Speaker(s):

Nathan Honeycutt, MSC

Presentation: Processing past choices can be one of the most challenging parts of therapy. This presentation will focus on how to help clients accept what they have done, forgive self, and learn from the past. The presentation will work to give tools to staff on how to help clients identify their thinking errors and move forward in life.

Objectives:

• Review accountability of past
• Review acceptance vs approval of past choices
• Review forgiveness of self and others
• Review learning from choices
• Review preparing for a different future

Slides and Handouts:

Honeycutt_Part 1_What I Have Done Does Not Define Who pt 1

 

Speaker(s):

Kay Glidden, MS

Beth Reynolds Lewis, BS

Presentation: Is your bucket empty? Do you need replenished? You pay an emotional price for doing the work that you do. Some of us hear difficult stories daily and are frequently exposed to traumatic details from the individuals, families and co-workers we are working with. We are not always able to help everyone who comes to us for help – the demands often outweigh what we can offer. Compassion fatigue has been called “a disorder that affects those who do their work well” (Figley, 1994). The level of compassion fatigue staff experience can ebb and flow. Even very healthy staff with optimal life/work balance and self-care strategies can experience compassion fatigue. Conference attendees will improve their understanding of compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, burn out and moral distress. Attendees will identify their signs and symptoms of compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma and learn specific tools and hands-on resources to increase health and resiliency.

Objectives:

• Review the definitions of compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, burn out and moral distress
• Identify the signs and symptoms of compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, burn out and moral distress
• Utilize hands-on tools and resources for building resiliency

Slides and Handouts:

Glidden_Compassion Fatigue Resources4-18CR

Glidden_EFFECTIVE ORGANIZATIONAL& individual STRATEGIES FOR ADDRESSING COMPASSION FATIGUECR

Glidden_CFT VT – Signs and SymptomsCR

Glidden_one page R3 CF journal

 

 

Speaker(s):

Thomas Kuciejczyk-Kernan, MD

Rajeev John, MSW, LCSW

Presentation: Self-Care is fundamental to healthcare, both physical and emotional. As chronic stress and trauma affect one’s physiological and emotional functioning and well-being, it is important that mind-body wellness and building resilience is part of the health care. Mind-body medicine is an integrative approach that focuses on the interaction between the mind and the body and the powerful ways these interactions affect our emotional and physical health. The core of this approach is self-care with mind-body skills that relieve toxic stress, help heal from trauma, and build resilience. Mind-Body skills are the most effective evidence-based way to reduce the adverse effects of stress which contributes to all chronic illness, mental and physical.

In this approach, self-care skills such as various types of meditations and mindfulness practices are used to foster self-awareness and positive self-direction. This presentation will explain how active meditation and mindfulness meditations are useful in improving physical and emotional well-being. We will explain the physiology and how such self-care practices can reverse the adverse effects of stress and trauma. We will also describe how we use this approach at Affinia healthcare to promote wellness among our patients. This ninety-minute presentation will also include experiencing two of these skills, one quiet mindfulness meditation and one active meditation.

Objectives:

• Describe Mind-Body Medicine and how this self-care approach can be used for stress management, addressing chronic conditions, trauma and building resilience
• Describe physiology of stress and trauma and how they affect physical and emotional well-being as well as the physiology of stress management
• Instruct how to use two different types of self-care skills approach to promote wellness and to build resilience

Slides and Handouts:

Kuciejczyk Kernan and John_STI 2018- Using Self Care Skills-A Mind Body Skills Approach-final

 

 

 

Speaker(s):

Bob Bertolino, PhD, LPC, LMFT, NCC, CRC, AAMFT, NBCCH

Presentation: Fifty years of research around the question, “What works in therapy?” has revealed key findings that should be part of all practitioners’ knowledge base. One of these findings is who provides the treatment is a far more reliable predictor of outcome than what model is used. Further, randomized control trials (RCTs) have demonstrated that some providers consistently achieve better outcomes than others. The results of higher-performers includes improved resource management, briefer treatment duration, decreased dropout rates, and greater benefit of services. How do the most effective practitioners consistently achieve better outcomes? They employ real-time Feedback-Informed Treatment (FIT) strategies. In fact, routine and ongoing real-time feedback has shown to improve outcomes between 28-65%. FIT is approved by the Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) as an evidence-based practice and is listed on the National Registry of Evidence-Based Programs and Practices (NREPP). This training involves exploration of major research findings and the use of FIT strategies to improve the impact of each interaction and the overall benefit of services. Participants will learn how to use FIT strategies and begin using those new learnings immediately. This workshop involves discussion, case examples, and video demonstrations. PowerPoint slides will also be used to enhance the learning experience of each participant.

Objectives:

• Identify three challenges to improving therapeutic effectiveness
• Describe two strategies to immediately improve the benefit of services
• Describe two strategies for responding to lack of improvement or deterioration

Slides and Handouts:

Bertolino_Improving Psychotherapy-MIMH (H) (Bertolino) (06-01-18)