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Smith, James, MEd, LPC, NCC

James M. Smith, M.Ed., LPC, NCC is the Director of Student Health and Counseling Services at Lincoln University of Missouri in Jefferson City. He has held various positions in the mental health field, including being a qualified mental health provider in the prison setting, a supervisor of the Integrated Dual Diagnoses Treatment team in a CPRC, and the director of a medication assisted opioid treatment program. He is nearing completion of his dissertation for a Ph.D. in Counselor Education and Supervision. His dissertation research is a qualitative study of factors that contribute to adult male survivors’ disclosure of childhood sexual abuse. He has provided supervision to counseling interns in the M.Ed. program at Lincoln University and to post-graduate counselors-in-training and provisional licensed professional counselors.

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Ethics of Supervising: Gatekeeping, Remediation, and Ethical Decision Making

 

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Ethics of Supervising: Gatekeeping, Remediation, and Ethical Decision Making

Speaker(s):

James Smith, MEd, LPC, NCC

Presentation:

This presentation focuses on the ethical principles from various Codes of Ethics, including ACA, NASW, and the Missouri Credentialing Board, which inform the practice of supervision. Counselors, social workers, and substance abuse professionals serve as gatekeepers of the professions through the supervision of students and post-graduate applicants for licensure. Supervision practice involves parallel processes, including full disclosure, personal development planning, and termination. In each of these stages, professionals can find help in ethical guidelines. This presentation will also demonstrate how professionals can apply ethical-decision making models to issues surrounding remediation and termination of supervision.

Objectives:

  1. Apply ethical principles to the practice of supervision
  2. Apply ethical codes (ACA and NASW) in initiation, full disclosure, personal development planning, and termination of supervision
  3. Apply an ethical decision-making model to issues related to remediation and termination of supervision
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Flynn, Stephanie, LCSW

Stephanie Flynn is a Southeast Missouri based LCSW practitioner who also specializes in eating disorders, substance use disorders, trauma work, co-occurring disorders, Aroma Freedom Therapy Technique, and rural social work. She has been in practice in social work for over 22 years with a multitude of experience from working in outpatient settings, residential lockdown settings, hospital settings, to starting behavioral school programs in Northeast Arkansas. She has worked for the state of Missouri doing foster and adoptive parent training, home studies, and adoptions, to working in medical social work. She started an outpatient office in Arkansas for a company which led to the opening of several others to serve those in the rural areas who had difficulty getting services, was the assistant clinical director in an agency, and was the director of a C-Star program. She has served on a state board in the past for adoption committee. She headed up committees in her agency for Co-Occurring Disorders and Eating Disorders. She currently serves at FCC Behavioral Health as an Outpatient Therapist serving a multitude of complicated cases as well as working closely with her supervisor and IT in improving efficiency through combining file information in order to simplify forms and admissions for therapists. She also does multiple presentations for her agency on several subjects and has worked closely with their C-Star programs in her spare time the last few years.

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Co-Occurring Disorders…the Epidemic of Today’s Clinician

 

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Co-Occurring Disorders…the Epidemic of Today’s Clinician

Speaker(s):

Stephanie Flynn, LCSW

Presentation:

Co-Occurring Disorders are ever present in our practice now more than ever and we must be educated as professionals on how to best meet the needs of our clients. We cannot keep looking at the person across from us and skipping the questions about substance use or alcohol use just assuming that they do not look the type or meet the age criteria in our mind. In my experience of practice, most people I have interviewed first used marijuana at about age 10-11 due to it being available in the home. This leads us to the point that we must be treating both issues with our client or we are simply putting a band-aid on the problem. This is a nation-wide crisis, but especially in the bootheel of Missouri we are losing this battle which means-we are losing lives. I have witnessed this first hand as many of my colleagues. IT IS AN EPIDEMIC. As professionals we must make it a priority as much as we have suicide in order to make a change. In this session I will address how we can make a change in our communities, in our offices, in our clients as well as in our professional treatment of our clients.

 

Objectives:

  1. Identify those with co-occurring disorders
  2. Utilize community programs to support goals in working towards helping this population of clients
  3. Describe ways clinicians can be more effective in working with this population

 

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Colwick, Rachel, MA

Rachel Colwick has her Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and is a Licensed Professional Counselor, as well as a National Board Certified Counselor. Rachel is published and co-authored in two articles in the Safer Society Press. Rachel’s first publication was in the summer of 2015 titled Resolving Trauma Related Issues in Contemporary Treatment of Offenders: A Brief Review. Her second publication was in the spring of 2016 titled A Meta-Change Maintenance Model: Effective Strategies to Maintain a Pro-Social Lifestyle. Further, Rachel is a member of the professional organization, Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers (ATSA). Rachel has a vast amount of clinical experience in working with those who have suffered from mood disorders, personality disorders (such as Borderline Personality Disorder, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, and Antisocial Personality Disorder), psychotic disorders, substance abuse, suicidal ideation, grief, trauma, and self-harming behaviors, to name a few. For over 5 years, Rachel has implemented process groups, psycho-educational groups, and individual therapy for those who are civilly committed sexual violent predators while at Missouri Sexual Offender Rehabilitation and Treatment Services (SORTS) and Minnesota Sex Offender Program (MSOP). Currently, Rachel is providing individual therapy to adults, teens, and children at an outpatient clinical mental health setting.

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Vicarious Trauma, Secondary Traumatic Stress, or Burnout? Implications for Mental Health Professionals

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Moore, Mark, MA

Mark Moore has his Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and is a Licensed Professional Counselor, as well as a National Board Certified Counselor. Mark is published and co-authored in two articles in the Safer Society Press. Mark’s first publication was in the summer of 2015 titled Resolving Trauma Related Issues in Contemporary Treatment of Offenders: A Brief Review. His second publication was in the spring of 2016 titled A Meta-Change Maintenance Model: Effective Strategies to Maintain a Pro-Social Lifestyle. Further, Mark is a member of the professional organization, Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers (ATSA). Mark has vast experience in working with a variety of populations such as those suffering from mood disorders, psychotic disorders, grief, trauma related experiences or PTSD, to name a few. Specifically, Mark has specialized in the treatment of sexual offenders starting with conducting group and individual therapy sessions for the Cape Girardeau, MO Probation and Parole. For the last several years, Mark has been working at Southeast Missouri Mental Health Center (SORTS-Sexual Offender Rehabilitation and Treatment Services) and has been implementing process groups, psycho-educational groups, and individual therapy for those who are civilly committed sexual violent predators. Mark also spent time conducting process groups and psycho-educational groups at Minnesota Sex Offender Program (MSOP).  Primarily, Mark has been working with those that have scored moderate to high psychopathy levels, Antisocial Personality Disorders, and Narcissistic Personality Disorders.

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Vicarious Trauma, Secondary Traumatic Stress, or Burnout? Implications for Mental Health Professionals

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Vicarious Trauma, Secondary Traumatic Stress, or Burnout? Implications for Mental Health Professionals

Speaker(s):

Mark Moore, MA

Rachel Colwick, MA

Presentation:

This presentation consists of an eclectic, contemporary review of the literature involving vicarious trauma, secondary traumatic stress, and burnout including their implications for professionals working in the mental health field. These constructs will be defined in-depth and opposing views from the present empirical studies will be fully explored as well as outlined. For example, a research study indicated that 60 percent of therapists who noted a personal history of trauma reported significantly more vicarious trauma symptoms (Pearlman and Mac Ian, 1995). Other studies have indicated that approximately 38 percent of social workers experience moderate to high levels of secondary traumatic stress (Cornille and Meyers, 1999; Dalton, 2001). Additionally, Devilly, Wright, & Varker (2009) found that being new to the profession along with beliefs about one’s safety and intimacy with others, which are subscales of vicarious trauma, predicted affective distress. This presentation will further describe the signs and symptoms for the development of these constructs including those professionals who are more at-risk. Case studies or personal stories will be highlighted to better illustrate the aforementioned. Due to counselors, social workers, psychologists, and the like are not the only professionals who are impacted by these entities, special attention will be applied to those in the judiciary system including judges, lawyers, and probation officers, to name a few. Self-care strategies along with protective factors will be discussed and experiential exercises will be utilized during this presentation. Furthermore, organizational components of vicarious trauma will be discussed. Specifically, changes in the organization culture, education, work environment, group support, workload, and supervision will be addressed that could help professionals to mitigate these effects.

Objectives:

  1. Define vicarious trauma, secondary traumatic stress, and burnout
  2. Identify the symptoms of traumatic stress and burnout including at risk populations
  3. Learn and utilize self-care strategies for mental health professionals
  4. Describe changes in the organizational culture with respect to vicarious trauma
  5. Discuss these constructs in their application to professionals within the mental health and judiciary system
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Christman, Sarah, MAT

Sarah Christman co-founded The Soulard School in 2005. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Human Development and Family Studies with a focus on Children in Group Settings from the University of Missouri, Columbia, and a Master’s in the Arts of Teaching with an emphasis on Children’s Creative Expression. Sarah currently serves as Executive Director of The Soulard School.

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Buddy Circles: A Model of Peer Support to Promote Social Emotional Wellbeing in Children

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Biehl, Haley, MAT

Haley Biehl has a background in special education. In her role as Assistant Principal at The Soulard School, she has worked collaboratively with staff, parents, and students to establish and sustain social emotional programming that address and support children’s wellbeing. With Sarah Christman, Haley developed Buddy Circles in 2012-2013 to create space for students to know each other more deeply, and partner together to identify needs and accomplish goals. Now, Haley and Sarah have shared this model locally with neighboring schools and organizations, and nationally via educational conferences. They are currently partnering with Webster University to draft a curriculum.

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Buddy Circles: A Model of Peer Support to Promote Social Emotional Wellbeing in Children

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Buddy Circles: A Model of Peer Support to Promote Social Emotional Wellbeing in Children

Speaker(s):

Haley Biehl, MAT

Sarah Christman

Presentation:

Buddy Circles are a peer-support approach for elementary schools that focus on the social-emotional wellbeing of children, and have proven to be an additional mode of support for students with disabilities, students who have experienced trauma, and students with low levels of esteem and resilience.

Objectives:

  1. Introduce a peer support approach that enhances support for students with disabilities, students experiencing trauma and/or discrimination, and students who require support due to extenuating circumstances
  2. Educate how to facilitate student-initiated discussion groups that promote advocacy, problem-solving, and mentoring in school-aged children
  3. Describe an approach to empower caregivers and providers with the language and tools necessary to increase community awareness and participation in the process
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