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Thurs Apr 27 | Fri Apr 28 | Sat Apr 29
THURSDAY APRIL 27, 2006:
Conference Registration |
8:15-9:15am |
Opening Keynote |
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See Jane Hit, Why Girls are Growing More Violent and What We Can Do About It
This presentation will focus on the rising rates of physical aggression in girls and offer some explanations for it. This explanation revolves around the secondary effects of positive changes in the role of girls and women (e.g. increased participation in athletics and reduced cultural sexism) on the processes by which aggression is channeled and directed in childhood and adolescence.
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Presented by:
James Garbarino, Ph.D.
Internationally Recognized Expert in Child Abuse Issues, Youth Violence, Education and Families,
Maude C. Clarke Chair in
Humanistic Psychology, Loyola University, Chicago, IL,
Author, See Jane Hit, Why Girls Are More Violent and What We Can Do About It (February 2006),
And Words Can Hurt Forever, Lost Boys
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| Concurrent Workshops |
11:15am-12:45pm |
Adolescent Self-Harm: Understanding the Territory and Important Assessment Considerations
Adolescent self-harming behavior is one of the most intimidating and challenging difficulties mental health and addiction professionals will work with in their offices and treatment programs today. This workshop will discuss some of the leading aggravating factors that fuel self-harming behavior and the latest research findings on this treatment population. In addition, a comprehensive, multisystemic assessment framework is presented to help counselors determine at what systems levels interventions need to be targeted.
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Presented by:
Matthew Selekman, MSW, LCSW
Founder and Co-Director of Partners For Collaborative Solutions, Evanston, IL.
Author, Working with Self-Harming Adolescents: A Collaborative, Strengths-Based Therapy Approach and Pathways to Change: Brief Therapy with Difficult Adolescents (Second Edition).
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And Words Can Hurt Forever: Protecting Adolescents from Bullying, Harassment and Emotional Violence
This presentation will present a social systems perspective on the issue of bullying in adolescence. It will focus on changing cultural normals about the human rights of teenagers to provide a basis for intervention to increase emotional and physical safety in schools serving adolescents.
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Presented by:
James Garbarino, Ph.D.
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| Concurrent Workshops |
2:00-3:30pm
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A Plan for Teaching Adolescents How to Live Positively with Themselves and Others
This workshop presents a synergistic, modular six-step plan that helps adolescents rely on themselves, connect with others and know how to be in the world. Participants will understand how this plan works, how it is supported by research showing the positive effects of intra-family communication, and how to teach the six steps to adolescents.
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Presented by:
Audrey Ricker, Ph.D., CRC, LAC
Therapist, Southern Arizona Ctr for Sexual Assault, Tucson, AZ,
Co-Author, How Happy Families Happen (February, 2006)
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Pathways to Solutions with Self-Harming Adolescents: A Collaborative, Strengths-Based Therapy Approach
Adolescent self-harming behavior can be quite complex and difficult to treat. A collaborative, strengths-based therapy approach is presented that enhances adolescents self-soothing and mood management skills, offers effective guidelines for how to help parents prevent and constructively manage their adolescent’s self-harming behavior when it occurs, and systemic interventions for strengthening family relationships. |
Presented by:
Matthew Selekman, MSW, LCSW
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| Concurrent Workshops |
3:30-5:00pm |
What About the Younger Siblings: Teaching Kids About Addiction
When an adolescent enters treatment for alcoholism and/or drug addiction it can be very confusing for family members, especially children. Come learn effective ways to teach children about this disease.
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Presented by:
Jerry Moe, M.A.
National Director, Children’s Program, Betty Ford Center, Advisory Board Member NACoA,
Author, Lecturer and Trainer
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Using the Clinical Supervision Model at Home
This workshop shows participants the value of sustained empathic inquiry in the home. At the end of this workshop, learners will be able to help parents, teachers, group home personnel and others working with adolescents—understand the value of connecting with children individually on a consistent basis.
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Presented by:
Audrey Ricker, Ph.D., CRC, LAC
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Providing Safe Passage Through Adolescence in Residential Alcohol/Other Drug Treatment
Participants will discover strategies for providing treatment environments where counselors and residents work together guiding adolescents, as they develop life skills for achieving personal success.
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Presented by:
Patty Ochoa, M.A.
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Friday, april 28 2006:
Keynote
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9:00-10:30am
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Integrated Treatment Model for Assessment and Treatment of Adolescents and Adults with Co-Occurring Disorders
This presentation provides an overview of the problem of “dual diagnosis”, and then identifies principles of successful treatment intervention derived from available research on evidence based best practices.
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Presented by:
Kenneth Minkoff, M.D.
Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Nationally Recognized Expert on Integrated Treatment of Individuals With Co-occurring Disorders
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Concurrent
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11:00am-12:30pm
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Co-Occurring Psychiatric and Substance Disorders: Assessment and Individualized Treatment Matching
Using the principles of successful treatment intervention in the context of an integrated disease and recovery model for understanding the process of treatment matching for individuals with co-occurring disorders, a systematic process of clinical assessment—the Integrated Longitudinal Strength Based Assessment—is presented. With data from the assessment, the presentation then illustrates a template for treatment matching, in which particular types of treatment interventions (e.g., motivational interviewing, skills training, psychopharmacology, contingency management, harm reduction, abstinence orientation) are matched to categories of individuals with co-occurring disorders based on subtype of dual disorder and phase of recovery.
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Presented by:
Kenneth Minkoff, M.D.
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Experiential Learning as a Powerful Tool in Teen Recovery
This workshop introduces participants to a variety of strategies and techniques to assist teens in the discovery and recovery process. Come fill your “tool-box” with activities that really work.
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Presented
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Jerry Moe, M.A.
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Working with Adolescents Abusing Methamphetamine:
Key Issues and Skills
Many abusers of Methamphetamine do not see the need to stop using—the drug is seen as the solution rather than the problem. How do you work with people who are not fully ready for recovery? What information and training is most helpful to engage and retain these young drug abusers in meaningful treatment? The answers to these questions are the focus of this presentation.
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Presented
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Jeanne L. Obert
Co-founder and Executive Director, Matrix Institute on Addictions, UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Programs,
Co-author, Matrix Model Intensive Outpatient Treatment
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Concurrent Workshops:
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When My Child Gets Addiction: Parenting in Recovery
Parenting can often be a challenging and humbling process. This gets more complicated when a child suffers from addiction. Here are some simple yet effective strategies to heal and deepen relationships with our children.
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Presented by:
Jerry Moe, M.A.
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Changing the World: Developing Comprehensive Integrated Systems of Care for Adolescents/Adults/Families with Co-Occurring Psychiatric and Substance Disorders
This presentation reviews examples of systems difficulties faced by individuals with co-occurring psychiatric and substance disorders in public and private settings, and identifies research based principles of successful treatment intervention for these individuals in the context of a parallel disease and recovery integrated conceptual framework that uses a common language that makes sense from the perspective of both the addiction field and the mental health field.
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Presented
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Kenneth Minkoff, M.D.
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How to Get Your Loved One Sober: An Evidence Based Intervention
The CRAFT intervention is a scientifically based intervention designed to help concerned significant others (CSOs) to engage treatment-refusing substance abusers into treatment. This new intervention method (CRAFT) was developed with the belief that since family members can, and do make important contribution in other areas of addiction treatment (i.e. family and couples therapy), that the CSO can play a powerful role in helping to engage the substance user who is in denial to submit to treatment.
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Presented by:
Robert J. Meyers, Ph.D.
Associate Director, Life Link Training Institute, Santa Fe, NM, Co-author, Get Your Loved One Sober
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3:30-5:00pm
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Counseling the Resistant Adolescent Male
Adolescent males often have a number of core clinical issues, which lead to resistance to counseling. They include: father wounds; anger and rage; toxic masculinity; difficulty expressing feelings; limited role models; and male depression. This workshop will address the core issues and also identify 9 strategies for overcoming resistance when working with adolescent males as clients.
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Presented by:
Mark Sanders, LCSW, CADC
International Speaker, Trainer and Author, Faculty, Loyola University, Chicago, IL
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Evidence Based Adolescent Treatment
The adolescent community reinforcement approach (ACRA)has recently proven effective with marijuana-abusing adolescents. ACRA is based on the belief that one’s environment plays a major role in determining whether an individual will use alcohol or illicit drugs. Strategies that increase the likelihood that sober behavior will be supported are taught, and skills deficits are addressed in the process (e.g., problem-solving, drug-refusal, communication).
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Presented by:
Robert J. Meyers, Ph.D.
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Helping People Change: The Use of Motivational Interviewing with Parents and Children
Change is a difficult thing for us all. Helping people make healthy changes in their lives sooner, rather than later, is a very rewarding experience—especially when working with families who are battling chronic, relapsing conditions. This presentation outlines the process of “pushing the river” in a manner that is easily understood.
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Presented by:
Jeanne L. Obert
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SATURDAY APRIL 29, 2006:
Keynote
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9:00-10:30am
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Real World: What It’s Like to Be a Teenage Addict
Chris Beckman uses his own experience as a former teenage addict, as well as stories of other youth, to describe today’s drug subculture, the kinds of drugs teens are using, and warning signs of drugs or abuse in this population. Beckman then talks about risk factors that set the stage for adolescent addiction. The presentation ends on an upbeat note, with the ways young people can take care of themselves once they are in recovery and what their families can do to support them.
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Presented By:
Chris Beckman
Former Cast Member of MTV’s Real World, Chicago has toured throughout the country, speaking to high school and college audiences about his addiction and recovery, Author, Clean: A New Generation in Recovery Speaks Out
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Concurrent
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Strength Based Counseling with Difficult to Reach Adolescents
Counseling with adolescents usually focuses on diagnoses, inabilities, deficiencies, difficulties, deficits, and problems, problems, problems! leaving them feeling stigmatized, unable, and more difficult to reach. The strength-based approach helps adolescents make more progress and be less resistant to change by zeroing in on what they know, what they can do, and resources that exist within and around them to assist with the change process. This workshop will prepare participants to build rapport, hope, optimism, and motivation to change in their clients, using a strength-based approach.
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Presented by:
Mark Sanders, LCSW, CADC
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Creating Adolescent Rites of Passage: How to Plan and Coordinate Events That Bring Honor and Healing to Youth
This workshop will explore the value and rationale for adolescent rites of passage, providing examples and methodologies for creating transititonal ceremonies in a variety of clinical and non-clinical settings. |
Presented by:
William DeFoore, Ph.D.
Psychotherapist, President, The Institute For Personal & Professional Development,
Addison, TX, Author, Anger: Deal With It, Heal With It, Stop It From Killing You and Anger Among Angels
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Introduction to Adventure Therapy: What Is It, Where It Came From and Adapting It to the Group Room
This workshop covers the history and evolution of adventure therapy. Participants will also gain skills to create and implement adventure therapy activities in their programs and practices. This is an active workshop; come prepared to participate.
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Presented by:
Jerry Harmon, CADAC, LISAC
International Workshop Facilitator, Trainer and Addictions Counselor, Specializing in Experiential Therapies, Tucson AZ
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1:45-3:15pm |
Abandonment: The Number One Cause of Self Destructive Behavior Among Adolescents
Childhood abandonment is a leading cause of self-destructive behavior among adolescents. Participants will leave this workshop with 10 strategies to help reduce the impact of abandonment on adolescents and build life-long resilience.
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Presented by:
Mark Sanders, LCSW, CADC
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Adolescent Anger and Violence: Understanding the Causes and Generating Creative Solutions
This session will explore the various developmental processes and systems impacting adolescent anger and violence, and propose a variety of direct and systemic interventions. |
Presented by:
William DeFoore, Ph.D.
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Creating an Adventure Therapy Kit for Clinicians Working With Adolescents and Families
This session provides a wealth of information on finding, making, and using adventure therapy props—for under $50! Activities will also be presented; come prepared to participate.
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Presented by:
Jerry Harmon, CADAC, LISAC
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3:30-5:00pm |
The Golden Child, The Scapegoat and the Outcast: Understanding and Healing the Damage of Favoritism, Persecution and Exclusion in Families, Schools and Communities
This workshop will examine adolescent dysfunction in terms of family, cultural and peer inclusion and exclusion processes and explore alternatives for change.
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Presented by:
William DeFoore, Ph.D.
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Helping Adolescents Internalize Principals and Tools of the Twelve Steps Through Adventure Therapy Activities
This skills training session will provide participants with adventure activities that teach powerlessness and unmanageability, the need for sponsorship, benefits of working the Steps, and more. Participants will learn by doing; so come prepared to be active.
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Presented by:
Jerry Harmon, CADAC, LISAC
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