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Steffen, Ann, PhD, ABPP

Ann Steffen, Ph.D., ABPP is currently a professor of psychology and gerontology at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, where she has spent her career in teaching, research, supervision and direct clinical services. Dr. Steffen is a faculty clinician at the UM-St. Louis Community Psychological Service, and is dual board certified in Behavioral & Cognitive Psychology and in Geropsychology by the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP).

Presentation(s): 

Culturally-Attuned Behavioral Activation to Support Psychological Resilience

CBT to Support Healthy Grief in the Face of Loss

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Bennett, Justin, MSW, LCSW

Justin Bennett is a Missouri native and Licensed Clinical Social Worker who discovered his calling for public service over 15 years ago. While hospice ignited his passion for the field, he would go on to spend much of his career providing much needed state and federally funded mental health services. He is passionate about mental health care being free of barriers and stigma. While his practice has always involved direct care, he’s worked to change policies and procedures at departmental and state levels to improve access to care. He has taken an active role in advancing the social work profession through advocacy and in developing rules and regulations to improve practice. He also believes in educating and mentoring the next generation of social workers, and as such has taught at a local School of Social Work for over a decade. He has led a variety of professional speaking engagements to help other professionals grow their knowledge and to offer space for them to share their perspective. His commitment to the field of social work and those served has led him to his current role coordinating admissions for a federal agency’s substance abuse program, to serve as a member of a committee governing the practice of social work across the state, and to educate social work students on the ethics of diagnosing and treating mental health. Most recently, he became the owner of Mindful Perspective LLC, where he will help people and organizations find balance through developing perspective in the many facets of their life and practice.

Presentation(s):

The Ethics of Competence

LGBTQIA+: History, Diversity, Inclusion

 

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Community Support and Peer Support: Working Together for Success

Speaker(s):

Alexa Thompson, MS, LPC

Presentation: This presentation will explore the ways Peer Support and Community Support Services are alike and different. The presentation will focus on the roles that Community Support and Peer Support Specialists play and how each role is vital to providing effective mental health and substance use disorder services.

Objectives:

  • Describe how Peer Support and Community Support Services are alike and different.
  • Define the role of the Community Support Specialist and how this role is vital to providing effective mental health and substance use disorder services.
  • Define the role of the Peer Support Specialist and how this role is vital to providing effective mental health and substance use disorder services.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Missouri’s State Targeted Opiod Crisis Grant: What We’re Doing and Why

Speaker(s):

Rachel Winograd, PhD

Presentation: Funds from the Federal 21st Century Cures Act were distributed to states by SAMHSA in Spring, 2017, to address the opioid crisis in the form of State Targeted Response to the Opioid Crisis (Opioid STR) grants. Missouri’s is led by Dr. Rick Gowdy, Director of the Division of Behavioral Health, Missouri Department of Mental Health, and directed by Dr. Rachel Winograd of the Missouri Institute of Mental Health-University of Missouri, St. Louis. Collaborative partners include substance use and healthcare agencies, organizations, and academic affiliates throughout the state. This talk will describe the landscape of opioid use and overdose deaths in Missouri and how the Opioid STR project plans to curb the trend and change the system of care in our state. The primary goals of the Missouri Opioid STR project include: 1) Increase provider and consumer-focused opioid use and overdose prevention initiatives and programs (through school-based prevention, telehealth consultation on safe opioid prescribing in primary care, and expanded overdose education and naloxone distribution efforts); 2) Increase access to evidence-based Medication Assisted Treatment for uninsured individuals with Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) (through rigorous provider training, direct service delivery, healthcare integration, and improved transitions of care in hospital and outpatient settings); 3) Increase the number of individuals with an OUD who receive recovery support services (through four new Recovery Community Centers, supportive recovery housing, and peer specialist services); and 4) Increase the likelihood of sustainability through policy and practice change as well as demonstrated effectiveness of grant-supported protocols.

Objectives:

  • Describe the regions and populations in Missouri most heavily impacted by opioid use and overdose death
  • Describe the role of agonist and partial agonist medications (e.g., Suboxone) in an evidence-based approach to the treatment of opioid use disorder
  • Review the primary objectives of the Missouri State Targeted Response to the Opioid Crisis Grant in the areas of prevention, treatment, and recovery support

Slides and Handouts:

Winograd STI Missouri Opioid STR

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Buprenorphine for Heroin Dependence: An Update

Speaker(s):

Luis Giuffra, MD, PhD

Presentation:  Dr. Giuffra will describe the result of scientific data on how to use buprenorphine successfully in the treatment of heroin dependence.

Objectives:

  • Review the role of medications in the treatment of heroin dependence.
  • Describe the best methods of using buprenorphine.
  • Discuss the role of psychosocial interventions in the context of buprenorphine use.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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My Career in Translational Research: From 1972-Present

Speaker(s):

Mark Gold, MD

Presentation:  This presentation will review the early work on drugs, memory, and state dependency of memory and how these relate to slips, relapse, cravings and depression. The link between locus coeruleus to opiate withdrawal and nucleus accumbens to cocaine withdrawal will be described. The dopamine hypothesis and proof of cocaine being addictive led to a change in the DSM diagnosis for addiction and made it possible for gambling and other processes to be addictive. The learner will follow the theory to the development of new treatments for opiate, cocaine, and other addictive processes. The learner will understand how smoking is injection without a needle and how smoking cigarettes or marijuana is like and unlike nicotine or THC.

Objectives:

  • Review the early work on drugs, memory and state dependency of memory and how these relate to slips, relapse, cravings and depression.
  • Discuss the link between locus coeruleus to opiate withdrawal and nucleus accumbens to cocaine withdrawal.
  • Outline the theory to the development of new treatments for opiate, cocaine and other addictive processes.
  • Describe how smoking is injection without a needle and how smoking cigarettes or marijuana is like and unlike nicotine or THC.

Slides:

Gold_Missouri handout

Gold-RYCU April 2017

Gold-RYCU May 2017

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Building Organizational Contexts for Implementing Evidence-Based Treatments

Speaker(s):

Ryan Lindsay, MSW, LCSW

Presentation:  EBT’s and EBP’s are primarily designed with one goal in mind: improved health outcomes in people. From academics to organizational CEO’s and program directors to new clinicians, you continuously hear this chant of EBP’s. Evidence-based treatments and practices give us predictability in our ability to generate changes in behavioral and health outcomes. Some were introduced to this concept while in our training programs and some of us are just now learning about new ways of moving the needle on behavioral health and health change. This workshop draws from the facilitator’s extensive history of working with organizations to implement new evidence-based treatment programs. These “lessons learned” from a decade of implementation experience will provide practical advice and a model to consider when organizations plan to adopt and implement a new evidence-based treatment. A model is only as effective as it is implemented and this workshop will help bridge the gap between failed implementation to successful implementation.

Objectives:

  • Discuss an overview of the implementation process for evidence-based treatments and practices in organizations.
  • Identify potential pitfalls in the process of implementing evidence-based treatments and practices in organizations.
  • Utilize a model for thinking about, beginning, selecting, implementing and sustaining evidence-based mental health treatments within organizations.

Slides and Handouts:

Lindsay_Creating Organizational Contexts for Implementing Evidence-based Treatments

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Integrating the Six Principles of Trauma Informed Care with the Six Principles of Strengths-Based, Person-Centered Model of Interpersonal Helping

Speaker(s):

Walter Kisthardt, PhD, MSW

Presentation:  Behavioral Health professionals have become increasingly aware of the importance of integrating the 10 principles of Trauma Informed Care into all aspects of interventions that are designed to promote social, psychological, physical and spiritual well-being. Research has also demonstrated how Strengths-Based, Person-Centered practice may generate increased proactive goal attainment on the part of a diverse group of service participants. In this workshop, Dr. Kisthardt demonstrates how the principles of Trauma Informed Care are inextricably linked to, and supported by, the principles of the Strengths Perspective in Social Work Practice. Participants then will explore how to consciously incorporate strategies into their work that increase the level of participant engagement in the interpersonal helping process; how to utilize the Person-Centered Strengths Assessment to assure attention to addressing how trauma may impact current and future goal attainment; and how the use of collaborative planning and documentation on the Personal Wellness/Recovery Plan promotes movement at the participants’ own pace and attends to positive, hopeful accomplishments that fuel recovery. Those who have attended Dr. Kisthardt’s workshops over the years have reported feeling affirmed, challenged, informed, aware of creative ideas to incorporate in challenging situations, while at the same time have fun in the process.

Objectives:

  • Introduce skills identified by the research that serve to promote engagement and the development of a trusting collaborative helping partnership
  • Explain how to integrate the Person-Centered Strengths Assessment as developed primarily by the service participant to reflect expression of trauma-informed principles
  • Describe how the Personal Wellness/Recovery Plan may be utilized to promote social/behavioral goals and outcome oriented practice.

Slides:

Kisthardt Strengths and Trauma

 

 

 

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How to Use Humor to Reframe What’s Depressing Us

Speaker(s):

John Shuchart

Presentation: Our presentation will focus on learning how to use a humorous approach in reframing traumatic events to eliminate the negative emotions attached to them. We present facts about mental illness and how to identify signs of loved ones, co-workers who are suffering in silence.  We will share our personal stories of how we have battled and overcome mental illness in our own personal and professional lives.  Our presentation is engaging, funny and a VERY unique approach to dealing with a subject as challenging as mental illness.  Furthermore, we have the audience break up into subgroup to work through and experience a taste of the material we have developed for our FULL workshop.  Participants will be able to take back and to incorporate these exercises in their own daily lives.

Objectives:

  • Explain how to use humor in reframing personal traumas.
  • Suggest how to end the stigma associated with mental illness.
  • Review how to address compassion fatigue. 

Slides:

Shuchart_Major Workdhop2.0

 

 

 

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Is Anybody Really Listening!?!

Speaker(s):

Jeremy Lotz, MA, LPC

Presentation: Across professions, workers spend more time listening than reading, writing & speaking combined. BUT, the average untrained worker forgets more than 50% of what’s heard within 24 hours.  Come discover why 60%+ of Fortune 500 companies offer formal listening training to employees. In this high energy & interactive seminar you’ll learn 6 Strategies of Effective Listening, 5 Barriers to Effective Listening and you’ll be able to take your work with domestic and sexual survivors to the next level!

Objectives:

  • Discuss field research verifying need for active listening especially in today’s technology-driven culture.
  • Present, explore and review active listening terminology.
  • Explore the eight guidelines for Effective Listening in small groups.
  • Present the 6 Strategies for Effective Listening.
  • Discuss and explore how these can be applied in the participants’ workplaces.
  • Present the 5 Barriers to Active Listening.
  • Complete a self-assessment about how well (on a scale of 1-10) you currently demonstrate the Guidelines of Effective Listening. If desired, facilitator will mail a follow-up self-assessment to a participant-provided work address in 90 days.

Slides:

Lotz_Listening_STI2017