Speaker(s):

Paul Grant, PhD

Presentation: Paul M. Grant, Ph.D. will discuss an approach he has helped to pioneer: recovery-oriented cognitive therapy (CT-R). CT-R is an empirically-supported treatment for people diagnosed with “serious mental illness” that operationalizes recovery and resiliency in a person-centered, strength-based way. The approach applies across the range of severity, and includes a way to understand the challenges (low energy, disorganization, grandiosity, hallucinations, aggression, self-injury, etc.) that can keep people from engaging and getting their desired life, along with strategies for action to promote that life to its fullest. Individuals can go from feeling defeated to flourishing, from chronic institutionalization to life in the community. There is a successful integration of adaptive beliefs and confidence that enables individuals to thrive in the life of their choosing. The presentation will focus on theory and science supporting the model, the basic protocol, team-based approaches, as well as successful implementation in a large mental health system – all producing significant culture change.

Objectives:

• Describe how an evidence-based approach (recovery-oriented cognitive therapy) operationalizes recovery and resiliency
• Identify methods of activating individuals into an adaptive mode
• Name the features of effective aspirations
• Identity elements of successful implementation of CT-R on a milieu or programmatic residence that impacts the greatest number of individuals

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Speaker(s):

Paul Grant, PhD

Presentation: This interactive session will focus on empowerment in the face of specific challenges that can limit individuals who are in recovery from living the life of their choosing to the fullest. Recovery-oriented cognitive therapy provides a framework for understanding these challenges (low energy, aggressive behavior, self-injury, persecutory beliefs, grandiose beliefs, forensic involvement, anosognosia) along with strategies for action that enable family, peers, and providers to become the empowering collaborators.

Objectives:

• Describe ways in which the recovery-oriented cognitive model provides a useful understanding of challenges in terms of beliefs
• Discuss the link between beliefs underlying challenges and empowerment strategies in the pursuit of the individual’s meaningful aspirations
• Identify a specific challenge, develop a CT-R understanding, and generate an action plan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Speaker(s):

Dena Sneed, OTR/L

Rev. Roxanne Pendleton, MDiv

Presentation: This training will engage participants to explore the impact of specific kinds of trauma upon the family as well as ways that trauma is experienced and re-enacted within the family. Participants will come away with specific, empowering strategies for improving family dynamics.

Objectives:

• Define and explore the impact of cultural, historical and intergenerational trauma
• Explain the varying experiences of trauma within the family system
• Identify re-enactment or the “drama triangle”, including reasons, roles and re-scripting strategies

Slides and Handouts:

Sneed and Pendleton_Understanding Family Trauma HANDOUT

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Speaker(s):

Shane Young, MSW

Presentation: In the news we hear weekly examples of ethical boundary violations that lead to the end of careers and imprisonment. Is it possible that these events could have been prevented? This training will help look at ways to prevent the development of these situations and how we can incorporate habits of professionalism and integrity that will allow professionals to know how to do their jobs in a way that they can make a positive impression without violating the rules created. We will discuss what it takes to be a professional. We will look at the vulnerabilities that influence boundary conflicts. We will look at common myths about boundaries that exist and the most common violations. We will look at how rural environments can create opportunities or boundary violations. We will process some sample scenarios to better explain and look at boundary violations. We will also educate the audience on healthy alternatives for managing your professional lives.

Objectives:

• Identify the role of a professional
• Discuss the vulnerabilities that influence boundary conflicts
• Describe myths about boundaries and the most common violations
• Explain how to manage rural (acquaintance) relationships professionally
• Review sample scenarios to better identify signs of boundary violations
• Introduce healthy alternatives for managing your professional life

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Speaker(s):

Rachel Winograd, PhD

Presentation: Funds from the Federal 21st Century Cures Act were distributed to all states by SAMHSA in Spring, 2017 and will continue through Spring, 2019, to address the opioid crisis in the form of State Targeted Response to the Opioid Crisis (STR) grants. This talk will review the landscape of opioid use and overdose deaths in Missouri and how the Opioid STR grant efforts have aimed to curb the trend of increasing death rates and change the system of care in our state. Though the goals of STR span initiatives in the realms of prevention, treatment, and recovery support, this talk will focus mostly on treatment. Specifically, the treatment of opioid use disorder through Missouri’s STR “Medication First” treatment model, which prioritizes timely access to stabilizing medications, reduced barriers to medication across diverse treatment settings, and the availability of medication maintenance treatment for as long as a person benefits from it. This talk will also provide an early summary of findings from the first year of STR treatment implementation and highlight current and upcoming opioid-related updates, including a review of the new implanted and injectable formulations of buprenorphine.

Objectives:

• Identify the most promising medical and harm reduction practices being used around the world to decrease opioid-related morbidity and mortality, including an introduction to new formulations of buprenorphine products (implants and injections) for maintenance treatment
• Identify the key role the “Medication First” treatment model plays in managing Opioid Use Disorder
• Describe the recent Missouri trends in opioid overdose and treatment utilization, including early findings from Missouri’s State Targeted Response grant efforts

Slides and Handouts:

STI_Winograd_2018_2