partners who have been betrayed by their partner’s behaviors and address the trauma that these individuals often experience as a result.
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Through this presentation, participants will know and understand the definitions of trauma, toxic stress, and the prevalence of each. The presenter will review the ACE study and its relevance to today’s current medical issues. She will also discuss the medical impacts of trauma and how this affects interpersonal effectiveness, the five components of Trauma Informed and the meaning of it, and the four stages of being trauma informed. Participants will leave able to apply the first phase of awareness in their current roles.
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This is a two-part presentation
In part 2 of this presentation a description of each of the 6 core processes with ACT, including Acceptance/Willingness, Cognitive Defusion, Mindfulness, Contact with the Present Moment, Values, and Committed Action. Specific examples and experiential exercises will provide a clearer understanding of each of the core processes. Research in the field regarding the effectiveness of ACT will also be reviewed and updates will be provided about the work being done currently in the state of Missouri and the impact on the national ACT community that is taking place at the state level.
