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Self-Care Leads to Excellent Client Care

Leeward 74-75

 

Speaker(s):

Schlotzhauer, Le’Anne, BA

Description

We have all heard the flight attendants’ instructions of putting our own oxygen mask on first before helping someone else. It makes sense, but we often don’t follow this very basic rule in our own lives. We go into a supporting role to help someone live their best life. We want our clients to feel valued, loved, supported, and empowered. However, it is hard to give what you don’t have. The best way to help your clients is to ensure you have the tools to value yourself.

Whether you like it or not, your clients look up to you and often strive to be just like you. If they hear you putting yourself down, running yourself down, or utilizing bad habits to keep yourself down they may begin to model some of this behavior. People believe what you do more than what you say. Building a client up with your words won’t have the same impact as building them up through role modeling what having valued, empowered life looks like. Be the change you want to see in your clients.

Objectives

1. Discuss the impact staff have on their clients.
2. Utilize this impact for the purpose of building clients up.
3. Review tools to change your thought patterns.
4. Discuss to how treating yourself with dignity and respect leads to treating others the same way
5. Describe how progress is better than perfection.

Schlotzhauer Presentation

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Brooks, Estelle, MSW

Estelle Brooks is a certified fitness instructor with a master’s degree in Social Work. Estelle has over 35 years of experience working with individuals from diverse backgrounds. Her professional training as a social worker has allowed her to correlate the importance of mental health status. She is an energetic 69-year-old that finds joy in assisting people individually or in large group settings to achieve optimal health and fitness and life-changing goals. She encourages and supports people to take care of themselves spiritually, mentally, physically, and creatively.

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YOU GOT TO DO SOMETHING “Balancing Your Life”

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

Zhanna Keeton, now a power forward Executive Director for Center for Life Solutions aims to provide leadership in the field of healthcare combining a results-driven approach with passion for the cause of life changing experiences for patients, staff and the community. She has held executive leadership positions over the last ten years, transforming companies’ brands and profitability avenues. Zhanna is a doctoral candidate, working toward a Ph.D. in Counseling and Care specializing in Trauma, MBA graduate from Webster University, with a bachelor’s degree in Legal Studies and a Master of Counseling from Missouri Baptist University. As a published author and licensed psychotherapist with over 100 hours of training on trauma she endeavors to utilize the in-depth understanding of the human experience to improve the delivery of behavioral healthcare services, driving both profits and effective services.
As a service to the community, she founded a nonprofit trauma counseling facility that incorporates canine-assisted therapy, now spearheading the cause as the Board Chair. She shares her vigor for life altering positive experiences through her writings as a published author, and as a speaker on topics in mental health. She gladly serves as a Board Director for two intuitive nonprofit organizations serving causes that Zhanna cherishes. Haven House of St Louis, an organization that provides a haven for families struggling with medical traumas. Zhanna’s approach to life and business is unparalleled as she continues her journey through leading the fight against opioid addiction epidemic connecting services, support, education and resources as the leader of the cause at Center for Life Solutions in St. Louis, MO.

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

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Schlotzhauer, Le’Anne, BS

Le’Anne Schlotzhauer has worked in the field of adults with IDD for over 30 years. In that time, she has worked directly with clients and has been training supervisors and staff in the field for over 14 years. She is a Certified Autism Specialist. She is a certified trainer in Mandt, CPR/First Aid, and Tools of Choice. Le’Anne has been focused on supervisors and their wellness for the past year.

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Self-Awareness

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Wilson, Amy, PsyD

Dr. Amy Wilson is a licensed psychologist who’s conducted psychological evaluations with children for over ten years in the St. Louis community. Dr. Wilson is certified in the Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics (NMT) and specializes in evaluating foster and adopted children who’ve experienced trauma. For evaluations, Dr. Wilson takes a collaborative approach in working with caregivers and providers to conceptualize how early trauma has impacted a child’s social, emotional and behavioral development. Furthermore, Dr. Wilson has interests in enhancing support for traumatized children in schools, working with caregivers to better understand their child, and program development.

Presentation(s):

A Trauma-Informed Approach to Psychological Evaluations

Using “Dosing” as a Model for Self-Care: Clinicians and Clients Alike

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Scaccia, Jamie, PsyD

Dr. Jamie Scaccia is a clinical psychologist from St. Louis, Missouri. Her career has been dedicated to working with families with a history of trauma. She is trained in the Neursosequential Model of Therapeutics framework, Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP), and EMDR, amongst other trauma focused approaches. Dr. Scaccia also enjoys training and supervision, community engagement, and advocacy.

Presentation(s):

A Trauma-Informed Approach to Psychological Evaluations

Using “Dosing” as a Model for Self-Care: Clinicians and Clients Alike

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Zwolak, Steve, MEd

Steve Zwolak is the CEO of LUME Institute and Executive Director of University City Children’s Center. He has over 50 years’ experience as a student of children, tirelessly advancing and advocating for early childhood. Steve’s years as a classroom teacher and leader in the field of early childhood enabled him to build the LUME Approach to education, which focuses on Emotionally Responsive Teaching – braiding early childhood and mental health principles. The Approach emphasizes that the emotional development and wellness of teachers, children and families are collectively critical to a child’s future life script In addition, there is preliminary evidence that his work has the potential in closing the racial and socioeconomic achievement gap. We know the foundation for diversity, inclusion and equity are embedded the emotional development of children in the first three years of life. Steve teaches teachers that there is major watershed from birth through 5 years of age, where children must begin to internalize and then socialize their understanding of diversity, inclusion and equity to make it an embedded way of life.

Steve believes that is children are physically safe, they will feel emotionally safe, and then they can take social risk as they feel socially safe and finally the will confident in their own competencies to take academic risk. “All learning happens in relationships”.

Steve has been recognized locally, regionally and nationally for his work with children, families and educators.

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Understanding My Normal vs Their Normal