6:30 - 8:30 AM |
Registration |
7:00 - 8:00 AM |
Wake Up Sessions |
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Neuroscience Track Neuroscience Interest Network
Graduate Student/Emerging Professionals |
7:30 - 8:30 AM |
Breakfast (included with registration) |
8:30 - 10:00 AM |
Keynote Presentation
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Crisis Track Two People Looked Out...Perceiving the World with Reverse Paranoia Presented by Bob Wubbolding |
10:30 - 12:00 PM |
Breakout Session Number 1 |
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Neuroscience Track | Trauma Track Exposure to Childhood Maltreatment and Its Effects on Brain Development and Psychopathology Presented by Michael Hillerman This program provides a high level review of the Teicher and Sampson (2016) study on the enduring neurobiological effects of childhood maltreatment, as well as review of several other important related studies published recently including two studies on potential mediators between maltreatment and psychopathology.
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Substance Use/Addiction Track Helping Difficult Clients Evaluate Their Behavior Presented by Bob Wubbolding Practical and usable skills immediately applicable, constitutes the focus of this presentation. Participants will gain practical ideas, skills and techniques based on theory and research. The core of the presentation is simulated role-play demonstrations of clients presented by participants that will also include mindfulness and ways to deal with trauma. |
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Trauma Track | Crisis Track | Child/Adolescent Track Preparation and Intervention: Helping Adults to Support Children and Adolescents Struggling with Grief or Personal Trauma Presented by Joel Muro Using data from their pilot study, researchers will address the gaps in the lay person’s understanding of grief and trauma as it relates to children. Presenters will address preparing adults to supportively provide basic interventions and responses to process grief reactions and deescalate emotional reactivity.
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Integration Track The Food-Mood Connection: Can What We Eat Really Influence Our Mental Health Presented by Helena Boersma This talk will provide an overview of the impact food and the microbiome have on anxiety, depression, and general mental health conditions. It will review the current literature, and give clinicians tools on how to incorporate nutritional discussions into their clinical work while staying within their scope of practice. |
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Supervision Track | Trauma Track Our Role as Gatekeepers: Supervision Practices for Counselors Experiencing Impairment Presented by Amber Pope Many counselors entering the profession have experienced their own personal wounds. Session attendees will learn about the benefits and risks that a supervisee's personal history may pose to professional practice and personal wellbeing, and supervision strategies for supporting counselors recovering from wounds in order to promote growth and minimize harm.
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Ethics Track Diversifying Your Practice with the Lucrative Specialty of Forensic Mental Health Evaluation Presented by Aaron Norton Learn about the lucrative specialization of forensic mental health evaluation and how it may help you diversity your practice with impactful, challenging, creative, innovative, and meaningful work while increasing your practice's income.
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12:30 - 1:15 PM |
Lunch and Learn (included with registration) |
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More information coming soon. |
1:30 - 2:30 PM |
Keynote Presentation |
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Crisis Track Why Mental Health Counselors Are Essential to Suicide Prevention Presented by Jane Pearson |
3:00 - 4:00 PM |
Breakout Session Number 2 |
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Neuroscience Track Conceptualizations of Depression Presented by Thom Field During the past decade, new neuroscience conceptualizations for depression have emerged within the neuroscience community. This presentation will review emerging theories, and describe the results of a survey study into counselor awareness and applications of neuroscience models for explaining clinical depression to clients.
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Integration Track Forum of the Integrated Medicine Community Led by James Messina This forum will provide participants an insight to the current state of Clinical Mental Health Counselors' involvement in providing Behavioral Health Consulting in a variety of Integrated medicine, primary care, behavioral medicine and other related settings in our nation. The forum will enable participants to network to strengthen information sharing and collaboration of efforts.
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Trauma Track How We Survive: An Exploration of Stress and Psychological Hardiness Presented by Emily Petkus Stress and trauma can disrupt normal functioning. Psychological hardiness is a personality style that promotes resilience. Psychological hardiness requires maintaining attitudes and beliefs regarding the interaction between one’s self and the world. Strategies to increase hardiness with clients who have experienced trauma and stress will be discussed.
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Immigration Track | Child/Adolescent Track Traumatized Child and Adolescent Refugees: Efficacious Treatments and Future Implications Presented by Eric Camden Attendees will explore the emotional, interpersonal, and social problems faced by child and adolescent refugees, and will briefly review efficacious trauma treatments. Derived from the review of effective treatments in the literature, we will facilitate a discussion to identify intervention strategies for clinicians and program developers. |
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Supervision Track Sink, Swim, or Walk on Water: Continuum of Broaching Race in Cross-Racial Supervision Presented by LaTonya Summers In this didactic workshop, the presenter will address her research on the relationship between self-efficacy, broaching cultural differences, and cultural competence and provide opportunities for demonstration. Implications for enhancing cross-cultural counseling and supervision will be provided. |
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Crisis Track Suicide Prevention Presented by Jane Pearson |
4:15 - 5:45 PM |
Breakout Session Number 3 |
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Neuroscience Track | Integration Track A Paradigm Shift: The Role of Inflammation on Depression and Integrative Approaches to Treatment (Part 1 of 2) Presented by Richelle Vawter Chronic inflammation has been been referred to colloquially, as well as clinically, as "the root of all disease". In this presentation we will review the biological basis of inflammation, its long term repercussions, and integrative treatments to assuage inflammation and its impact on mental health, specifically depression.
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Substance Use/Addiction Track | Child/Adolescent Track | Trauma Track Beyond the Stuckness: Teens, Trauma, and Substance Use Disorders (Part 1 of 2) Presented by David Flack The connection between substance use and trauma is clear. Unfortunately, this connection is often neglected, leading to teens stuck in endless cycles of maladaptive behaviors and negative treatment outcomes. In this presentation, we'll examine ways trauma and substance use exacerbate each other, then explore practical skills for getting teens unstuck. |
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Trauma Track | Neuroscience Track Transforming Trauma with Memory Reconsolidation (Part 1 of 2) Presented by Courtney Armstrong Memory reconsolidation is a recent neuroscience discovery that has revealed a new way to heal trauma at its roots. In this workshop, you'll learn a simple five-step memory reconsolidation protocol you can use to reverse the negative impact of traumatic memories while instilling hope, empowerment, and resilience in your clients.
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Integration Track | Neuroscience Track Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) - Train the Trainer Program (Part 1 of 2) Presented by James Messina Learn how to conduct the 8 Week Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program (MBSR) in offices, agencies, hospitals or community. The MBSR program is an evidence based program to alleviate clients’ unhealthy stress in their lives as well as an effective tool used in an interdisciplinary setting for Non-Medication Management of Pain.
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Supervision Track | Ethics Track The Congruent Supervisor: A Discussion of Ethics Presented by Megan Boyd This interactive workshop will review the literature surrounding common ethical issues in clinical supervision. Furthermore, this workshop will challenge the attendees to complete an inventory regarding traits of congruence, genuineness, and frequency of consultation. Attendees will learn from one another regarding supervisor barriers while learning strategies for resolving ethical dilemmas.
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Integration Track Building Knowledge, Innovation, and Recognition - Using AMHCA Resources to Enhance Your Practice Presented by Joel Miller Building our knowledge, keeping up with best practices, and enhancing recognition for that expertise is often a challenge in our fast-paced world. This presentation focuses on three AMHCA resources: the Journal of Mental Health Counseling, the Standards for the Practice of Clinical Mental Health Counseling, and the Diplomate credential, that will help attendees stay up to date on emerging research and best-practices as well as gain recognition for their advanced practice expertise.
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6:00 - 7:00 PM |
Breakout Session Number 4 |
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Neuroscience Track | Integration Track A Paradigm Shift: The Role of Inflammation on Depression and Integrative Approaches to Treatment (Part 2 of 2) Presented by Richelle Vawter Chronic inflammation has been been referred to colloquially, as well as clinically, as "the root of all disease". In this presentation we will review the biological basis of inflammation, its long term repercussions, and integrative treatments to assuage inflammation and its impact on mental health, specifically depression. |
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Substance Use/Addiction Track | Child/Adolescent Track | Trauma Track Beyond the Stuckness: Teens, Trauma, and Substance Use Disorders (Part 2 of 2) Presented by David Flack The connection between substance use and trauma is clear. Unfortunately, this connection is often neglected, leading to teens stuck in endless cycles of maladaptive behaviors and negative treatment outcomes. In this presentation, we'll examine ways trauma and substance use exacerbate each other, then explore practical skills for getting teens unstuck. |
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Trauma Track | Neuroscience Track Transforming Trauma with Memory Reconsolidation (Part 2 of 2) Presented by Courtney Armstrong Memory reconsolidation is a recent neuroscience discovery that has revealed a new way to heal trauma at its roots. In this workshop, you'll learn a simple five-step memory reconsolidation protocol you can use to reverse the negative impact of traumatic memories while instilling hope, empowerment, and resilience in your clients. |
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Integration Track | Neuroscience Track Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) - Train the Trainer Program (Part 2 of 2) Presented by James Messina Learn how to conduct the 8 Week Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program (MBSR) in offices, agencies, hospitals or community. The MBSR program is an evidence based program to alleviate clients’ unhealthy stress in their lives as well as an effective tool used in an interdisciplinary setting for Non-Medication Management of Pain. |
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Supervision Track Supervisees in Crisis: Using Cultural Humility to Improve Support and Working Alliance Presented by Paige Zeiger Supervisors provide support while being a gatekeeper. Research demonstrates supervisees’ disclosures are critical to supervision; however, supervisees who experience psychosocial stressors often do not self-disclose. Self-disclosure in distance supervision present a greater challenge. Participants will learn to employ cultural humility strategies to support supervisees in crisis and maintain client welfare.
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Child/Adolescent Track Using Expressive Art Therapy with LGBTQ Youth: A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words Presented by Jean Georgiou The presenter will discuss the use of Expressive Art Therapy with LGBTQ youth and explore a case study including client’s drawings. Follow up questions for each exercise used for processing will be reviewed. Included will be a Q & A segment meant to assist those considering using the techniques.
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