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Wed., March, 25 | Thurs., March, 26 | Fri., March, 27 | Sat., March, 28
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Pre-Conference Workshop Registration |
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LEGAL and ETHICAL Considerations When Using the DSM-IV-TR: Best Practices—
Updated for 2009
Pamela H. Harmell, Ph.D.
Therapists struggle with the DSM-IV-TR system and ethical diagnosing of clients. This
presentation addresses the Five Axial System with a full review of major diagnoses,
informed consent, proper billing, and multicultural and gender bias challenges.
Relevant Ethical Principles will be used to highlight ethical and legal issues—Most
Current Available Research and Literature.
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| 8:30AM - 10:30AM |
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Pre-Conference Ethics Workshop |
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LEGAL and ETHICAL Considerations When Using the DSM-IV-TR: Best Practices—
Updated for 2009
Pamela H. Harmell, Ph.D.
Introduction to Law and Ethics and DSM System; Substance
Related Disorders; Schizophrenia and other Psychotic Disorders. |
| 10:45AM - 11:45AM |
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Pre-Conference Ethics Workshop |
LEGAL and ETHICAL Considerations When Using the DSM-IV-TR: Best Practices—
Updated for 2009
Pamela H. Harmell, Ph.D.
Childhood Disorders; Accuracy vs. Misrepresentation in
Diagnosis; Sexual Disorders; Mood Disorders; Tarasoff Update.
| 11:45AM-12:45PM |
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Pre-Conference Ethics Workshop |
LEGAL and ETHICAL Considerations When Using the DSM-IV-TR: Best Practices—
Updated for 2009
Pamela H. Harmell, Ph.D.
Anxiety Disorders, Eating Disorders, Multicultural Challenges.
| 2:00PM - 4:00PM |
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Pre-Conference Ethics Workshop |
LEGAL and ETHICAL Considerations When Using the DSM-IV-TR: Best Practices—
Updated for 2009
Pamela H. Harmell, Ph.D.
Personality Disorders; Breaking Free of Managed Care; Proper Billing; Multi-Client Situations; Informed Consent.
| 8:15AM - 9:15AM |
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Conference Registration |
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| 9:15AM - 11:00AM |
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Keynote Presentation |
Silent Sons and Perfect Daughters: Appreciating Gender Differences in the Treatment of
Adolescents/Young Adults
Robert Ackerman, Ph.D.
This presentation will identify how families affect gender development and the relationship
between stereotypical gender identities. It will illustrate the application of emotional,
social and moral intelligences to overcoming stressful situations and the development of
resiliency skills.
| 11:15AM-12:45PM |
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Keynote Presentation |
Assessment of Risk, Self Destructive Behaviors and Suicidality
Patrick DeChello, Ph.D.
This presentation will enable clinicians to perform accurate and effective mental status
examinations, at risk and suicide assessments which lead to accurate diagnosis and treatment. Four major mental status assessment methods will provide the knowledge necessary to perform these assessments.
| 2:00PM - 3:30PM |
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Keynote Presentation |
Fathers’ Journey Through Disease, Recovery, and Loss
Robert Shapiro, J.D., David Smith M.D.
| 4:00PM - 5:30PM |
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Concurrent Workshops |
The Future of the Field: Emotional Intelligence and Addiction
Gabrielle Pelicci, Ph.D.
Emotional Intelligence (EQ) plays an integral role in addiction and relapse prevention. It
allows us to either respond reactively with an emotion that is outside our control and may
be inappropriate or self-defeating, or respond proactively with self-determined responsibility
and freedom of choice.
The Unholy Trinity: ADHD, Oppositional/Defiant and Conduct Disorder Personality—
Sorting it All Out
Patrick DeChello, Ph.D.
Recent research indicates that there is a direct connection and potential progression in
the etiological development of the Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders with the
Oppositional Defiant and the Conduct Disorder. This workshop offers practical “how
to” information and interventions.
Psycho Stimulant and Methamphetamine Abuse in Adolescent Girls and Young Women:
Exploring the Connection Between Abuse, Body Image and Eating Disorders
David Smith, MD
The growing patterns of abuse and addiction in this population will be identified and
explored as well as the relationship to appetite suppression and eating disorders.
Friday, March 27
| 9:00AM - 10:00AM |
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Keynote Presentation |
Going Home: A Positive Emotional Guide Toward Promoting Life—Generating Behaviors
Gregory Boothroyd, Ph.D.
The folly, betrayal and exhaustion of continuing multiple self-defeating behaviors will be
demonstrated.
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| 10:30AM - 11:30PM |
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Keynote Presentation |
Psychological Trauma in Adolescents: A Dissociative Structural Model
Colin Ross, MD
Severe psychological trauma often results in a wide range of comorbid disorders and
addictions. A dissociative structural model unifies all these separate DSM disorders into
a single framework, from which an integrated treatment plan follows. Diagnoses
accounted for by the model include: PTSD, dissociative disorders, borderline personality
disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, impulse control disorders, somatization disorder
and some subtypes of schizophrenia.
| 11:30AM - 12:30PM |
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Keynote Presentation |
Scientific Foundation of Rhythm as Therapeutic Intervention
Christine Stevens, MSW
Participants will learn the latest research on the applications of rhythm, music and
drumming to wellness and mental health as well as personally experience and participate
in creating this experience themselves.
| 1:45PM - 3:15PM |
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Concurrent Workshops |
Therapy for Eating Disorders: Towards a Trauma Model
Colin Ross, MD
Dr. Ross will explain how childhood sexual abuse can lead to restricting, bingeing, purging
and over-eating, and how the effects of sexual abuse overlap with and interact with
other motives for eating disorder behaviors.
Treatment of Co-Occurring Disorders in Female Adolescents
Fran Moore, MD
An overview of how adolescent girls differ with regard to origins, risk factors, physiology,
psychology and pattern of abuse and addiction and how these differences affect adolescent/
young adult treatment with regard to prevention, intervention and treatment.
Get Out of My Life, But First Can You Take Me to the Mall? Working with Resistant
Adolescents/Young Adults
Robert Ackerman, Ph.D.
Families under stress produce adolescents/young adults who are under stress. This is
especially true for families that experience alcohol and drug abuse problems, child abuse,
spouse abuse, divorce and other dysfunctional behaviors.This workshop will address the
emotional and behavioral impact on adolescents/young adults who become “high risk”
or “at risk” for a variety of problems.
The Inception and Maintenance of Self-Defeating Behaviors
Gregory Boothroyd, Ph.D.
Learn how and why life-affirming needs of joy, purpose and serenity get abandoned from
the soil banks of our lives and replaced with any number of self-defeating behaviors.
| 3:45PM - 5:15PM |
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Concurrent Workshops |
Twelve Sequential and Essential Steps for Promoting Life-Generating Behaviors
Gregory Boothroyd, Ph.D.
Learn twelve clear, concise and practical clinical techniques to assist in the replacement
of self-defeating behaviors with more life generating behaviors and attitudes.
Trauma Model Therapy for Adolescents and Young Adults
Colin Ross, MD
Trauma Model Therapy,developed for the treatment of adults with complex, chronic
trauma histories, applies equally as well to adolescents with trauma, attachment conflicts,
and multiple disorders and addictions. The core principles of TMT—the problem of
attachment to the perpetrator and the locus of control shift—will be explained.
Adolescent Treatment: From Intervention to Aftercare—Treating the Dually Diagnosed
Adolescent
John D. Lieberman
Issues dealing with Adolescent Treatment involving Dual Diagnosis issues will be
explored.
The Dark Side: Treating Clients who Self-Injure and Self-Harm
Patrick DeChello, Ph.D.
Often called the new age anorexia, self-injury is a silent epidemic. Because of its effect
on brain chemistry, self-injury is more than a maladaptive coping mechanism. This
workshop will provide leading edge information as to the nature, purpose, etiology and
treatments for these behaviors.
| 9:00AM - 10:30AM |
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Keynote Presentation |
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Adolescents and Co-Occurring Mental and Substance Use Disorders: Building Bridges in
Assessment and Treatment
David Mee-Lee, M.D.
This presentation is designed to examine dilemmas in assessment and treatment for adolescents and identify strategies that can help build bridges between mental health and
addiction treatment systems.
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| 11:00AM - 12:30PM |
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Keynote Presentation |
Development of the Social & Spiritual Brain in Adolescents and Young Adults
Cardwell Nuckols, Ph.D.
The trajectory of brain development from childhood through maturity allows for the
understanding of the social brain (prefrontal cortical areas) and the spiritual brain (right
cortical hemisphere). These areas prepare the adolescent and young adult for responsible
living as conscious, executive functioning, goal-directed behavior and ability to form
lasting connections with others and a God of one’s understanding come on line.
| 1:45PM - 3:15PM |
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Concurrent Workshops |
Engaging Adolescents in Client-Directed, Accountable Treatment: Changing Compliance
into Collaboration
David Mee-Lee, M.D.
Client hostility and resistance occur in many situations and make it hard to reach adolescents
and increase responsibility for and commitment to change. Using the structure
of stages of change, motivational interviewing and client-directed services, this workshop
will improve skills in engaging adolescents and their families and in building motivation
for change.
HealthRHYTHMS: Experience Self-Care as a Powerful Tool for Therapy
Christine Stevens, MSW
This will be an experiential, participatory drumming workshop on the application of
sound, pulse and rhythm to potential clinical settings and therapy.
The Science of Recovery: Applying Neuropsychology and Neuroscience to Your Practice
Cardwell Nuckols, Ph.D.
This workshop will examine genetic changes that take place in both addiction and recovery
and how “mirror” neurons assist in the creation of empathy and therapeutic relationships.
| 3:30PM - 5:00PM |
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Concurrent Workshops |
How to Develop Treatment Plans that Make Sense to Adolescents: Turning Paperwork
into Peoplework
David Mee-Lee, M.D.
Clinicians struggle with how to focus and target treatment, especially in fixed length-ofstay
programs; how to change old ways of documentation to reflect individualized treatment
and how to effectively engage the patient and client into a cooperative and
accountable treatment plan.
Working with the Angry Adolescent
Cardwell Nuckols, Ph.D.
This workshop will describe the latest scientific understanding of anger and aggression
placing emphasis on verbal management, behavioral and pharmacological stabilization
along with the demonstration of empirically proven clinical strategies.
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