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Supported Education: Helping People with Education and Training Goals

-Cancelled-

Parasol II

 

Speaker(s):

Lynde, David, MSW

Description

This workshop provides an overview of the principles of Supported Education.  The workshop will address some of the strategies and techniques used to support people with mental illness in developing and obtaining their educational goals.

Objectives

1. Participants will identify the basic principles of Supported Education
2. Participants will be able to describe useful educational interventions and strategies.
3. Participants will be able to describe some of the challenges and associated strategies for engaging and working with local secondary school systems.
4. Participants will be able to identify some of the challenges and associated strategies used to help people with mental illness to be successful with post-secondary educational programs.

Lynde Presentation

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Adverse and Protective Childhood Experiences: Risk and Resilience

Leeward 76-77

 

Speaker(s):

Welch, Tim, PhD, LMFT

Burgen, Kailey, BS

Description 

This presentation will first provide a definition of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and discuss relevant research on the association between exposure to multiple ACEs and numerous negative physical, emotional and mental health outcomes in adulthood. The presentation will examine exposure to ACEs through the lens of the Family Stress and Resilience theoretical framework. This approach highlights the role and value of enhancing protective factors to promote resiliency in the context of exposure to ACEs. This presentation will describe modern approaches to addressing the impact of adverse childhood experiences and discuss evidence-based prevention and intervention strategies for clinical and mental health practitioners including utilizing a trauma-informed framework when working with individuals exposed to ACEs.

Objectives

1. Define adverse childhood experiences (ACEs)
2. Describe the negative effects of exposure to ACEs in adolescence and adulthood
3. Identify relevant protective factors to the harmful effects of exposure to ACEs
4. Describe evidence-based strategies for addressing the effects of of ACEs

Welch_STI_2023.pptx

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Contemporary Ethical Issues: Personal Worldview and Professional Acculturation

Paradise Ballroom C

 

Speaker(s):

Larkin, Nicole, MS, CDAC, SMFT

Likcani, Adriatik, PhD, LMFT

Woolery, Amber, BSW, CRADC

Description

This presentation on ethics is beyond the ‘typical’ topics of dual relationships and abuse of power with clients. It is about us as professionals and our personal worldview and professional acculturation. Why do ethical codes exist? What to do when my values and morals conflict with ethical codes? How to deal with ethical dilemmas? Can I talk about faith and spirituality with my clients? How do I apply evidence-based treatment with diverse populations? This session will help you find the answers to any of those questions and address other questions you may have. This is a session about ethics, values, morals, personal worldview and professional acculturation in the practice of treatment and recovery support for mental health and substance use disorders. Participants will learn about the ecology of substance use treatment and recovery support and issues that arise with scientific discovery such as evidence-based practices and effective interventions, medication assisted treatment/recovery, integration of faith-based approaches, etc. Such contemporary issues tend to challenge the stability of any professional and require of them to affirm or resist change. They will learn models of working through dissonance and finding a new stability. They will identify external and internal influences that impact their emerging worldview, personal and professional acculturation. Discussion with participants will be based on morals, values, sources of power and influence in the acculturation process, and the ethics of providing value-sensitive care and due care to individuals and families.

Objectives

1. Discuss how participants can use existing Codes of Ethics, including AAMFT, NBCC and NASW, to inform and reflect upon their personal worldview and professional acculturation
2. Identify personal lenses that cause dissonance among professionals in their practice
3. Recognize professional acculturation process through the ecology of substance use treatment and recovery support approaches
4. Identify issues that threaten status quo of the helper, prompt resistance or create dissonance, and require them to find a new professional stability

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We Understand Trauma for Patients…What About Us as Providers?

Leeward 74-75

 

Speaker(s):

Keeton, Zhanna, MBA, MA, LPC, CCTS, BA

Description

Let’s talk about how trauma affects providers in the behavioral health field and what we can do as peers and leaders of organizations.

Objectives

1. Describe the physiology behind trauma as it relates to providers.
2. Review realistic calming techniques in the workplace.
3. Discuss ways to shift towards supporting providers through policies and procedures.
4. Discuss expanding your perspective of compassion for fellow providers.

Keeton Presentation

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Experiential Therapy Approaches to Reveal Dynamics and Resolve Anger, Grief, and Relationship Issues

Windgate 62-63

 

Speaker(s):

Carpenter, John, MSW, LCSW

Description

Clients often feel their situation emotionally more than being able to express it into words. By helping them show their feelings in safe and even playful ways, they can actually see their issues more clearly as well as what needs to happen to resolve or change their lives. Like play therapy, these visual, metaphoric, and imagery techniques create a safe path for exploring difficult emotions and relationships. And the solutions seem easier to find and comprehend as well.

This session will help you clearly assess the hidden dynamics of couples and families. Experiential exercises will help clients work through complicated grief situations, pent-up anger, difficult losses, long-standing frustrations, and other intense emotions that seem stuck inside your client with no easy method of release or relief.

Objective

1. Describe three experiential approaches for assessing couples and families.
2. Identify five ways a therapist can bring dynamics out with visual props.
3. Describe at least three methods for releasing difficult emotions safely.
4. Describe the use of metaphoric imagery with couples for treatment.

Carpenter Handout

Carpenter Presentation

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Expanding Harm Reduction and Naloxone Access throughout Missouri – Overcoming Objections and Knocking Down Obstacles to Build New Paths Forward

Paradise Ballroom B

 

Speaker(s):

Green, Lauren, MSW

Connors, Liz, LCSW, CRADC

Description

Since third-party access to naloxone became legal in Missouri in 2017, naloxone access across the state has drastically increased. In 2018, the UMSL-MIMH team distributed nearly 11,000 naloxone kits through the Missouri Opioid/Heroin Overdose Prevention and Education (MO-HOPE) project and State Targeted Response (STR) grant. In 2022-2023 grant cycle, our team is on track to distribute over 197,000 kits through the following projects: Navigating Overdose Response Through Harm reduction (North*) project, State Overdose Response (SOR) grant, Expanding Naloxone Access and Community Training (ENACT) grant, Drugs Overdose, Trust and Safety (Connecting the DOTS) grant, and the Missouri Coordinating Overdose Response Partnerships and Support (MO-CORPS) grant. With this massive increase of resources, our programming can reach many more partners and sectors and better meet the needs of those we serve. This presentation will outline the various naloxone initiatives in Missouri and provide guidance on how both agencies and individuals in Missouri can get free access to naloxone and harm reduction training. Additionally, presenters will share their experiences expanding harm reduction programming across various sectors including obstacles they have encountered, lessons learned, and their strategies for overcoming common objections to harm reduction.

Objectives

1. Describe the plans for harm reduction growth across the state of Missouri
2. Review how to access naloxone in Missouri
3. Discover strategies for overcoming common objections to harm reduction
4. Describe implementation barriers that presenters have encountered and how they overcame them

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Barbershop Talk: Grief and Bereavement in Black Fathers After the Loss of a Spouse/Partner

Parasol I

 

Speaker(s):

Rose, Yvette, DNP

Description

The stereotype of Black fathers as “absent” and Black children as “fatherless”—first introduced over 50 years ago—has, like many racial stereotypes, refuses to go away. In the movie Fatherhood (based on a true story), American stand-up comedian, actor, and producer Kevin Hart portrays a recently widowed Black father left to rear his newborn daughter after the sudden and unexpected death of his wife. This presentation considers the impact of PTSD in African American fathers after maternal loss during childbirth or within 42 days after pregnancy. During this time. fathers need to learn to navigate fatherhood while coping with the death of their spouse/partner. The sudden and unexpected death of a woman at delivery or soon after delivery is a traumatic experience for her family. Sadly, Paternal bereavement following the unexpected loss of a spouse/partner can lead to mental complications including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a condition that can develop following a stressful event. A sudden bereavement is a stressful event.

The presentation will address losses and the potentiality of PTSD in African American males after the loss of their spouse/partner. After a loss their challenges become three-fold. They must cope with the loss, they must deal with their grief, and they must care for the infant or child, possibly alone.

Objectives

1. Disseminate information on responsible fatherhood

2. Identify the influence fathers can have on their children

3. Discuss strategies for coping with loss of a spouse/partner

4. Identify challenges of fatherhood

5. Identify self-care techniques in response to loss and fatherhood

Rose Presentation

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Dual Diagnosis and the Mental Health Parity Problem: Weaving High-Quality Medical, Psychiatric, and Developmental Support into Better Care for Patients and New Standards for Health Systems

Paradise Ballroom ABC

 

Speaker(s):

Constantino, John, MD

Description

Some of the most chronic and treatment-resistant syndromes of mental health impairment arise when developmental disability and psychiatric disability occur together, so-called “dual diagnosis”. Interventions that are commonly implemented in the developmental disabilities service sector (e.g., functional communication training and positive behavioral support planning) are capable of mitigating severe behavioral impairment, yet rarely invoked when dual diagnosis patients are seen in the psychiatric service sector. Conversely, state-of-the-art interventions for traumatic stress, pharmacotherapy, and psychotherapy have proven capable of improving behavioral impairments in IDD but are typically restricted to the psychiatric service sector, where there exist significant barriers to access for patients with IDD, including limitations imposed by diagnostic eligibility and practitioner experience. Bridging these gaps in knowledge and clinical capacity across the respective IDD and PS service sectors should be of very high priority in strategizing the care and support of IDD patients with serious co-occurring psychiatric conditions, and will be an important step in fulfilling federal mental health parity legislation.

Objectives

  • To describe common pathways to unnecessary complications in adaptation among individuals with developmental disability
  • To describe advances in treatment for joint behavioral and developmental disability
  • To clarify endpoints of mental health parity, i.e. the extent to which medically-necessary behavioral health services are being delivered on a par with medical services within health systems.

Constantino – Dual Diagnosis and MH Parity Constantino 2023v2.0

 

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Rose, Yvette, DNP

Dr. Rose been a faculty member in the nursing department since 2008, teaching in the areas of Mental Health, Transcultural Nursing, and Leadership. She earned her Doctor of Nursing Practice from Governors State University (2015), Master of Science in Nursing (2007) from Governors State University, and Bachelor of Science in Nursing (1998) from Olivet Nazarene University. She holds a Parish Nursing Certificate from Olivet Nazarene University (1999). Her professional nursing experience has been in geriatric nursing, acute and long-term care, mental health, and case management.

Dr. Rose have a strong commitment to mental health (Veterans and African American Father/Loss and Grief), education, community service, diversity, inclusion, and equity.

Presentation(s):

Barbershop Talk: Grief and Bereavement in Black Fathers After the Loss of a Spouse/Partner

 

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Luetjen, Chad

As a 14 year veteran of state service and a current member of the Missouri Department of Higher Education and Workforce Development (DHEWD) Organizational Learning Team I have held many positions with DHEWD including Case Manager, Customer and Technical Support Unit, and Office of Apprenticeship and work based learning. In that time I have had first-hand knowledge providing and assisting with providing services offered by our full service Job Centers. In my current roll I create and present training to DHEWD state staff and partner agencies.

Presentation(s):

Missouri Job Center Services