Speaker(s)

Amy Griffith, PhD

This presentation focuses on current best-practices in the field of sex offender risk assessment, and methods for identifying treatment targets. 

Objectives:

• Learning empirically-supported methods of sex offender risk assessment, and identification of treatment needs.

Speaker(s)

Sarah Earll

Mickie McDowell

Toni Jordan

Certified Missouri Peer Specialists will share their favorite skills taught during the Certified Missouri Peer Specialist Basic Training, how they teach new peer specialists, and how they see peer specialists using those skills in their work with peers starting their recovery.

Objectives:

• To provide information on specific skills Peer Specialists learn during their training.
• To give audience members a clear picture of what Peer Specialists can do for the recovering peer.
• To give audience members a clear picture of how the skills learned by Peer Specialists can be complemented by other professionals on a recovery team.

Speaker(s)

Scott Breedlove, MS

This session will provide an overview of group counseling to include basic considerations in providing group counseling by answering the questions of why, who, what, when and where!

Objectives:

• Participants will identify different group focus areas and the purpose of each focus area.
• Participants will learn strategies in dealing with ambivalent and other types of group clients.
• Participants will review how to write a group client contract.

Speaker(s)

Rachel Winograd, MA

This presentation will review risk factors for experiencing opioid overdose events and will highlight how multiple distinct types of clinical pictures lead to increased risk. Specifically, pathways reflecting “pure” substance misuse histories, mismanagement of acute or chronic pain treatments, respiratory illnesses, and comorbid mental and physical health conditions will be reviewed, with attention paid to the unique vulnerabilities of individuals with each presentation. Guidance on how to most effectively discuss and protect against opioid overdose within various health care settings will be provided.

Objectives:

• Review knowledge of behavioral, emotional, and physical risk factors for opioid overdose events
• Describe established approaches and emerging trends in the services requires to support patients and families of patients with behavioral health and/or substance use management needs, specifically related to opioid use
• Understand the unique clinical concerns of patients struggling with co-occurring chronic pain and opioid use disorder
• Review a variety of prevention and intervention approaches to reduce patient risk of experiencing opioid overdose events

Speaker(s)

Mark Sanders, LCSW

This skill-building workshop will address ethics in the clinical relationship. A partial list of topics includes: Eight Principles that Can Help with Ethical Decision Making in the Clinical Relationship; Achieving Clinical Excellence; The Impact of the Counselor’s Unfinished Business on Ethical Decisions; The Use of Countertransference as a Tool to Achieve Excellence in the Clinical Relationship and to Avoid Ethical Dilemmas; Establishing Healthy Boundaries; Addressing Multiple Relationships with Clients; Strategies for Avoiding Burnout and Compassion Fatigue to Avoid Ethical Violations in the Clinical Relationship; Six Strategies for Leading an Ethical Life and the use of the NASW code of ethics to address ethical dilemmas presented via case vignettes in an interactive manner. This promises to be a fun learning experience.

Objectives:

• Be aware of eight principles that can help with ethical decision making.
• Be aware of how to use countertransference as a tool to achieve clinical excellence and avoid ethical dilemmas.
• Be aware of how to address issues around dual/multiple relationships with clients.
• Be aware of the counselor’s unfinished business can impact ethical decisions.
• Be aware of four strategies for achieving healthy boundaries with clients.
• Be aware of the differences between burnout and compassion fatigue and how each can impact ethical behavior.
• Understand how to utilize the NASW code of ethics to solve ethical dilemmas.

Speaker(s)

Jennie Bedsworth, LCSW

Peggy Reed-Lohmeyer, LCSW

Clinicians from Fulton State Hospital will discuss using creative expressions (such as art, movement, and writing) with individuals, groups and in campus-wide projects to facilitate recovery, healing and understanding of client experiences. Discussion will cover using supplemental artistic activities in groups and individual therapy, both as learning and expressive tools; methods to encourage clients to develop upon personal interests in the arts; and how creative expressions can help clients manage emotional dysregulation, work through trauma histories, distract from residual psychotic symptoms, and build personal competencies despite mental and physical disabilities. Workshop attendees will view examples of clients’ individual art, group projects, and campus-wide expressions such as FSH’s Pillows of Hope. And best of all, attendees will participate in live expressive activities in the workshop!

Objectives:

• Describe a variety of expressive techniques to use in therapeutic environments.
• Describe the therapeutic benefits of utilizing expressive activities to supplement existing therapies.
• Provide the opportunity to participate in expressive activity.

Creative Healing Bedsworth and Reed Lohmeyer – Slides in PDF format

Speaker(s)

Mark Sanders, LCSW

This skill-building workshop will address ethics in the clinical relationship. A partial list of topics includes: Eight Principles that Can Help with Ethical Decision Making in the Clinical Relationship; Achieving Clinical Excellence; The Impact of the Counselor’s Unfinished Business on Ethical Decisions; The Use of Countertransference as a Tool to Achieve Excellence in the Clinical Relationship and to Avoid Ethical Dilemmas; Establishing Healthy Boundaries; Addressing Multiple Relationships with Clients; Strategies for Avoiding Burnout and Compassion Fatigue to Avoid Ethical Violations in the Clinical Relationship; Six Strategies for Leading an Ethical Life and the use of the NASW code of ethics to address ethical dilemmas presented via case vignettes in an interactive manner. This promises to be a fun learning experience.

Objectives:

• Be aware of eight principles that can help with ethical decision making.
• Be aware of how to use countertransference as a tool to achieve clinical excellence and avoid ethical dilemmas.
• Be aware of how to address issues around dual/multiple relationships with clients.
• Be aware of the counselor’s unfinished business can impact ethical decisions.
• Be aware of four strategies for achieving healthy boundaries with clients.
• Be aware of the differences between burnout and compassion fatigue and how each can impact ethical behavior.
• Understand how to utilize the NASW code of ethics to solve ethical dilemmas.

Sanders Handout Ethics in Clinical Relationship – Slides in PDF format

Speaker(s)

Andrew Shaughnessy, MA

As the LGBT community continues to march toward social justice, local LGBT organizations have been challenged with the affects that these issues have had on the health of our community. Discrimination, bullying, the legal denial of basic rights, and the invisibility we have often felt from our health and social service providers has led our community down a path of health inequality. This workshop will provide attendees with a roadmap for bridging the gap found in LGBT health disparities in Missouri.

Objectives:

• Insights into the health of LGBT Missourians –including their mental health
• Diversity and inclusion – cultural competency and population health
• Supporting LGBT Military personnel
• Inclusion of LGBT welcoming policies and practices for health and social service providers.

Speaker(s)

Ryan Lindsay, MSW, LCSW

Emotion Regulation is currently trending in many circles as it relates to mental health treatment.  However, what is really meant by this term?  What does it really mean?  How does it relate to treatment?  This presentation will answer these questions regarding the role of emotion regulation in mental health treatment and its influence on treatment of emotional disorders.  Additionally, audience members will walk away with an understanding of the definition of “emotion regulation”, how emotion regulation is influenced through interventions, and ideas of how to change one’s practice.