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Thurs Apr 19 | Fri Apr 20 | Sat Apr 21
THURSDAY APRIL 19, 2007:
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8:15-9:15am |
Opening Keynote |
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On the ‘Broken’ Road of Recovery with the Next Generation
Wherever he goes, award winning author, William C. Moyers meets people who struggle against the powerful grip of addiction and don’t know who to talk to or where to turn. Ironically, recovery is a reality that too few of them know about, mainly because of the stigma perpetuated by shame and silence and indifference by those of us who know the solution in our personal or professional lives. Moyers’ call to action to unmask this stigma is a powerful reminder that changing the terms of the debate for the next generation starts with each and every one of us.
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 Presented by:
William C. Moyers
Vice President of External Affairs,
Hazelden Foundation,
Author, Broken
For the past decade, William has committed himself to helping people, families and communities understand the power of addiction and the promise and possibility of recovery. Moyers uses his own personal experience to “carry the message” to policy makers, civic groups, churches and schools across America. He has appeared on Larry King Live, the Oprah Winfrey Show, the Today program, and this work has been featured in scores of newspapers and other publications.
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11:15am-12:45pm |
What We know about Anger in Adolescents and What it means for Anger Management Programs
Therapist and counselors have established programs to treat dysfunctional anger in adolescents without first reviewing what we know about anger in youth. This presentation will review what we know and draw implications for how anger treatment programs should be designed to maximize their effectiveness. New research will be presented that highlights how anger in adolescents differs from the experience of the emotion in adults.
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 Presented by:
Ray DiGiuseppe, Ph.D., ABPP
Professor and Chairman, Psychology Dept.,
St. John’s University, NYC, Director of Professional Education, The Albert Ellis Institute; Co-Author, Understanding Anger Disorders
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2:00-3:30pm
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Using Anger Assessment in Children and Adolescents to Develop Treatment Plans
Good clinical assessment is necessary to develop effective treatment plans. This presentation will review the existing objective tests and structured and semi-structured interviews to assess anger and aggression in adolescents. Suggestions will be made for strategies that will yield the most valid information to develop treatment plans.
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Presented by:
Ray DiGiuseppe, Ph.D., ABPP
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Strengths-Based Engagement: A Comprehensive Approach to Working with Adolescents and Families
Participants will learn about the three major research and practice agendas that most influence treatment with adolescents and families. Participants will be offered a unique framework that incorporates each of these agendas, forming a comprehensive approach known as Strengths-Based Engagement (SBE).
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Presented by:
Bob Bertolino, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Rehabilitation Counseling, Maryville University, St. Louis, MO, Senior Clinical Advisor, Youth In Need, Inc., Founder, Therapeutic Collaborations Consultation, Author, Change-Oriented Therapy with Adolescents and Young Adults
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4:00-5:30pm |
A Cognitive/Behavioral/Systems Approach to Treating Angry and Aggressive Adolescents
This presentation will briefly review the empirical scientific research concerning which treatments work best for treating angry and aggressive adolescents. Most of the successful treatments target one aspect of an adolescent’s functioning. Multisystems treatment simultaneously targets the adolescent’s functioning with family with peers and at school. A multi component model of treatment will be presented.
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Presented by:
Ray DiGiuseppe, Ph.D., ABPP
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Frozen In Time: Change-Oriented Therapy for Adolescents Experiencing the Aftereffects of Sexual Abuse and Trauma
Participants will learn the 3-D’s of sexual abuse and trauma, how to create and/or rehabilitate a vision for the future, and five ways of facilitating change. The ideas offered are practical and can be utilized in a variety of settings.
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Presented by:
Bob Bertolino, Ph.D.
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Friday april 20, 2007:
Keynote
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9:00-10:30am
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Prevention of Substance Abuse in Adolescents: Lessons for the Brain Science
Brain imaging and other technologies have accelerated the process of defining the neuroscientific basis of alcohol and drug addiction and provide insights into age-dependent development that defines when adolescents are best able to process cognitive and emotional learning. These neuroscientific advances also provide clarity as to why alcohol and substance abuse during early adolescence significantly increases the risk for carryover into adulthood. Further, clinicians that specialize in treatment and prevention of adolescent substance abuse can use insights provided by the brain sciences in defining content of treatment and the timing of delivery of specific forms of treatment.
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 Presented by:
Jeffery Wilkins, M.D.
Vice Chair, Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, Director, Addiction Medicine, Thalians Mental Health Ctr., Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry, UCLA School of Medicine
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11:00am-12:30pm
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New Medications in the Treatment of Alcoholism, Cigarette Smoking and Opioid Abuse
This workshop will present a description of new medications that have recently become available for the treatment of alcohol, nicotine and opioid dependence including injectable naltrexone (e.g. Vivitrol), and partial agonists of the nicotine and mu opioid receptor including varenicline (e.g. Citrix) and buprenorphine (e.g. Suboxone/Subutex). The workshop will also describe the role for clinician specialists in adolescent substance abuse since these medication treatments require parallel psychosocial treatment to be fully effective.
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Presented by:
Jeffery Wilkins, M.D.
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The Therapeutic Benefits of Humor: A Workshop for Professionals Who Work with Difficult to Reach Adolescents
This session promises to be a fun learning experience, using humor to build a rapport with difficult-to-reach adolescents. This workshop will also utilize humor to address the stress, burnout, apathy and compassion fatigue experienced by each helping professional.
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Presented
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Mark Sanders, LCSW, CADC
International Speaker, Trainer and Author, Faculty, Loyola University, Chicago, IL
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Engaging the Challenging Adolescent: The Micro-Basics of Change
Too often practitioners employ therapeutic strategies that do not account for the uniqueness of adolescents. This workshop offers a departure from traditional one-size-fits-all, model-based approaches. The micro-basics of change represent practical yet essential processes and practices of maximizing effectiveness and negotiating therapeutic impasses with the most challenging adolescents.
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Presented
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Bob Bertolino, Ph.D
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Good Grief: Helping Adolescents Cope with Loss
Substance abuse, self-harming behavior, eating disorders, depression, anger, and destructive peer group affiliation can be signs of unresolved grief in adolescents. This workshop focuses on how to effectively help adolescents cope with loss.
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Presented by:
Mark Sanders, LCSW, CADC
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Teens & Drugs in the 21st Century: Treatment Approaches that Work
The focus of this presentation is on trends in teen substance abuse as well as treatment options. Throughout this presentation will be treatment implications and ways of thinking about adolescents in order to optimize their success.
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Presented
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Patrick Barrasso, MSW, LCSW
Psychotherapist and Trainer, Tucson, AZ, Owner/Founder, In Balance Ranch Academy, A Therapeutic Boarding School for Adolescent Males(Proud member of NATSAP)
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3:45-5:15pm
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The Counselor’s Tool Box: Helping Adolescents Cope with Symptoms Caused by Exposure to Traumatic Events
Violence, abandonment, loss and other traumatic experiences can produce traumatic stress symptoms in teens. Strategies for dealing with flashbacks, nightmares, startle response, intermittent explosiveness, and other symptoms will be discussed.
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Presented by:
Mark Sanders, LCSW, CADC
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Treating Conduct Disorder: Engaging This Often Difficult Population
Youth with conduct disorder will often show up in multiple settings, i.e., courts, intensive outpatient programs, residential treatment, and/or substance abuse programs. Therefore, all youth workers will need to understand how to effect change with this population
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Presented by:
Patrick Barrasso, MSW, LCSW
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Family Dynamics and Eating Disorders: A Family Approach to Treatment
The adolescent struggling with eating disorders has the best opportunity to increase healthier coping strategies by structuring specific interventions that target the development of a cohesive support system. Learn how to motivate patients to develop an openly communicative relationship with people who desire to assist in their recovery process.
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Presented by:
James “Buck” Runyan, M.S., LMFT, LPC
COO, Center for Discovery, Whittier, CA, Founder, Eating Disorder Recovery Services
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Afternoon Refreshment Break Sponsored by
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SATURDAY APRIL 21, 2007:
Keynote
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9:00-10:30am
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The Success Principles for Teens
Jack Canfield has devoted over 30 years to the study, application and teaching of the universal principles of success. In this fast-paced, entertaining and powerful keynote, he will share the principles and techniques that keep working wonders for him and his students with adolescents in all kinds of situations—schools, treatment programs, drug prevention programs, correctional institutions and youth leadership programs.
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 Presented By:
Jack Canfield, M.Ed.
Former High School Teacher, Psychotherapist; Leading Authority on Self-Esteem and Peak Performance, Co-Author, 100 Ways to Enhance Self-Concept in the Classroom and the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, Author, The Success Principles™
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Concurrent
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Self-Esteem Building Strategies for Adolescents
In this dynamic, fast paced, experiential workshop you will learn how to use five powerful techniques to build high self-esteem in adolescents and adults in individual, group and classroom settings. They are taken from his best-selling books and audio programs 100 Ways to Enhance Self-Concept in the Classroom, Self-Esteem in the Classroom: A Curriculum Guide, 101 Ways to Build Student Self-Esteem and Responsibility, and Maximum Confidence (formerly How to Build High Self-Esteem). Participants will experience the activities as they are being taught. These techniques include partner processes, interactive group processes, and guided visualizations, and journal writing.
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Presented by:
Jack Canfield, M.Ed.
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Using a Positive Peer Culture Approach in the Treatment of Substance Abusing Youth
This presentation will focus on the psychosocial needs of adolescents that are met in the drug subculture and how using a positive peer culture, along with the 12 steps of AA, can redirect their lives into a healthy subculture with purpose and future. |
Presented by:
Patrick Barrasso, MSW, LCSW
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1:45-3:15pm |
Research to Practice: Integrating Assessment and Treatment of Adolescent SUD and Psychiatric Disorders such as ADHD and Depression, Part 1
In this workshop attendees will learn the current research on assessment and effective treatments for adolescent SUD.
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Presented by:
Paula Riggs, MD
Associate Professor Psychiatry, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Dept. of Psychiatry Division of Substance Abuse
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What's Motivation Got to Do with it? Use of Brief Intervention with Drug Abusing Adolescent
This workshop will focus on the underlying principles and practical techniques of a 3-session brief intervention model for youth suspected of problems associated with drug abuse. The 3-session intervention, which consists of 2 sessions with the adolescent and 1 session with the parents, will be described. Skills pertaining to motivated enhancement techniques will be emphasized. |
Presented by:
Ken Winters, PhD
Director, Center for Adolescent Substance Abuse Research, Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry, University of Minnesota, Senior Scientist, Treatment Research Institute, Philadelphia, PA, Author, Teen Intervene-Using Brief Intervention with Substance Abusing Adolescents, and Brief Interventions-a part of Hazelden's Clincial Innovators Series
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3:30-5:00pm |
Research to Practice: Integrating Assessment and Treatment of Adolescent SUD and Psychiatric Disorders such as ADHD and Depression, Part 2
This workshop will focus on practical approaches to screening and assessment, integrating treatment; and coordinating continuing care for adolescent SUD and psychiatric comorbidity.
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Presented by:
Paula Riggs, MD
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Habits of Highly Effective Assessors of Adolescent Drug Abuse
This presentation will summarize the key skills and strategies that will maximize the clinical screening and assessment process when faced with a teenager who may be abusing drugs. The talk will provide insights about selecting the right assessment instrument and how to conduct a good clinical interview.
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Presented by:
Ken Winters, PhD
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