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Teaching New Staff New Tricks

Windgate 60-61

 

Speaker(s):

Honeycutt, Nathan, MS, LPC

Description

“You don’t know, what you don’t know!” This phrase fits so many therapists and case managers that start into the field of mental health and those that supervise them. This presentation is for new therapists, new case managers, and those that supervise them. We will look at the key things that new staff need to be taught and how to teach it to them. We will build strategies to help new staff learn to adjust to the “real world” of clinical work from their academic view. We will also help supervisors gain knowledge and skills to help new staff grow into the field and not leave it prematurely. We will also provide good strategies for those that are licensure supervisors for PLPCs and LMSWs.

Objectives

1. Review what new staff do that need to be addressed?
2. Dicuss what are the best ways to teach those skills to new staff?
3. Discuss how to help new staff grow into the field instead of leaving it too soon?

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Sandidge, Isaac, MA

Isaac Sandidge graduated from Eastern Ilinois University with an MA in Gerontology. He has over 7 years of experience as a clinician in community behavioral health centers. Sandidge organized, implemented and conducted New Employee Orientation for all staff within the community behavioral health organizations on topics such as Motivational Interviewing, Recovery Oriented Services, Personal Growth, Life Safety, Corporate Compliance, Trauma-Informed Care and Compassion Fatigue, Enhancing Consumer Engagement, ASAM, Golden Thread, IL Rule 132, DLA-20, PHQ9, and Mental Health First Aid. He is currently an instructor in Adult and Youth Mental Health First Aid with certification in Public Safety, Higher Education, and Older Adult modules of the program. Sandidge is also an instructor for CALM (Counseling on Reducing Access to Lethal Means, and Conversations on Reducing Access to Lethal Means).

Presentation(s):

Compassion Fatigue

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Jones, Rachel, MEd, LPC

Rachel Jones is the Director of Trauma Services at Missouri Department of Mental Health. In her current role, she serves as the DMH leader responsible for the development, implementation and management of DMH’s statewide trauma and wellness vision, strategy and programs. She provides trauma informed training, consultation and technical assistance with various projects to further implement trauma-informed knowledge, practices and treatment. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor and received Bachelor’s Degree in Sociology, Minor Degree in Black Studies, and a Master’s Degree in Educational, School and Counseling Psychology from University of Missouri-Columbia.

She has a combined 16 year’s experience providing individual and family therapy, working in community-based mental health, developing school partnerships, crisis response and management, public speaking and training, inpatient alcohol/drug rehabilitation and in-home therapy settings. For several years, she has provided secondary traumatic stress trainings to various helping professional agencies ranging from mental health, early childhood providers and child welfare staff to school, prison, juvenile justice, law enforcement and faith-based entities.

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DMH CARES About Employee Wellness

 

 

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Adams, Dan, MBA

Dan Adams has been in the treatment and prevention field for over 40 years, spending the last 35 with Southeast Missouri Behavioral Health. Dan was in the first Missouri cohort to receive Medication Assisted Recovery (MARS) certification. Currently, he is the Director of Program Services with SEMOBH and oversees programming in SEMO’s 17 sites in Missouri.

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Johnson, Clif, AA, CRAADC

Clif Johnson has acquired 36 years in the field of substance abuse and co-occurring disorders, with the last 29 years employed at Southeast Missouri Behavioral Health as Chief Stakeholders Relations Officer and Director of Clinical Compliance. In addition to his CRAADC, he holds Certifications as a Compulsive Gambling Counselor and Comprehensive SATOP Professional. He received his Associates Degree in Human Services and Certificate in Chemical Independence Studies at St. Louis Community College. He is also trained as a CARF Accreditation surveyor.

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Honeycutt, Nathan, MS, LPC

Nathan has worked in mental health since 2006. He earned his Master’s Degree in Counseling. He is a LPC trained in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Trauma Focused – Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Therapy for Youth with Problem Sexual Behavior, and Motivational Interviewing. He has worked in youth and adult mental health and substance abuse treatment programs. He has worked at Ozark Center since 2012. He is the Clinical Director for Ozark Center Turnaround Ranch in Joplin, MO.

Presentation(s): 

Teaching New Staff New Tricks

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Bertolino, Bob, PhD

Bob Bertolino, Ph.D., is Professor of Rehabilitation Counseling at Maryville University and Sr. Clinical Advisor at Youth In Need, Inc. in Missouri. He has taught over 600 workshops throughout the United States and 11 countries and authored or co-authored 15 books including Effective Counseling and Psychotherapy: An Evidence-Based Approach, The Therapist’s Notebook on Positive Psychology: Activities, Exercises, and Handouts, and the forthcoming, The Therapist’s Notebook for Supervision and Training: Activities and Exercises to Improve Effectiveness. Bob is both a licensed marital and family therapist and professional counselor in the state of Missouri, a National Certified Counselor, a Certified Rehabilitation Counselor, and a Clinical Fellow with the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy.

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Improving Outcomes in Behavioral Health: What Every Clinician, Supervisor, and Administrator Needs to Know